England pretty famously hosted the World Cup in 1966, when male homosexual acts were illegal in this country, and when Qatar was still part of the British Empire. Motes and beams, brothers and sisters. Motes and beams.
Notice that this is the issue, as if visiting same-sex couples were going to be copulating in the streets of Doha, or ran any realistic risk of being prosecuted for what they did in their hotel rooms.
The issue is not workers' rights, which would not have been a charge that could have been levelled against Britain in the highly unionised days of 1966, but which certainly could be today.
No one who is allowed a platform is talking about that, and no one who was allowed a platform would wish to, because even in the form of slave labour on building sites, it is too close to home in Britain 46 years after the Budget of December 1976.
They know who builds the stadiums in Britain so they can't complain about the same thing in Qatar.
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DeleteAnd they are largely built for the same people.