Beware of the UK Media


Beware of the UK Media - The truth behind who’s interest they represent.

I guess, if the media was owned by the socialist FAR LEFT, we would be up in arms about their motives.  But in our free speech capitalist society we have arrived at the following ownerships:-

  Paper           Ownership   Largest shareholder     Forbes estimated wealth
   1.   The Times    News Corp   Sir Rupert Murdoch                             £14bn  
   2.  The Sun       ditto
   3.   The Telegraph Press Holdings-Sir Dave & Sir Freddy Barclay          £4bn
NB Press Holdings are a Jersey based company and do not pay UK tax.
   4.   Daily Mail     DM & General-Viscount Jonathon Hamsworth            £2bn
   5.   Daily Express Reach Inc      Investment & pension funds             n/a
   6.   Daily Mirror  ditto
   7.   Guardian     Scott Trust Ltd Trust fund  no owners or dividends  n/a
   8.   Observer      ditto

Therefore the 4 biggest selling newspapers are owned by billionaires with an estimated combined wealth of £20bn.  And, on top of that, The Barclays brothers have registered the Telegraph in Jersey to evade paying UK tax.

Now, let us consider what these 4 men are likely to favour.  Would it be helping the poorest of the poor, and the refugees?  Or is it more likely that they would favour helping the wealthy to protect and increase their wealth?   This question is key when trying to understand what determines their political agenda.

We also see today that they are trying to get us back to work as quickly as possible, having backed Boris with his disastrous decision to delay lockdown.  So now the UK faces not only the worst death rate in Europe at present, but it will only be exasperated by the rush back to work.

You will also see a very limited coverage of why the UK Government of 2017/8 did not adopt ANY of the NHS pandemic AUDIT recommendations.  Apparently, this bunch decided that 750,000 deaths was an unfortunate price to pay.  Compare this to the response in Germany and many Asian countries where they said that such high casualties were too high a price, and so they invested in PPE, hospitals, testing kits and other vital support structures.  It is all why the publication of the report is being suppressed.

No doubt they will be scanning through Sir Kier Starmer’s past, compiling the dossier for the next election to ensure that he, like Jeremy Corbyn, gets an absolute shafting.  The UK cannot be allowed to have a socialist leader as he might ask the very RICH to pay their taxes, and stop them from hiding their colossal wealth off-shore and in Tax evading Trust funds,

No wonder we cannot afford a properly funded NHS.  But hey-ho we shall all go out and clap on Thursday evenings, but for most of us that is all we would want to give those NHS heroes.

Wouldn’t it be nice, if people thought about the motives of the owners in a more discerning way, before deciding what is right and what is wrong?                                        

Love and Peace

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