In 2011, CIB’s John Harrison and Edward Spalton jointly authored an article entitled ‘Britain’s Exit from the EU (in its present form) is now almost certain.’ Looking back at that article now, not only were we right about Britain’s exit from […]
Q: Just say it is late 2018. Britain and the EU have just agreed a Withdrawal Agreement (WA) with us largely under EU control until 2021, losing existing voting power. The future relationship declaration is non-committal. Would there be a […]
This summary of the failings of our most recent Prime Ministers was sent to us by a colleague. Amongst the confusion, argument, and downright deceit going on around Brexit at the moment it is, perhaps, time to reflect on the […]
Photo credit: Ryan Rayburn / IMF At a church conference in Novi Sad, Serbia, Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, made the following extraordinary statement: “The EU has been the greatest dream realised for human beings since the fall of […]
Because of my work, it was the European Common Agricultural Policy which puzzled me from 1972 onwards. The whole thing was so utterly strange in comparison to the common sense system we had before. It was not until 2002 when […]
This letter from our Chairman appeared in the Derby Telegraph Sir, Like Percy Brown (7 March), I found a certain humour in the idiocies of the European Common Agricultural Policy which created the wine lakes, beef, butter and grain mountains. […]
