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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
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
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.’