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KATY PERRY Brit Awards 2017 mocks Donald Trump, Theresa May Housing Crisis

KATY PERRY performs her single chained to the rhythm at the BRIT AWARDS 2017 ,Slaming President Trump  http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/22/cel...  and mocks, Theresa May on Housing Crisis in the UK.Using two Skeleton effigies , that were used to mock Donald Trump and UK PM Theresa Mays special relationship .  The UK state visit by Trump scheduled this year ,including meeting the Queen Elizabeth II, has already been heavily criticized by both MPS and 1.8 million plus signatures by the UK general public, against a state visit by Donald Trump .There is currently a housing crisis in the UK , with four of the major house builders monopolizing new build house prices and building plots of land.  Coupled with housing shortage an increasing number of homeless are living on UK streets says charity Shelter.  Brits Awards 2017: Katy Perry takes a dig at Donald Trump and Theresa May during Chained To The Rhythm performance KATY Perry took aim at Donald Trump and ...

Average British home price, tips over 300,000 pounds @onthemarketblog

The average asking price for a home in England and Wales passed 300,000 pounds for the first time in March, property website Rightmove said on Monday, as buyers rushed to beat a property tax rise which comes into force next month. Asking prices for homes in London were 11 percent higher than a year earlier, but prices in the capital were flat compared with February with the biggest month-on-month increases in central, south west and north east England. Demand has grown in recent months as people seeking second homes or properties to rent them out hurry to finish their transactions before a hike in a property tax due to take effect on April 1. Overall, the average asking price in England and Wales rose 7.6 percent year-on-year to 303,190 pounds, an increase of 50 percent in a decade, far out-stripping wage growth and leaving many people unable to afford a home. Rocket Despite government attempts to boost housebuilding, Rightmove said demand was continuing to outstri...

Bank of England chief economist says UK housing market "broken"

Britain's housing market is "broken", the Bank of England's chief economist Andy Haldane said on Thursday, in an unusually forthright criticism of the lack of new homes being built. Haldane said Britain needed to build around 200,000 new homes a year, and that its failure to build much more than half that -- largely due to a lack of new public housing -- had caused prices to rocket. "The UK housing market is broken," he said at a meeting hosted by Britain's Trades Union Congress. " There is a chronic and accumulated imbalance between demand and supply, and it is that which is sending skyward - and has sent skyward - house prices." Asked separately whether the BoE should print money to fund government infrastructure projects, Haldane said there was a good case for more infrastructure investment but that the government could borrow very cheaply from financial markets .  (Reporting by David Milliken; editing by Ralph Boulton Rueters) In his...

Why Labour is Opposed to the Housing Bill ?

John Healy shadow housing secretary & Sadiq Khan Labour london Mayor Candidate 2016  By  John Healy When the Commons debates the government’s new housing and planning bill tomorrow, people will start to see that the Tories’ housing plans are driven by the politics of the Conservative party, not by the housing needs of the country. Ministers talk about building more houses and helping people become homeowners. But this hides the truth that their housing record is five years of failure on every front. Home ownership has fallen every year since 2010 and is now at the lowest rate in a generation. The Conservatives have overseen the lowest number of homes built under any government since the 1920s and the lowest number of genuinely affordable homes for two decades. Homelessness is rising; private rents have soared. John Healy MP Shadow Housing Minster : speaking on housing at recent Labour Party conference  So in a political panic about falling...

Half of UK households expect Bank of England rate hike in next six months > Markit

Around half of British households expect the Bank of England to hike interest rates in the next six months, up sharply since July even though they have become more downbeat about their finances, a survey showed on Wednesday. Markit's monthly Household Finance Index showed 48 percent of households predict the BoE will raise interest rates over the next six months, the highest figure since July 2014 and up from 34 percent last month. Economists polled by Reuters expect a first interest hike early next year as Britain's economy shows little sign of slowing much. However, households were the gloomiest about their finances so far in 2015, across a majority of job sectors. They were slightly less downbeat about the prospects over the next 12 months than they were in July. Data company Markit said the survey suggested the boost in consumer morale from falling inflation has started to ease off. "Improving economic fundamentals and gradually rising income from emplo...