About the Author

Ashley Mote is a semi-retired businessman and award-winning author, with a special interest in constitutional history. He ran his own international marketing company for over 20
years.

Nowadays, he is an occasional columnist and broadcaster, scriptwriter, the author of several non-fiction books, and an active campaigner to free the United Kingdom from EU interference.

He was the author of the petition signed by 28 peers of the realm and presented to HM The Queen at Buckingham Palace in March 2001. The petition was raised under the terms of Clause 61 of Magna Carta and petitioned Her Majesty to withhold the Royal Assent from any Bill seeking to ratify the EU's Treaty of Nice.

The idea for a new national Declaration of Independence, which the Freedom Association is launching in autumn 2002, emerged from Ashley Mote's work on the peers' petition.

More recently, he has directed two video programmes for the Sanity group, which is dedicated to improving public awareness of the true nature of the European Union. The first was concerned with the structure and operation of the EU itself. The second dealt with the possibility of Britain joining the eurozone. Thousands of copies are already in circulation despite a media blackout.

Ashley Mote won the Cricket Society Literary Award (Cricket Book of the Year) in 1997 for his definitive history of the origins of the game - The Glory Days of Cricket. His script Working in the Middle East won the Gold Award for Best Script at the Multi-media International Convention, Philadelphia, 1982. The production itself also won the Gold Award for Best Presentation.