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Anthony John Stuart Bennett (commonly known as '''Tony Bennett''') was a leading member of the British Political Party Veritas and was listed on the database of the Electoral Commission as official leader during the actual leadership of Robert Kilroy-Silk . POLITICAL CAREER Bennett became active in politics when he lived in Derbyshire from 1972 to 1978. In May 1976 he topped the poll as an Independent Labour candidate for the Hasland Ward of North East Derbyshire District Council. He was also elected as part of a six-strong team that challenged the ruling Labour group on Hasland Parish Council. After moving to Harlow in 1978, he joined Harlow Constituency Labour Party in 1985 , but left Labour in November 1997 to join the United Kingdom Independence Party . In April 1999, he became the Campaign Manager for UKIP's Eastern Region Campaign, helping Jeffrey Titford to become one of UKIP's first three MEPs in June that year. In July, Jeffrey Titford rewarded him by appointing him as his Political Assistant in Chelmsford, a post he held until February 2001. During this time he founded the so-called ' Metric Martyrs Camapaign' together with Jeffrey Titford in January 2000 and published leaflets encouraging traders to defy the new laws making it a crime to sell fruit, vegetables and other 'loose goods' in pounds and ounces. He stood for UKIP in Harlow in the 2001 General Election, gaining 1,223 votes (3%). In early 2002, he was banned from standing for UKIP for two years and from holding office in the party 2004 after he circulated, privately, a pamphlet referring to the Prophet Muhammad having consummated his marriage to his child bride Aisha at the age of 9, which he said would have been prosecuted today as a case of child sexual abuse. The pamphlet also warned about the rise of militant Islam in the United Kingdom. On 15 August 2004, Bennett began work as Robert Kilroy-Silk 's Researcher and became a founder member of his Veritas Party in January 2005. He stood for the party in Harlow during the 2005 General Election , securing 941 votes and a fifth-placed finish just behind UKIP's John Felgate on 981 votes. A tireless Eurosceptic , Bennett's campaiging activities have included: (1) founding Active Resistance to Metrication, a group dedicated to preventing any further compulsory metrication (2) helping to form the People's Campaign To Keep The Pound , and (3) founding the Campaign for a Referendum on the European Constitution (CREC), which campaigned using purple pre-addressed postcards to the Queen, asking her to refuse Royal Assent to any Bill to adopt the European Constitution until the British people had had the chance to accept or reject it in a referendum. After Tony Blair yielded to popular demands for a referendum in May 2004, CREC changed its name to the Campaign to Reject the European Constitution. An active member of British Weights and Measures Association, in 2002 he received the Association's annual 'Golden Rule' award for his campaign of removing and altering illegal road signs in metres which contravene the Trafifc Signs Regulations. Bennett also ran a successful campaign to allow national flags on car registration plates together with Leeds businessman Peter Rogers, in the face of proposed government legislation which would have only allowed the E.U. symbol on car number plates. Bennett resigned from the Veritas Party nine days after the General Election and ceased to work for Robert Kilroy-Silk on 31 August 2005. He is now self-employed as a Rights Adviser and is not a member of any political party. During the 1980s he personally founded two Credit Unions, one of them the Harlow Community Credit Union, the other the Harlow Council Employees' Credit Union. These two recently merged to form Harlowsave Credit Union. In the 1980s Bennett was an active campaigner on parents' rights and wrote "Guide for Families with Children in Care", which is now in its sixth edition under a new title: "Your Child and Social Services: A Guide to Your Rights". He is also a joint author of "Creation and Evolution, Your Questions Answered", a creationist guide to common queries about creation science. POPULAR ALLIANCE In early 2006 Tony Bennett became acting secretary of the new Popular Alliance party. COUNTY WATCH Tony Bennett is a campaigner for the pressure-group " County Watch ", and he recently took down "Welcome to The County Of Lincolnshire " signs with fellow County Watch members Derek Norman and Robert Stevens. EXTERNAL LINKS
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