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{{infobox person
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| birth_name = Rodney Eric Bainbridge Atkinson
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'''Rodney Eric Bainbridge Atkinson''' (born
==Professional career==
Atkinson studied German at [[Newcastle University]] (BA Hons with distinction in spoken German) and at [[Durham University]], where he earned an [[MSc]] in management studies in 1978 as a member of [[Collingwood College, Durham|Collingwood College]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Durham University gazette, XXIV (ns) including supplement|url=http://reed.dur.ac.uk/xtf/view?docId=bookreader/DU_Gazettes/DUGazette24/dg24METS.xml;query=rodney%20atkinson;brand=default#page/74/mode/2up|publisher=Durham University|accessdate=13 March 2018}}</ref> 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]]<ref>
He runs his own commercial property business based in the North East of England. 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.
==Politics==
Atkinson founded The Campaign for United Kingdom Conservatism in 1994 and co-founded, with Lynn Riley, the cross-party South Molton Declaration in 1999 (re-launched as the British Declaration of Independence for the [[2005 United Kingdom general election|2005 general election]]). He founded the Freenations (freenations.net) website in 1997. He was the [[Referendum Party]] candidate in [[North West Durham (UK Parliament constituency)|North West Durham]] in the [[1997 United Kingdom general election|1997 general election]] (5.2%) and the lead [[UK Independence Party]] (UKIP) candidate for the [[North East England (European Parliament constituency)|North East Region]] in the [[1999 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom|1999 European Elections]] (8.8%).
In 2000, he lost the UKIP leadership election, by 16 votes, to [[Jeffrey Titford]] [[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]. Atkinson left UKIP shortly afterwards, along with 200 supporters, accusing the then party chairman [[Nigel Farage]] MEP and the
With [[Norris McWhirter]], he laid [[misprision of treason]] charges against [[Francis Maude]] and [[Douglas Hurd]] for signing the [[Maastricht Treaty]].<ref name=TFA>[http://www.tfa.net The Freedom Association] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202072646/http://www.tfa.net/the_freedom_association/norris-mcwhirter-cbe.html |date=2 December 2008 }}</ref> The allegations were dismissed by the Crown Prosecution Service in October 1993, according to a written answer given by the [[Attorney General for England and Wales|Attorney General]], [[Nicholas Lyell]], on 28 October 1993.<ref>[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1993/oct/28/treason-allegation#S6CV0230P0_19931028_CWA_10 Hansard, House of Commons 28 October 1993 vol 230 cc707-8W]</ref>
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*"Corporatism and the end of traditional capitalism", ''UK Conservatism'' website, 16 May 2002
*"Who are the real Fascists in Europe?", ''Freedom Today'', March 2003
*"Germany, Iraq and the European Union", ''The Philadelphia Trumpet'', May 2003
*"Obituary" contribution for Norris McWhirter, ''Times Online'', 30 April 2004
*"Bean Blackadder and the European Union", ''The Salisbury Review'', December 2004
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