 On 31 March 1930, Charles Bentinck Budd was elected to the Offington ward of the West Sussex County Council.Later that year, Budd, who lived at Greenville, Grove Road, was elected to the town council as the independent representative of Ham Ward in Broadwater.At an election meeting on 16 October 1933, Budd revealed he was now a member of the British Union of Fascists (BUF).