Charles Bennett is a former British Army Officer and ex-Police Inspector (in Zimbabwe) with a background in internal security operations and training in Africa and Northern Ireland.
He has also had a varied career in several fields including civilian security and other commercial management and consultancy in Africa and in London; political research and analysis, mainly Northern Ireland related; ‘post-conflict’ re-construction in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Kosovo (including Counter-Narcotics and Electoral work), and other work in Africa, Greece and the Middle East.
He has a History Degree (BA (Hons) 2:1) from the School of Oriental & African Studies (University of London) gained as a mature student – 1993-96. He married Diana, a farmer's daughter from West Tyrone, in 2002, but unfortunately she suffered from a form of cancer soon afterwards with the result that they have no children.
A full professional profile is visible on 'LinkedIn' at:
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/charlesanselmbennett
Charles Bennett - a statement:
Although I have only recently joined UKIP I have long supported its principles; my earliest political act, as a schoolboy, was to write to Enoch Powell thanking him for his stand against Edward Heath's devious, deceitful, and treacherous tricking of the British people into joining the so-called 'Common Market'! I have been impressed by UKIP's recent successes and also by the broad range of people it is gaining support from, and am thoroughly in favour of its strongly anti-racialist and anti-sectarian but genuinely pro-British stance. I have no faith whatsoever in the 'Conservatives' (they no longer deserve the name) or any other party ever taking an effective and realistic approach to the proto-United States of Europe, which is what it is, as they cannot even be honest enough to admit to what they have allowed to happen, are allowing to happen, and will undoubtedly continue to allow. The idea of 'reforming' the EU to suit the UK's wishes would be laughable if it was not such a serious matter; the Federalist agenda is, and always has been, at the heart of the whole bizarre state-socialist project, albeit often hidden so as not to alert ordinary people to what they were being slowly sucked into. It is a structure that manages to combine the oppressive bureaucracy, all powerful unelected self-selected 'party elite', and many other iniquitous elements of Communism (as many Eastern Europeans are becoming aware) with the Nazis' plans for a 'United Europe'; quite something for a political idea to share Stalin and Hitler as its forefathers! The idea that the CM/EEC/EU 'prevented war in Europe' is a dishonest and ludicrous one; the only organization that did that was NATO, which would have been virtually useless as a European grouping without American and Canadian involvement. It is time for ordinary people to stand up for themselves and stop being deluded and betrayed by smug, self-serving, spineless, and often corrupt politicians from the cosy introverted parties that have kept a grip on power in Britain. The Conservatives, Labour, and the Liberal Democrats have all abandoned whatever principles they had and are only interested in power for its own sake - ironically when they get it they proceed to hand it over to Brussels, making those of them at Westminster gradually less and less significant. I am a former British Army Officer and ex-Police Inspector (in the Zimbabwe Republic Police, 1980-83) with a background of Internal Security Operations and Training in Africa and Northern Ireland. My British Army regular service was mainly as a regular Officer in the Ulster Defence Regiment; I had also briefly served in the regular Army as a Trooper and Potential Officer (1977-78) before spending some years in Africa, and after being medically down-graded by the Army and having to leave the UDR managed to continue as a TA Officer with the Royal Green Jackets in London for a while. I was 'late for the war' in what was Rhodesia, and joined what had been the British South Africa Police in Zimbabwe at the end of 1980; I left the Zimbabwe Republic Police because even in 1983 it was apparent that things were going badly wrong. I moved to Northern Ireland and joined the UDR in 1984.