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NS Nation Name: Sao Nova Europa
Character Name: Charles Henderson
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 51
Character Height: 1.88cm
Character Weight: 64kg
Character Position/Role/Job:
Financial Analyst at Corporate Finance Division of Chase Bank, London (1993 - 1996)
Consultant at McKinsey & Company, London (1996 - 2000)
Member of European Parliament (2004 - Now)
Chairman of UKIP (2007 - 2016)
Chairman of the Brexit Party (2018 - Now)
Appearance:
Character State of Origin: Dover
Character State of Residence: Dover
Character Party Affiliation: Brexit Party
Main Strengths:
Fiery orator - A charismatic and fiery orator and debater.
Popular with Brexiteers - He is extremely popular among Brexit supporters.
Main Weaknesses:
Elite background - His elite background can be used to accuse him of being a 'fake populist' and that he does not really represent the people.
Controversial statements - From statements about Islam to migration to gay rights and climate change, he has made a series of statements that place him outside of the British political mainstream and leave him open to attacks by the media.
Eccentric - While part of his charm, his anachronistic upper-class mannerisms and consciously traditionalist attitudes are derided by many.
Ties with [Trump] - Charles has been very supportive of US President [Trump], who is generally unpopular among the British public.
Biography:
Charles was born in Dover on 28 March 1967. He was the younger son of Jacob Henderson, editor of The Daily Telegraph newspaper, and Barbara Morris, daughter of a Conservative Party MP. Charles attended Ashdown House, a preparatory boarding school in East Sussex. He managed to gain a King's Scholarship to study at Eton College; he was described as an excellent student but one that was socially awkward. Charlies studied Mathematics at University of St Andrews, where he graduated with an upper second-class honours degree in 1989. Charles decided to continue his studies abroad, attending Stanford University, where he earned a Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy. For the next two years, he attended Harvard Business School where he earned an MBA (Master Business Administration).
In 1993, he became financial analyst at the corporate finance division of Chase Bank in London. In 1996, he was hired as a consultant at McKinsey & Company in London, focusing primarily on the telecommunications and financial services industries. In 2001, he entered politics as that year's national elections, he was selected as the Conservative candidate for The Wrekin in Shropshire. He managed to gain a substantial percentage but lost to the the incumbent Labour MP by a slim margin. In his electoral campaign, though, he managed to garner media attention that was disproportional to his political size. His controversial comments allowed him to establish the reputation of a staunch fiscal and social conservative, well to the right of his party. In 2003, he criticized the then leadership of the party for it's efforts to increase representation of ethnic minorities on the party candidate list, arguing that such quotas were undemocratic and did not represent the country.
His disagreements with party line over a variety of issues, led him to eventually become a member of UKIP that same year. Charles gained notoriety as a debater in various news panels where he was called to represent his new party. He became increasingly popular among the membership, even overshadowing elected MEPs. In the 2004 European Elections, UKIP saw a large increase in support (6.5%) and Charles was elected MEP. His fiery speeches in the European Parliament and his attacks on EU officials further elevated his profile among Euroskeptic voters.
As the party leader, Roger Holmes, had to resign due to unexpected health issues in late 2006, Charles entered the leadership race and managed to overwhelmingly defeat his opponents and become the new leader of the party. He turned UKIP to the right and tried to shift its image of a singe-issue party. He gave it an ideological platform of fiscal conservatism, reducing taxes and immigration, reintroducing Grammar Schols and denying climate change. He accused the then leader of the Conservatives, Daniel Campion, of being a socialist interested in "gay marriage, foreign aid, and wind farms". In 2009 European elections, UKIP finished second with 15.6% of the vote and 13 seats, putting pressure on the Conservatives.
Charles moved the party further to the right, emphasizing the opposition to migration and 'Islamic extremism'. In the 2010 general elections, UKIP won 3.1% of the vote but failed to elect any seats. Charles managed to remain in his position as party leader after a close leadership election and turned the attention of the party to austerity instead. He argued that the 'globalist elites' wanted to place the burden of the crisis on the backs 'of the people'. The party became more populist, emulating less the Thatcherite-Reaganite right Charles used to support and instead looking more and more like continental nationalist parties. This was derided by some commentators who pointed out Charles' eccentric upper class manners and privileged background but Charles was able to successfully argue that he wasn't part of the 'liberal elites'.
In the 2013 elections, UKIP performed extremely well with an average of 23% in the wards where it stood, and increasing its number of elected councillors from 4 to 147. In the 2014 local elections, UKIP won 163 seats, an increase of 128, but did not take control of any council. In the 2014 European Parliament elections, UKIP received the greatest number of votes (27.5%) of any British party, producing 24 MEPs. Charles became a household name and his electoral success prompted the Conservatives to promise a referendum on UK membership in the EU. UKIP won 12.6% of the vote in the 2015 elections, but elected only 1 MP.
As promised, the Conservatives called a referendum on British membership in the European Union. Charles campaigned for Brexit, emphasizing the negative effects of mass migration and of EU regulations. The British voters supported Brexit. With the campaign to leave the EU a success, Charles resigned from the leadership of UKIP. Charles visited the US, where he managed to meet with US Presidential candidate [Trump] and expressed his support for him. Charles did not contest in the 2017 general elections. On 4 December 2018, he announced he was leaving UKIP and in February he announced the creation of a new political party, 'Brexit Party'. "We will make sure that the result of the referendum shall be respected and that the Conservatives shall not bring us a 'soft Brexit', essentially a 'No-Brexit' " he stated.
The Brexit Party has been molded by Charles into a right-wing libertarian-populist party. Aside from its strict support of hard Brexit, it attacks 'climate socialism', supports large-scale cuts in income and corporate taxation, abolishing the BBC fee, ending 'mass immigration and taking control of our borders' and cutting back 'regulations and red tape': it believes it can thus turn Britain into the European Singapore. It attacks the Conservatives on two fronts: that they don't want to deliver 'clear' Brexit and that they have abandoned conservative principles in favor of 'lite socialism'.
Other Info:
He is married with two children.
Political Positions:
Abortion: Pro-life, he believes it should be available only in cases of rape, incest or danger to mother's life.
Brexit: Hard Brexit only.
Climate Change: Believes it is a socialist conspiracy.
Defence: Opposes UK involvement in the Middle East, arguing that it is a waste of cash that could be invested in the UK. Wants to increase military spending by at least 1% of the GDP and is a strong supporter of maintaining a powerful military.
Energy: He supports all energy industries.
Veterans: Supports increased welfare spending for veterans.
Immigration: Wants an Australian-style system of immigration, increase of border guards and a [Trump]-style ban of immigration from 'terrorist-infested countries'.
Devolution: Supports an English Parliament.
NHS: Supports limited privatization of certain services (arguing that they could be better provided by the private sector for the state rather than having the state provide them directly) and cooperation between state-run and private hospitals. At the same time, though, he promises greater funding for the NHS.
Home Affairs: Supports tougher sentences, wants to increase funding for the police and the number of police officers in the streets by hiring more policemen. For Islamic terrorists, he supports life sentence without parole.
Same-sex marriage: Opposed.
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