{"id":19619,"date":"2013-03-14T09:01:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T09:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=19619"},"modified":"2013-03-14T09:01:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T09:01:47","slug":"19619","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/03\/14\/19619\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re selling the Uk to Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/0f6c15ca-8c07-11e2-8fcf-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2NV8CoEoL\" target=\"_blank\"> FT's noted this morning<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Qatar has begun talks with the UK government to invest up to \u00a310bn from the gas-rich Middle Eastern state into key infrastructure projects in Britain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Three thoughts. First, how come Qatar can do this and we can't do the same? Our contribution to a state funded bank for this work is pathetic.<\/p>\n<p>Second, why don't we use QE for this instead?<\/p>\n<p>Third, is this <a title=\"Large parts of the government are to be moved into the private sector to raise revenue\" href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/03\/14\/large-parts-of-the-government-are-to-be-moved-into-the-private-sector-to-raise-revenue\/\" target=\"_blank\">actually part of the deliberate plan to sell the state<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FT&#8217;s noted this morning: Qatar has begun talks with the UK government to invest up to \u00a310bn from the gas-rich Middle Eastern state into<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/03\/14\/19619\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}