Labour's follies over "Rent Controls"

Ed Milaband’s Labour plan to introduce “rent control” may sound like a good idea but leading economists explain that this would be a year 1 economist “text book” mistake. It would lead ultimately to higher rents and less supply of rentable properties in Camden and the UK.  Labour are just desperate for any ideas to try and win, they don't care about you.

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Gordon Brown’s favourite economist Paul Krugman, a Nobel prize-winner, has warned that attempts to control rent always fail, writing: ‘Almost every freshman-level textbook contains a case study on rent control, using its known adverse side-effects to illustrate the principles of supply and demand.’

The socialist Swedish economist Assar Lindbeck once said: ‘Next to bombing, rent control seems in many cases to be the most efficient technique for destroying cities.’

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Nigel Rumble stands for Hampstead Town

Many of you may have seen and engaged with me in Hampstead Town and on the Heath when shooting my film “Smiley’s People in Hampstead" in the past year.

The film is about the past BBC locations scooted for the iconic story by John Le Carré which went on to became the definitive ‘Spy’ story. My short however, is a homage to the scooted locations and captures the history and seemingly non-changing nature of Hampstead.  This stature and preservation of historic legacy of Hampstead and its architecture is one of the many features that I wish to celebrate and wish to help preserve as your next councillor for Hampstead Town on 7th May.

Please join with me on my venture and support me to become the first ever Independent councillor in Hampstead Town NW3 and indeed Camden,  representing the area where I was born and raised and is my family home for more than 45 years with four generations of my family living locally back to the Edwardian era.

Being a local I know just how special Hampstead and the Heath is and it needs care and nurturing more than ever now with a very disconnected Camden council making sweeping changes on planning permissions, proposed cuts to bin collections.  As your prospective councillor I naturally would question and fight where needed the cause for the people on proposed plans to build a Hotel at 6 Streatley Place, anti-social basement excavations blighting Hampstead homes and expansions of Tesco to name just a few. My family have been enjoying the heath through four generations and the very controversial and shambolic plan over the dam works is just another case I would fight if elected as your local councillor for Hampstead Town. 

Hampstead is special and I want to keep it that way, I am not a professional politician but am a local campaigner who will always put the people first in what ever I do. 

Since resigning my position on the Executive of Camden Conservatives back in 2012 to become an Independent. I have respect for the two Tory sitting councillors already elected last year and would find it easy to work with them as your Independent voice of reason, freed from party politics.

Your Local prospective Independent councillor and candidate for Hampstead Town by-election 7th May

I am honoured to have been nominated by local residents of Hampstead Town to stand for the upcoming Hampstead Town by-election which will be contested on same day as the General Election on 7th May 2015.

This by-election was called by the resignation of Simon Marcus who was one of your Tory councillors in Hampstead Town ward who is now standing for parliament elections.

I believe firmly that should I successfully get elected as your councillor, I pledge to commit to that obligation and not resign mid term to further a political career. I am NOT a professional politician. But I am a committed camapigner living and working in the Hampstead area most of my life.

I have already been working on your behalf since 2007, where I was and STILL am an active member  of a local SNT Police panel that used to be based in the Hampstead Police station until the closure caused by ill founded Tory reforms diminishing and decimating our local police numbers in our local areas.

I have been a member of the Hampstead Royal Free Trust since 2011and take a very active interest in matters of the Health reform and how it is working in practice.

Having a young Daughter still at Primary school age. I take a very active role in local school places and was an active member of the NW3 School places group back in 2009/10 to try and get a new local school in Belsize Park to take pressure of Hampstead and other surrounding areas. Yes Belsize back then DID NOT have a local primary state school. It now boasts Abacus School that is expected to move into the old Hampstead Police Station.

This could not have happened if "our" group of 15 or so volunteers back in 2009/10 had not pushed with such a strong campaign. I was honoured to have helped in a small way back then.

This demonstrates the power of "community" coming together for them selves to make change happen. So called politicians think it is them but in reality it is you the local community.

As your prospective councillor I see my role as a representative of our community and I soak in your needs, wants and community ideas to try and facilitate change. As your councillor that would enable me (your elected representative) to voice for the needed change in Camden council. Thats what I believe a local councillor should do! But it appears that for most "professional politicians" who are part of the traditional political parties that is not always the case.

Did you know that even in grass roots local politics that councillors have a local party whip to make sure that ALL councillors toe the local and national party line!

I am sure most of you already knew that, but it brings me to a vital point about my manifesto.

I stand as an Independent prospective candidate. What does "Independent" actually mean you may well ask?

Well for me it means "Independent" of outside political pressures allowing me to simply take the view of the local community and question and fight for what I (driven by a consensus of the local community view) believe to be right. That does not mean that I will not engage with the "political process", naturally I must in order to bring about needed change.

Therefore, my view is just as any other professional embarking on a venture. Research, THINK, LISTEN, THIINK and keep on listening to the local community.  Distill all the research and opinions down into a plan of action. So yes it is a job, it is a BIG commitment, I profoundly believe that no one should put themselves up for being a councillor unless they have the full commitment to serve a full term. But thats just my personal view.

I hope to being calling upon many of you (over 8,500 of you!) as best as humanly possible with the limited resources of myself my agent and my growing number of supporters!

Yes that is a downside in not being part of that political machine, no network of paid up members!

No matter, I hope that I may get more volunteers who believe in what I am trying to achieve here in this "new" social experiment to bring Independence into local politics.

All of you wishing to engage this task or just bring suggestions and ideas can do so here through my published email address nigel4hampsteadtown@gmail.com I am also on Twitter as @nigelrumble


(c) Nigel Rumble 2015