Zac Goldsmith

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Zac Goldsmith

Election date
on or before 3 June 2010
Opponent(s)
Incumbent Susan Kramer
Born 20 January 1975 (1975-01-20) (age 34)
Westminster, London, England
Political party Conservative
Spouse(s) Sheherazade Goldsmith (m. 1999)
Occupation Environmental activist
Website zacgoldsmith.com

Frank Zacharias "Zac" Robin Goldsmith (born 20 January 1975) is an English environmentalist, socialite, and a Conservative parliamentary candidate.

Goldsmith is one of the heirs to the wealth of his father, the late billionaire financier, James Goldsmith.[1] From 1998 to 2007, he was editor of The Ecologist magazine, which was founded by his father's brother, Edward Goldsmith. During this time, he also became a London campaigner and media commentator regarding environmental issues. He is currently the Ecologist's chairman. He and his wife, author Sheherazade Goldsmith, run a small organic farmhouse in Devon, and have invested in various organic food businesses.

Goldsmith publicly joined the Conservative Party in 2005.[2] The same year, he was appointed deputy chairman of the Conservative Quality of Life Policy Group, which published its policy recommendations, called the Blueprint for a Green Economy, on 13 September 2007. He was placed on the party's so-called A-List of prospective parliamentary candidates by Opposition Leader David Cameron in 2006.[3] Through an open caucus in March 2007, Goldsmith was selected to contest the constituency of Richmond Park against the incumbent, Liberal Democrat Susan Kramer, in the 2010 general election.[4]

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[edit] Early life and career

Born at Westminster Hospital in London, Goldsmith is the middle child of Sir James Goldsmith and his third wife, Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart. His parents were both married to other people when he was born,[5] but in 1978, they married each other to legitimize their children.[6] Goldsmith was raised at Ormeley Lodge in Ham with his siblings, Jemima and Ben, a businessman. He has five paternal half-siblings,[7] and is also half-brother to Robin and India Jane Birley, his mother’s children from her first marriage to Mark Birley.[8] His father, who was known to maintain polyamorous relationships,[5] moved to New York in 1981 with his French girlfriend and was henceforth a rare presence in Goldsmith's childhood.[2]

Goldsmith received early education at Richmond's King's House School and The Mall School in Twickenham. At the age of nine, he attended Hawtreys.[6] He enrolled at Eton College but was expelled at 16 when marijuana was discovered in his room.[9] He earned four A Levels from the Cambridge Centre for Sixth-form Studies before leaving England to travel abroad.[10] As a child, Goldsmith was an avid reader of Gerald Durrell's work[9] and had a self-described obsession with Sir David Attenborough's wildlife programmes.[11] He later recalled, "[Attenborough] was my hero, and it was his work that made me fall in love with the natural world."[12] His ecological interests were further nourished when his father gave him a copy of Helena Norberg-Hodge's book Ancient Futures, with a note saying, "This will change your life."[10]

After school, he traveled with the International Honors Program, affiliated with his uncle, Edward Goldsmith, through New Zealand, Mexico, Hungary, Italy, Thailand, and worked in the United States and India. Goldsmith lived in California for two years, working first for an organization called Redefining Progress from 1995 to 1996 and later as a researcher for Helena Norberg-Hodge's International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC) during 1996-98.[13] While working with ISEC, Goldsmith traveled to India. He spent a short time on an ashram in Rajasthan and lived in Ladakh for six months, studying traditional cultures and helping run a tourist education program.[14][15] He continues to serve as ISEC's associate director.[16][17]

[edit] Editor of The Ecologist, 1998-2007

Under the editorial management of ISEC and his uncle Teddy, in 1997, Goldsmith was appointed reviews editor of The Ecologist.[18][19] In 1998, he became editor-in-chief and director of The Ecologist, but didn't draw a salary.[10] On 28 March 2000, the magazine was relaunched with a new format and design.[10] He toned down the academic character of the publication in an attempt to make it accessible to a wider audience, but was unable to expand it beyond a worldwide circulation of less than 25,000.[10] In 2001, Goldsmith presented The Ecologist's first 'Environmental Steward of the Year' award to United States President George W. Bush."[20] He said, "It's not because I like Bush - I loathe him and see him as a criminal - but because he has single-handedly put the environment at the top of the global agenda."

Goldsmith launch the magazine's international editions in French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese,[21] and announced future plans of a US version.[11] He also gained media exposure by giving press interviews regarding special topics featured in the magazine's latest issues.[12] In his own writings in the Ecologist and other magazines, Goldsmith has sharply criticized Al Gore, whose Green "track record is hopeless" according to him,[22] and Bill Gates. He is an admirer of Sir David Attenborough and Prince Charles. "Attenborough is, more than anyone else, ever, responsible for making millions of people fall in love with the natural world," he has said.[23]

In January 2006, after indicating his interest in electoral politics, he announced that he would "step back" to let the magazine become more independent of him.[24] The magazine accumulated losses of £232,390 in 2006.[25] Goldsmith resigned as the The Ecologist's editor in June 2007, saying, "The magazine has to remain impartial and feel free to have a go at the Government and at the Conservatives. So I can't both be the editor and a parliamentary candidate." He remains the chairman and director of the The Ecologist.[26]

[edit] Monsanto conflict

In September 1998, with Goldsmith at the helm, The Ecologist critically covered the alleged anti-environmental record of the multinational genetic engineering company Monsanto Company, including a broadside against genetically engineered foods written by Charles, Prince of Wales.[27] The magazine's printing firm, Penwells of Saltash Cornwall, feared libel litigation from Monsanto and pulped the 14,000 copies of the edition.[28] Goldsmith reacted by stating: "We are shocked and amazed. We have a long history of being forthright about environmental issues and attacking powerful organisations, yet not once in 29 years has this printer complained about or expressed the slightest qualms about what we were doing."[27] Monsanto expressed ignorance and surprise over the printer's actions, and denied the assumption that the company might have pressured Penwells to silence the condemning coverage. The edition was eventually printed by a small London printer - whose name was not disclosed - and went on to become the biggest-selling issue of the magazine ever.[29] Immediately after the controversy, the UK's two leading magazine distributors, W H Smith and Menzies Distribution, refused to carry The Ecologist, but WH Smith has since resumed stocking the title.[30]

[edit] Activism and investments

Goldsmith sits on the advisory board of the JMG Foundation, which disburses grants globally to a range of environmental advocacy groups using the fortune left by James Goldsmith.[16] His investments, most of which have incurred financial losses,[25] are run by a Cayman Islands-based company called Organic Investments Limited.[31] He is a shareholder in the Chelsea farmers' market[32] and has helped finance a fledgling Chelsea food store, the Organic Warehouse.[33] He was also a founding donor and backer of a now-defunct British newspaper, The Sportsman, which was published shortly for seven months in 2006. Goldsmith is currently President of the National Gardens Scheme[34] and a trustee of the Royal Parks Foundation.[35] He is also a patron of: the Manuka Club, a donor network founded by his brother Ben to finance campaigns that oppose industrial development in the British countryside;[36] the Mihai Eminescu Trust, that conserves and maintains communities in Transylvania and the Maramures;[37] and the Fortune Forum, a philanthropic organisation.[38]

Sir Stirling Moss, Goldsmith and HRH Prince Charles at the launch of the annual Revolve Eco-Rally on 3 June 2007.

In November 2002, Goldsmith helped establish FARM, a campaigning organisation for British farmers. At its launch, he said, "The NFU has been dominant for longer than 50 years ... the fact is it has presided over the collapse of British farming."[39] In 2007, he opposed the opening of a huge branch of the supermarket Sainsbury's in Barnes. He proposed and then funded a referendum organised by the Electoral Reform Society to poll local residents on the issue. With a turnout of 61.6%, more than 4,000 residents, who made up 85% of the votes cast, came forward to oppose the construction of Sainsbury's at White Hart Lane. Sainsbury's, though, successfully pursued its plan,[40] prompting Goldsmith to assert, "This decision has been imposed on an unwilling population." [41] Goldsmith also funded the Organic Targets Bill Campaign to promote organic farming in 1999.[42] He is a longstanding donor of the Soil Association. In 2007, he was a participant at the Soil Association Annual Conference, during which he compered an organic fashion show on 25 January[43] and debated on a Question Time panel on 27 January.[44] In 2008, Goldsmith strongly criticized the government's plan to extend water fluoridation, questioning its right to mass-medicate the public, and linking fluoride to cot death, eczema and cancer.[45]

Goldsmith speaks and writes abott environmental causes in Britain, which includes debating twice at the Oxford Union and delivering keynote addresses.[46][47][48] He has written opinion articles for newspapers in the UK including The Daily Mail,[49] The Evening Standard,[50] The Observer,[51] and The Telegraph.[52][53] He is also a contributor to magazines such as the New Statesman[54] and the members-only Quintessentially Magazine.[55] In 2003, Goldsmith was awarded the Beacon Prize for Young Philanthropist of the Year for his contribution to environmental awareness and protection.[42] In 2004, he received the Mikhail Gorbachev's Global Green Award for International Environmental Leadership.[56]

Zac Goldsmith was one of the contributors for writing the book, We Are One: A Celebration of Tribal Peoples, released in October 2009.[57] The book explores the culture of peoples around the world, portraying both its diversity and the threats it faces. Among other contributors, we can find several western writers, such as Laurens van der Post, Noam Chomsky, Claude Levi-Strauss; and also indigenous peoples, such as Davi Kopenawa Yanomami and Roy Sesana. The book is composed by a collection of photographs, statements from tribal people, and essays from international authors, campaigners, politicians, philosophers, poets, artists, journalists, anthropologists, environmentalists and photojournalists. In his essay, Goldsmith talks about how his travel through the world in his youth gave him a first-hand experience with the misery brought by the promise of western "progress" and "development". He reflects on the culture of these people and, in reverence to it, urges people in the modern world to question what "progress" can really mean.[58] The royalties from the sale of this book go to the indigenous rights organization, Survival International.

[edit] Political career

Goldsmith is currently the Conservative parliamentary candidate for the constituency of Richmond Park. He publicly joined the Conservative party during its annual conference on 5 October 2005, where he stated, "A Conservative who is not also in his heart an environmentalist cannot legitimately be described as a Conservative."[59] He claims that he joined the party because he believes New Labour is increasingly associated with big business[2] and is too authoritarian and centrist.[11] The Green party, on the other hand, he has stated is "not really a serious party.."[32] In May 2006, he was one of the prospective parliamentary candidates featured on David Cameron's A-List.[11] Since then, though, Cameron has sought to distance himself from Goldsmith's brand of environmentalism. In 2008, Cameron said of Goldsmith's advisory role, "We have a lot of people on the environmental team and [Goldsmith]'s one of many. He doesn't overpromote himself but I think sometimes people attach an enormous amount to him."[60]

His familial links to politics include his grandfathers, who were both Conservative members of parliament; Frank Goldsmith was a Conservative MP and the 8th Marquess of Londonderry represented County Down as a member of Northern Ireland's Ulster Unionist Party. His half-brother, Robin Birley, has also been a longstanding financial contributor of the party. Before 2005, Goldsmith supported and was involved in the campaigns of Michael Gove MP and Joanne Cash.[48] As part of the Conservative party, in 2006, he said:

“ If you had asked me six years ago would I want to be part of the Conservative Party I would have said no. I am cynical about politicians. My experience of politicians has been thoroughly negative. I have found that politicians are people that can not be taken at face value. There are very few politicians I have been impressed with.[2] ”

On 16 March 2007, Goldsmith won an open caucus, conducted by the Richmond Park Conservative Association,[48] to become the Conservative challenger for incumbent Susan Kramer's parliamentary seat. He had originally planned to stand in East Hampshire, a safe Conservative seat, but he changed his mind. "I just didn't know East Hampshire... I would have had to get worked up about issues that I didn't care about. The whole thing was so artificial. I wrote to them telling them I couldn't do it," he later explained.[61] Richmond Park ranks as the Conservatives' 65th target seat, requiring a swing of 3.6 per cent to overturn the 3,613 Liberal Democrat majority.[62]

[edit] Policy positions

In April 2005, Goldsmith claimed that if he was Prime Minister, he would "introduce direct democracy... which means that ordinary people can call a referendum on any subject they want, providing they can gather enough signatures."[63] Campaigning for the parliamentary seat of Richmond Park, he has talked about reforming local schools. He told the People Tree Spring 2008 catalogue: "I've put a big emphasis on schools. One campaign is to ensure every school - there are 47 - is fitted with a proper kitchen that can double up as a classroom. Children need to know where their food comes from and how to cook it. We're also trying to help every school source its food sustainably and locally."[64] Goldsmith is an opponent of globalisation and has been a vocal supporter of the Euro-sceptic views that were the mainstay of his father's politics.[2] In a 2001 editorial entitled "Cowards one and all," he claimed that all three of the major British political parties were corporation-friendly and unwilling to tackle what he perceives are the dangers of globalisation.[65] He has explained his Euro-sceptic stance thus: "Europe is a decision-making machine that has grown far too big. We have no access to the decision-makers, we don't even know who they are. We do need to work globally to counter major issues like climate change, but the EU is not solving problems... Laws that should be made at the local level are tumbling out of Brussels, and are literally killing our small producers."[17] He is a supporter of the Democracy Movement and an advisory board member of The European Foundation, a London-based Eurorealist think tank that seeks to renegotiate the treaties of Maastricht, Amsterdam and Nice.[66]

Goldsmith is a pro-hunting advocate. He has proposed a "heavy purchase tax" for highly polluting automobiles[61] and is an advocate of a levy on aviation fuel, particularly on cargo planes.[67] He believes that nuclear power is an inefficient power source, and that without subsidies, the industry would cease to exist. One of his main objections to expanding the use of nuclear power reactors in Britain is their increased vulnerability to a possible missile attack and the example they set for unstable regimes rushing into nuclear power programmes.[67] "Nuclear power can only ever contribute 18 per cent of our energy needs, so attention on it is exaggerated. With a very light touch, by being more careful about what we use, energy consumption can be improved across the board by 33 per cent - so that's nearly twice what nuclear can do," he has claimed.[29] He has also supported the Forests Now Declaration, calling for new market-based mechanisms to protect forests. He is a critic of supermarkets, having called the industry "just a mess, a disaster, but more than that, it's soul destroying."[9]

[edit] Quality of Life Policy Group

In December 2005, David Cameron appointed Goldsmith as the deputy chairman, under former environment secretary John Gummer, of a Quality of Life Policy Group.[11] The commission was entrusted with the responsibility of examining carbon emissions and other quality-of-life issues such as climate change, clean air and transport, and to offer policy ideas based on the review.[68] The group's 600-page report, co-authored by Goldsmith and Gummer, was published at the Royal Institute of British Architects on 13 September 2007. It was touted as a detailed blueprint for the creation of a "green economy", but the conclusions were not binding. Goldsmith said, "I'd be happy if only half of it was accepted."[69]

The recommendations of the policy group included: higher taxes on short-haul flights and gas-guzzling cars; power station waste heat levy; rebates on stamp duty; a moratorium on airport expansions and curbs on energy-wasting household goods; disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions in large listed business's financial reporting; feed-in tariffs for small-scale low carbon technologies; a clampdown on energy-wasting stand-by lights; and a cap on energy use by domestic appliances.[70] A report published by the committee in October 2006 came out in favor of imposing carbon taxation.[71]

Besides opposition from the Labour Party, some of these proposals were criticised by the aviation industry and even a few Conservative politicians. Roger Helmer, a Conservative MEP, described the proposals as "half-baked", adding that, "The whole approach is anti-Conservative."[72] Conservative MP David Wilshire, whose constituency borders Heathrow, opposed the restriction on expansion of airports and said, "You can't fiddle about with aviation and make gestures, price people out of flying and make it an elitist activity for the wealthy."[73] Cameron stated, "It is a very good report and there is much of it that we will include in our manifesto."[70] Journalist Macer Hall commented in the Daily Express:

“ Goldsmith seeks to remove the ethical dimension – the exercise of free choice – from daily household decisions. Tories of his ilk seem to have stolen from socialism the idea that the tax system should be used to change human behaviour rather than being a necessary evil for funding essentials such as defence and policing.[74] ”

Hall further claimed that Goldsmith's ideology "would penalise ordinary people."

[edit] Criticism and controversy

Goldsmith's inherited wealth has been portrayed as a political liability by critics, with many commentators accusing him of being an out-of-touch elite.[74] He has countered by stating, "I don't need to have a career in politics. I'm in a very, very luxurious position, but I am in a position of strength."[2] A BBC press release about one of his televised interview appearances introduced him as someone whose "detractors say he's a spoilt rich kid indulging a romantic personal obsession that has little to offer the real world".[9] Goldsmith claims that while he might be "easy to dismiss", he is not a playboy or a "hooray". "I wouldn't reverse anything that has happened to me in terms of my life or my background, because I totally depend on it. The fact is that if I didn't have all that, if I was just the editor of The Ecologist, then The Ecologist would not be growing, because I wouldn't have the kind of platforms that I have," he stated in 2003.

In 2008, Goldsmith was embroiled in a breach of electoral rules after he donated £7,000 to his local party while he was not on the electoral roll, which is in violation of standard campaign rules. Goldsmith, who spent £90,000 of his personal fortune to finance his parliamentary campaign in 2007, defended himself by explaining, "For a few weeks last year I was not on the electoral roll, as I had removed myself from Kensington and Chelsea and was in the process of signing up in Richmond. Whatever was donated in that time may have to be repaid, but there is no suggestion that it was anything other than an oversight."[75]

In late 2009, it was revealed in The Times that Goldsmith claims non-domiciled status, despite living in London, to avoid paying UK tax on his £200m fortune.[76] It was also reported that he owns several of his UK properties via offshore holding companies, again to avoid paying tax in Britain. [76] For example, The Daily Telegraph claimed that Goldsmith does not own the 300-acre ecological farm in Devon nor house in Richmond that he uses, but rather these assets are part of the portfolio of a trust in the Cayman Islands of which Goldsmith is a discretionary beneficiary. Goldsmith's tax status came under criticism from other politicians. For example Liberal Democrat treasury spokesperson Matthew Oakeshott stated:

“ He’s not fit to sit in parliament, when he’s claimed non-dom status all his life to keep his offshore hundreds of millions free of income, capital gains or inheritance tax...He must pay the millions he’s dodged to the British taxman."[77][78] ”

In a statement, Goldsmith said "Virtually all my income comes to the UK, where I pay full tax on it." [78]

[edit] Family and personal life

Goldsmith married Sharon "Sheherazade" Ventura-Bentley on 5 June 1999 at St Simon Zelotes church in Knightsbridge. The wedding was followed by a reception at The Ritz and a dance at Ormeley Lodge.[21] The couple have two daughters and a son. Goldsmith has stated that his children will not feature in campaign literature. The family divides its time between Richmond and Devon. The family owns a Maine coon cat and two dogs, a mongrel and an Irish wolfhound.[79][80] The Goldsmiths grow seasonal produce on their 300-acre (1.2 km2) eco-farm in Devon, where they have a vegetable garden, apple trees, a wildlife pond, and keep cows, pigs, sheep, chickens and three herds of Dartmoor ponies.[81]

Goldsmith is described by his mother and reporters to be of a gentle nature.[9] His early girlfriends included Tara Palmer-Tomkinson and Caroline Hickman.[82] He has been a cigarette smoker since the age of 14.[29] He is also an enthusiast of poker, which he plays at the Aspinall's club once a week with family friends.[9] He claims to mostly wear recycled Saville Row suits that belonged to his late father.[10] He was featured in Vanity Fair's 67th and 69th Annual International Best-Dressed Lists.[83] About British media, including the press garnered by his sister's former partner, Hugh Grant, he once said, "I don’t think the coverage I get is that negative... I think the British press has got a lot to answer for generally. I take everything I read with pinch of salt and just assume most of what I read isn’t true. As for Hugh [Grant], to talk about him is a minefield because it can so easily become a headline."[84]

In September 2006, the Sunday Mirror reported that Goldsmith had been having an affair with Alice Rothschild (then aged 22), the daughter of Amschel Mayor James Rothschild; whose sister Kate is married to his brother Ben Goldsmith.[85] On 4 April 2009, the Telegraph reported that there was growing concern in the upper echelons of the Conservative party that "the private life of the dashing environmentalist may play an unwelcome part in the general election". Goldsmith, whose close friendship with Alice Rothschild, has been the subject of a tabloid newspaper "exposé", has been strongly advised that any conflict in his love life must be resolved before he reaches Westminster. On 29 August 2009, the Goldsmiths announced they had separated and intended to divorce. According to the Mail on Sunday reporter Katie Nicholl, "the couple have been living in separate homes since January when the paper was told that their marriage was in serious trouble."[86]

Goldsmith's wealth is estimated at £300m.[87]

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