Campaign for an Independent Britain
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The Campaign for an Independent Britain (CIB) is a cross-party Eurosceptic campaign group which calls for the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union.
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[edit] Origins
The CIB has its roots partly in the Safeguard Britain Campaign (founded in 1976), which became the Anti-Common Market League (ACML) in 1983. In 1989 the ACML pooled its campaigning resources with several other eurosceptic groups including the trade union-based Campaign Against Euro Federalism (CAEF) to create the Campaign for an Independent Britain. It now claims up to 3,400 individual members.
The different groups came from various ideological perspectives and the CIB is proud of its all-party status. Its management committee has traditionally included members of all three major parties in the United Kingdom.
[edit] People
Sir Richard Body, a former Conservative MP, is president of the group. Sir Teddy Taylor, is a vice-president. The group's Chairman is the UK Independence MP Bob Spink, who succeeded Lord Stoddart of Swindon in June 2007. Lord Shore (formerly the Labour minister Peter Shore) helped run the CIB for many years until his death.
[edit] Collaboration
The CIB collaborates with the Labour Euro-Safeguards Campaign (LESC) in the "production of bulletins aimed at those in the Labour movement who are concerned about the effects of moves towards a federal Europe."
