"And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authority - especially so when governments and politicians take us to war, when they have decided that they will kill and others will die."
~ Robert Fisk
David's Current Maxim: 'No mother and child should be in the least harmed anywhere in our still beautiful world.'
David Halpin Election 2019
David is standing as an Independent candidate for the Newton Abbot Constituency in the 12th December 2019 general election.
This special “Election 2019” website annexe has been created to present detailing David's manifesto and the issues he is standing for.
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I am a patient at 79! But very fit - aside from a few medical wrinkles - mostly drug induced. I have been an orthopaedic and trauma specialist. I dislike the pompous word 'consultant'. Specialist v generalist.
I liked dealing with patients, and I was trained well in medicine at St Mary's. I considered being a GP seriously but like to use my hands.
General Practice in the 60s and 70s and in GB was the best in the world. Standards have fallen drastically, to generalise, both in GP and hospitals. Every other day I hear stories which can only be described as resulting from neglect. Basic things like no occult blood test and rectal examination when anaemia is confirmed.
I note that doctors are demoralised and fearful of speaking out. Both are 'infectious'. All this has been planned - mostly surreptitiously.
I stood as an Independent Candidate in the Newton Abbot (Devon) constituency. This is from the Election annexe - https://dhalpin.infoaction.org.uk/election-2019 from John Furse's LRB article - the Dismantling of the NHS
Conservative Party’s Economic Reconstruction Group In his report to the Conservative Party’s Economic Reconstruction Group in 1977, Nicholas Ridley wrote that:
"...denationalisation should not be attempted by frontal attack but by preparation for return to the private sector by stealth. We should first pass legislation to destroy the public sector monopolies. We might also need to take power to sell assets. Secondly, we should fragment the industries as far as possible and set up the units as separate profit centres."
Please read re NHS under Manifesto and Core Issues.
Our calling and OUR NHS - its largely up to us doctors to bring it back up.
Your analysis is very accurate, and mine. I am so glad you cited Milton Mayer. Shamefully I have never read his book. SAlways reacting to the poneros. He was a journalist. I recall that he had a 'quiet funeral' like Howard Zinn, another 'Jew' of the finest morals. Interesting. I have sent these quotes from Mayer out for at least 15 years. Hundreds of times. I cannot recall, and you know my memory, more than one or two responses - and many go out to people I know and respect. Psychology is all important.
I have found time, when staying awake after a pee usually, to read a book reviewed in the Morning Star about 11 years ago - just before I left after it swerved towards Zion, that black hill in Jerusalem. This very brave psychologist was studying poneros -evil with 2 others under the heel of 'communism'.
Political Ponerology Andrew M. Lobaczewski ISBN-13:978-1897244470 Red Pill Press North Carolina -unincorporated community. A short list of books of seminal nature Graham who sent it from the States put in -
Dear David, hope you find the information helpful. best wishes Graham. the e-mail address is still live - (unless the CIA are diverting mails)
love and truth dear Heather
David
On 11/12/2019 11:15 pm, Heather Stroud wrote:
This in response to my communication with the organisers of the hustings event. David, you will note I borrowed your quote.
Subject: Hustings. Thank you both for your responses. In reading them I realise we are not so far in our thinking. You confirm my frustration that these hustings are, by there very nature, only designed to be an introduction to the candidates that can only ever reach a shallow understanding of what their values are. It’s this leads me to question the format and wonder if there is a way we can achieve something deeper. Having been alert to government changes over many years through my involvement in negotiations with the British Government in Hong Kong in relation to the treatment of asylum seekers, I do see a trend in ever tighter and tighter controls that I find very disturbing. Like others who have taken a stand by speaking out I share a sense of urgency in addressing these issues.
As you will see from my published article the question I posed regarding Julian Assange goes way beyond his individual injustice. In fact it goes right to the heart of government. What kind of government do we have and how far away is it to the kind of government we aspire to have. As stated this question relates to freedom of speech, to democracy and to justice. His case raises the question as to who is actually in charge of making policy decisions within the UK. Certainly not us the sovereign electorate. In allowing the arbitrary detention of Julian Assange for revealing war crimes committed in the US, our government is ( like the US) sending out a message that those who challenge power will not be tolerated. The US and UK are in many ways on a parallel track.
The US is ahead of us in having privatised all of their public services. They have don’t have a health care system that is available to everyone. Even in the private sector it’s said that it is nowhere near to the standard of the NHS. Am I moving far away from the question relating to the arbitrary detention of Julian Assange? ... No, not at all. Dr. Bob Gill and others who are speaking out about the stealth employed in the ‘sell off’ of the NHS are fully aware that in speaking out in today’s climate of control it will likely not only cost them their job but jeopardise their career as medical professionals. It’s happened and is happening to many such whistleblowers. I could site the case of a banking whistleblower not so far from home.
Democracy has never been given to us. It was something that had to be fought for by our forebears and as a result of our complacency will no doubt have to be fought for again. Our welfare system, along with our treasured jewel the NHS, was largely granted to us because of fears that the influence of communism was taking seed amongst the disenchanted workers who had returned home from the Second World War. Of course there were genuinely good people like Bevin and others, at the forefront fighting for these reforms. There was also a motive on the part of the ruling elite to get the economy moving again to foster their own wealth. Most gains within society happen as a result of struggle and a convergence of other factors.
I consider myself to have been born during the golden years soon after the war... free education (including university) free health care (including dental and eye care), cheap rental accommodation, cheap buses ( including trains). Energy, water, transport, prisons were all owned in public hands. There was no outsourcing or shareholder profits, children we were free to play and to explore, not coming home until it was tea time or it was getting dark. We took ourselves to school because no one questioned that we weren’t safe. I don’t remember there being so many young homeless people .. living and dying on the streets. Maybe the odd tramp who had chosen a lifestyle of the open road.
We thought there would be no more wars, then came the Falklands, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and where else might we be fighting covertly. Certainly our weapons have appeared in Yemen. I could say much more, but the evidence is there... what we had is slowly being stripped away.
"What no one seemed to notice was the ever widening gap between the government and the people. And it became always wider.....the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting, it provided an excuse not to think....for people who did not want to think anyway gave us some dreadful, fundamental things to think about.....and kept us so busy with continuous changes and 'crises' and so fascinated.....by the machinations of the 'national enemies,' without and within, that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us.....
"Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, 'regretted,' that unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these 'little measures'.....must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing.....Each act is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next.
"You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join you in resisting somehow. You don't want to act, or even talk, alone.....you don't want to 'go out of your way to make trouble.' But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes.
"That's the difficulty. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves, when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed.
"You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things your father.....could never have imagined."
This candidate has made 'differences' in his long life as doctor/surgeon, countryman, plantsman, craftsman, adoptive parent, foster parent etc. He could make a difference in the forum of a much lowered Britain. He calls a spade a spade and speaks well publicly. So vote for David Halpin.
In his report to the Conservative Party’s Economic Reconstruction Group in 1977, Nicholas Ridley wrote that:
"...denationalisation should not be attempted by frontal attack but by preparation for return to the private sector by stealth. We should first pass legislation to destroy the public sector monopolies. We might also need to take power to sell assets. Secondly, we should fragment the industries as far as possible and set up the units as separate profit centres."
Thank you for the courtesy of asking me. My views are plain - NA is being made hateful to live in, and a town to avoid as the 'service' town for those that live around. I drive through at least twice a week to my 28 acres of woods in Combe, but often take the 'clay pits' road to avoid lights at Church Pond and now the flood plain development at Challabrook.
We moved to Combe-in-Teignhead in 1975 when I was appointed Consultant in Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery at Torbay and at the wonderful Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Hospital. Exeter where I trained for 4 years with a year at the Royal Cornwall. I took my late predecessors advice, Robin Ling, and chose Home House - a long thatched property in poor repair. That is to live in the NA/Shaldon/Tq triangle so that if I was called to an emergency in Tq on return home from Exeter 3x per week, I did not have to double back. In fact - just up the valley of the Dod and over Great Hill. NA then was a Devon town with straight forward DEvon people. We shopped there most Saturdays. At least 4 greengrocers in the market, one, Bill Morris, from our parish. Many trades.
Briefly, because I need to add one short appeal on david halpin > election before 10am. I have not got time to check your assertions. I am not impressed as to your commitment to OUR NHS.
I am going out on this last day in the hired motor home with Bill McCluskey, a neighbour driving, - he is used to its width and length. I had intended similar against Bradshaw (Henry Jackson Society member but a ''Labour'' MP and a revolting Blairite) in Exeter, 2010. A small old caravan then, with the good intention of going round community halls, estates etc to listen to people's concerns and so they could get the measure of me. Many know me anyway as a surgeon first, and through public meetings - at least 4 in Totnes - Zion, Kelly, BBC, 'War', organic farming etc Also through my name on letters in the Mid Devon Advertiser, Western Morning News and national, with other doctors re torture of Palestinians by Israel for instance. And through broadcasts on national, regional and local broadcast media. The Voyage of the Dove and the Dolphin (google it - the website, soon to be redone, and see the terrible cruelty of Zion upon the noble, native humans, almost all noted by me. To Gaza 10 times but barred by the Zionist entity after they tried a second time to kill me + 15 others then 30-12-03) There is a stack of records here I have no time to sift.)
Many know I am a man of strong principle who cares deeply about almost everything. And they know I get things done - even filling two lethal potholes with quick setting concrete down from Haytor so a cyclist did not end up dead or brain dead. Also that I call a spade a spade - as now.
47,300 brochures were handed over at the very large (I am told) SW RM station Friday am. Dear Nick our postman, told me at 8.15 last Saturday, as I was delivering a load of logs I had cut and split, that the brochure was on doorsteps already!
I thank you, the workers in RM for sticking with oppressive management and helping a man who wants to serve his country, having served already as a doctor first (St Mary's 1964) and then up to full time 1992 and part time 2005 - helping waiting lists - TKRs, and seeing, treating often with simple 'cortisone' injections, diagnosing in 7 GP surgeries. One in Dartmouth where a visit to a DGH in Torbay or Plymouth was a day long and often pricey.
You and I will never give up. Millions of Britons did not in 1939. Born 14-04-40 My Dad Joe, a self-taught electronic engineer with a sparse education, found a crater courtesy of the Luftwaffe in Southampton on December 1st 1941 - the family radio (him) and electrical business being one of 4000 'hits' with 40,000 incendiaries - they could see the glow from Cherbourg.
An elderly lady, Brenda, who got our annual newsletter from the Dove and Dolphin which had a hand on the shoulder of the Palestinian people, sent this with her donation:
Say not the struggle naught availeth
The labour and the wounds are vain
The enemy faints not, nor faileth
And as things have been, things remain
For while the tired waves, vainly breaking
Seem here no painful inch to gain Far back through creeks and inlets making
Comes silent, flooding in, the main
I thought they were William Blake's words. In fact they are A.E. Clough's (she penned the name in), and they make me weep.
'Never give up .....' she said. The post card was of Hampstead Heath by Constable. Amidst the evil and the filth there are good and gentle souls.
Audio for Radio Devon via journalist Sophie Pierce whom I like, and who has interviewed me several times 11.30 10-12-19
Dear Sophie,
Campaigning hard as an Independent man and mind in the constituency of Newton Abbot. Back from the woods, I had a message about 10 days ago to contact you. You have interviewed me several times, first and way back to do with the Voyage of The Dove and the Dolphin - 1-02-03. Again re my fight with good others for the life of our Community Hospitals and their vital in-patient beds. Lost - hence the third world chaos in OUR DGHs. Every day I hear stories of gross negligence.
I 'phoned the Plymouth BBC, and James recorded about 7 minutes of my forth right responses to about 6 set questions. He said 'great'. I trust he will stay in post. He said you were unsure when the whole piece would be broadcast. I have not heard. I have watched a few minutes of the Boris/Jeremy Punch and Judy show which central BBC 'editors' are keen to flog to infinity. I have seen a few excruciating clips from the third form debating society - Mrs Swinson. Britain has been lowered mostly by our politicians but ably helped by the 'media'.
In his report to the Conservative Party’s Economic Reconstruction Group in 1977, Nicholas Ridley wrote that:
"...denationalisation should not be attempted by frontal attack but by preparation for return to the private sector by stealth. We should first pass legislation to destroy the public sector monopolies. We might also need to take power to sell assets. Secondly, we should fragment the industries as far as possible and set up the units as separate profit centres."
"Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side."
David is standing as an Independent candidate for the Newton Abbot Constituency in the 12th December 2019 general election.
