CIB affiliated organisation the Labour Euro Safeguards Campaign (LESC) has published its latest bulletin, which focuses on the upcoming general election and Labour’s manifesto promise to hold a second referendum. We reproduce here part of the bulletin, which asks what kind […]
CIB chairman Edward Spalton discusses a little-known fact of our EU membership: that it led to the use of private finance initiatives to fund (and profit from) public services, including NHS hospitals. This ‘Enronomics’ approach to public finances may have […]
The forthcoming general election will feature two high-profile pro-independence parties competing for your votes – the Conservative Party and the Brexit Party. Our chairman Edward Spalton reflects on CIB’s long-standing status as a cross-party organisation, and our continued hope for […]
Philip Benwell MBE, Chairman of the Australian Monarchist League, offers a view from Australia on the damage done to the British parliamentary system by the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011. Australia is a country where the royal prerogative powers, exercised by […]
CIB affiliated organisation the Labour Euro Safeguards Campaign has published its September bulletin, which can be downloaded at the end of this article. We reproduce here part of the bulletin, which analyses the current dilemma facing the Labour Party on […]
For those in want of some holiday reading, CIB Chairman Edward Spalton reflects on Daphne du Maurier’s 1972 novel Rule Britannia. Did the ideas it contained shape British thinking on the EEC and its subsequent incarnations? A longer version of […]
