Robert Oulds is the Director of the Bruges Group, an independent all-party think tank. Oulds himself describes the Bruges Group as a "leading Eurosceptic cross-party think-tank aiming to reform the European Union and end the drive towards the single European State." Oulds has been a Conservative Councilor in Chiswick since 2002 and an international political analyst, analyzing and opposing the EU.

Paulson & Co., Inc. is a hedge fund management company that was established in 1994 by CEO John Paulson. It is one of the top five hedge fund management groups in the world and has seen great success since its founding, mostly via selling short on business ventures that they determine to be unstable or a likely candidate for default. It has profited exponentially from the US housing crisis. As the number of foreclosures increased, Paulson's profits increased.

Perhaps the hallmark of Western civilization over the past five hundred years, writes A. C. Grayling , is the series of liberation struggles without which the ordinary citizen in Western countries would not enjoy the rights and freedoms we now take for granted.