Rodney Eric Bainbridge Atkinson (born 18 February 1947) is a British academic, political and economic commentator, journalist, author and businessman.
[1] He was formerly a lecturer at the University of Mainz from 1971 to 1977, and worked as a merchant banker in the City of London with Banque Paribas and Grindlays Bank[2] and has been an occasional adviser to government ministers since 1981.
His 23 year old website freenations.net contains over 400 articles on political economy, Nationism, geopolitics and the campaign for withdrawal of the UK from the European Union.
Atkinson left UKIP shortly afterwards, along with 200 supporters, accusing the then party chairman Nigel Farage MEP and the Eurosceptic journalist Christopher Booker of conducting a "dirty tricks" campaign against him.
[3] With Norris McWhirter, he laid misprision of treason charges against Francis Maude and Douglas Hurd for signing the Maastricht Treaty.