Robert Oulds and Mary Ellen

Robert Oulds is the Director of the Bruges Group and the author of Everything you wanted to know about the EU: But were afraid to ask

Robert heads up the Bruges Group, the think tank that headed up the movement for the UK to leave the EU.

The Bruges Group is an independent all-party think tank. Set up in 1989, its founding purpose was to resist the encroachments of the European Union on our democratic self-government. The Bruges Group spearheaded the intellectual battle to win a vote to leave the European Union and against the emergence of a centralised EU state. With personal freedom at its core, its formation was inspired by the speech of Margaret Thatcher in Bruges in September 1988 where the Prime Minister stated,

“We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the State in Britain only to see them re-imposed at a European level.”

We now face a more insidious and profound challenge to our liberties – the rising tide of intolerance. The Bruges Group challenges false and damaging orthodoxies that suppress debate and incite enmity. It will continue to direct Britain’s role in the world, act as a voice for the Union, and promote our historic liberty, democracy, transparency, and rights. It spearheads the resistance to attacks on free speech and provides a voice for those who value our freedoms and way of life.

I catchup with Robert for his views, reflections on our recent UK election.

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Larry Nichols went from a Bill Clinton staffer in the Arkansas governor's office to a Clinton enemy, leading to a long but ultimately successful journey of 28 years taking down the Clintons. Nichols worked under the Arkansas Development Finance Authority, a creation of Clinton that Nichols says was actually “a place to funnel money into Clinton's campaigns” and help his friends. Nichols discovered the ADFA was being used to launder money in an operation that brought $100 MILLION OF COCAINE a month from Nicaragua to Mena, Arkansas. Nichols confronted Clinton about it when he found out, fearing he would take the fall when the operation was discovered. The result was that Clinton tried to frame and defame Nichols himself. Nichols swore he would take down the Clintons and did so by following a divine message: “Tell the truth about the Clintons; tell the truth about yourself.” Nichols describes a few of the mysterious deaths incurred by Clinton opponents, how the Clinton camp intimidated and and smeared opponents in his path in Washington and used the media to discredit opponents. He also describes how he exposed Clinton's affairs and got impeachment proceedings against him. His efforts were renewed in earnest after Hillary Clinton ran for president–something he says he knew to be her plan while Bill was still in office. Nichols describes himself as a breaker of all Ten Commandments yet experienced an unlikely journey of faith where his motivations of revenge became outweighed by his desire to save America from being sold out the way Arkansas was. Nichols ends the book by appealing to Americans to support President Trump and disbelieve mainstream media.