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Quatar (or "its ruling family") does own £10bn in properties? https://www.theguardian.com/business/ng-interactive/2022/nov/05/how-qatar-bought-up-britain https

• twixfel 3y ago
  Yeah that's not that much, certainly not enough to warrant being called a "massively failing economy", otherwise so too was the US a massively failing economy in the 80s when Japan was buying everything up. Total property assets in the UK are worth £8.7 trillion. It says more about Qatar than it does about the UK, other than that the UK is a liberal capitalist democracy.
  • qingcharles 3y ago
    And it's quite the turnaround for Qatar in the last 50 years considering how they were once part of the British Empire. The Qataris still have a fascination with British things (e.g. Harrods).
    • twixfel 3y ago
      Well, they have oil.