yes we need to have rent controls to break the vicious cycle, house prices increase, rents increase, buy to let market increases, inflation increases, creating more societal division, people driven to benefits increase as wages don’t increase in relation, government debt increases thereby decreasing perceived value in the pound internationally, soon we might be at parity with the dollar!, government holds base rate artificially low to reduce its own interest payments on its exponential looking debt, were close to a greek like tipping point, interest so low makes it not worth saving money especially when interest rates are half inflation, further devaluing the pound which makes it harder for everyone to afford the increasing house prices and consumer goods/ food, unless wages increase which causes competetivity to go down which reduces gdp and economic output, the only solution is capping government debt, setting rent controls at a lower rate than current rents, and de-incentivising buy to let and multiple property ownership, to cap people pressure on housing through importation, and wean the UK business of cheaper more pliable foreign labour dependancy, to defuse the housing market so as to lower debt burden invested in property mortgages, and its associated short-termist profiteering on property values. once rents are capped 20% lower, to thence cap housing benefit successively and lower it in relation to reduced house prices and capped rents, and genuinely un-house council property sub-letters of which im sure is around 5-10%, whilst increasing the base rate, and transfer the cost of housing benefit, back to the employer by increased wages. reducing our global competitiveness, but seriously our economy is really overheated and distorted even in this recession. perhaps for the government borrowing to be invested in gold and then borrow against the gold, as it will increase in value and reduce the cost of re-payment required. we borrow £2.3billion a week increasing the debt.

fundamentally the banks encourage a debt society as it was in their interest, and the government followed suit, such that its personality from a fiscal sense is modelled after the averagely imprudent citizen, and they are now in cahoots to protect their imprudent fiscal natures, as the shock of anything else is against both their personal fiscal interests, in other words the gambler with debts always want to sit at the table and gamble some more in the hope of leaving it with less debt than accepting responsibility for the debt hes created.