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Hi. A little about me the main question I keep
getting asked is (You are disabled and a pensioner why are you standing as a
Member of Parliament?)
The answer is in parts.
Firstly the Access to Elected Office for Disabled
People Fund has awarded me a grant to
stand for public office.
With this money I can employ a P.A.
(I have had Fibromyalgia for 11 years it is a bad
type of M.E. (myalgic encephalomyelitis) and Macular degeneration.) This has left me with word
blindness and CFS Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome plus other problems) ) I have 1 to 4 hour days anyone with FMS CFS ME
will understand what it means.
The idea of the fund is to
help people who have a disability and with out extra help could not stand for
public office. So in my case I will have a P.A. to help with paperwork and at
times I need to use a wheelchair. I say
that for me Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is the worse part of FMS this is where
having a PA really helps.
Now the second part. Being
disabled and a pensioner (on a state pension only) also I have a 60 years of life experience to call
on.
Also we are in the age of
the internet we can find out more that any other generation as to what is
happing around us. Using the internet I
can contact more people and put my campaign out in the blue nowhere! I can answer
more of your questions.
All Political Parties have
done nothing but lie to us. I did vote for Tony Blair at the time like most
people believed that we had a fresh clean man with high ideals and integrity.
We all now that he was just another political parasite lining his pockets.
Martin Bell when he stood as
an Independent MP to address corruption within the constituency he stood for. I believe that Independent MPs are the
only way forward.
If I am elected I will work solely for the people of Brighton
Kemptown Constituency.
During this election campaign
please give me your support.
My Regards to all of you
Joe
Neilson
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Retired Amazon
Explorer Joe Neilson Independent
Candidate for Brighton Kemptown
Joe Neilson
has had a colourful life below is a small part of my C.V.
Born at St Anton’s 42 Cissbury Avenue Peacehaven
Sussex in 5th September 1946
This old asbestos shack is still standing
This came about when as a baby my grandmother would
bounce me on her knee calling me GI JOE somehow JOE stuck but I was christened
David Paddy Nicholas. But everybody stills called me Joe.
Joe Neilson
attended Peacehaven infant’s school in Roderick ave at the age of 5 to 7 years. Then his life changed totally
when my father a Ships Engineering Officer made the decision to retire for the
sea and became a land-based engineer.
When the
British Indian Steam navigation company offered him a job in Basra Iraq as the
engineer in charge of the dockyard in Basra. It was usual practice for children
to be sent to boarding school in the U.K.
But my mother
insisted that I travel with them. As Joe says this was to lead to a childhood,
which he was to see and do more things than most people do in a whole lifetime.
At the age of
7 we moved to Basra Iraq.
Where I learnt passable Arabic or I think
it was as our house guards where Afghan tribe’s men as my parents seemed to
forever at cocktail parties these men used to be my baby sitters.
They where
great giving me a real pistol to play with showing me how to load it plus they
had Lee Enfield 303 rifles yet again showing me who it worked (now at this time
I realise they would have been teaching their children of 7 years old how to
become fighters)
After 18
months my father was assigned to Bahrain. Before taking up this new position.
We cruised the Persian Gulf we went ashore in Oman, which at that time was
still a walled city at that time. Then no to Bombay and India.
In 1957 my
father was appointed Booth Lines resident engineer in Iquitos Peru 2.500 miles
(which took a month to get up river) up the Amazon,
This was still
largely unexplored at that time this was a turning point in my life.
We had a
saying Jungle down the street this was true within a mile you could be in the
forest. I did not a attend school and I was the only European child in town and
there were only 2 cars in the town. At the age of 11 I had my first rifle a
single shot bolt action .22 I spent my learning to canoe fish and hunt this
town was still an outpost.
I loved every
minute of it a boys own dream come true.
We did have
Indians coming out of the forest to trade.
It had a bad side as well we had riots in the
town which lead street fighting and police and army retreated to our house and
it was like the wild west with guns being fired out of our windows. Later that
night I saw my first person shot died by the chief of police just outside of
our front door.
But the Amazon
rain forest is one of most beautiful things on earth. But now being destroyed.
Teenage years
what most teenagers do “chase girls and riding fast motorcycles.” Coffee Bars
and Rock an Roll
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I never had a
great interest in sport but by a chance became involved in Fencing and became a
medallist Fencer and was ask to Fence for Sussex.
But more interested
in teaching in my teens gave fencing classes at Peacehaven Youth Club and other
youth clubs in the area. Later teaching at evening classes at the Hillcrest in
Newhaven.
But in my
teens I was drawn back to the Amazon and South America
Besides having
adventures in South America which to long to relate here.
But spent a
very dangerous time in the Silver Triangle of Colombia and meeting some of the
most feared drug lords in Medellin.
I a spent time with rebels in an unnamed country in South America.
I have lived with Amazonian Indians. Plus did solo expeditions in to unexplored areas of the Amazon.
I did a solo canoeing of
the Amazon after this I became a
member of the Long River Canoeist Club
I was involved with members of the underground
before the revolution in Portugal 1974.
Plus expeditions in to unexplored areas of the Rio
Negro, the Rio Blanco, and the Tacharto.
The Mucaja, Australian Adventurer Harry Nash and I
are believed to have been the first Europeans to climb the Sierra Grande in
Roraima.
I was also an
accredited adviser to the Royal Geographical Society as an adviser on the
Amazon covering such areas equipment jungle survival etc.
I worked with
the Royal Marines advising them on jungle survival.
I helped in
planning of major expeditions to the Amazon basin. I advised many young People
going to rain forests on Operation Raleigh 1980s.
I was at one
time credited as one of this countries Crossbow experts I still a very keen
Crossbowman.
I was one of
the founding members of Brighton Housing trust.
Just after I
returned for a backpacking trip in Australia (I was super fit for my age walking 15 + miles a
day.)
On my return
its was the 18 March 2013 my P.T.S.D. turned in to Fibromyalgia.
But I had no idea what was happing to me it took 2
years before I was told I had Fibromyalgia.
I have been an
environmentalist for 40 plus years. I am a human-rights activist.
Joe Neilson
A DISABLED
CANDIDATE BEING HELPED BY THE
www.access-to-elected-office-fund.org.uk
I have signed the following statement:
‘I confirm
that in standing for election, my activities will uphold the rule of law,
democracy, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance for different
faiths and beliefs.’