Chagos Islands

[Sir Tigger KC]

Apparently Trumpy is exploring the idea of purchasing the Chagos Islands from Mauritius, after Starmer and Lammy meekly surrender them and the Union Flag is pulled down. 

What a humiliation that would be!     Although I suppose it would save the reported £9 billion of taxpayers cash that those idiots have agreed to pay to rent the base. On the other hand Trump will surely charge us, if we want to keep a military presence there? 

Farcical! 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Apparently Trumpy is exploring the idea of purchasing the Chagos Islands from Mauritius, after Starmer and Lammy meekly surrender them and the Union Flag is pulled down. 

What a humiliation that would be!     Although I suppose it would save the reported £9 billion of taxpayers cash that those idiots have agreed to pay to rent the base. On the other hand Trump will surely charge us, if we want to keep a military presence there? 

Farcical! 

Why on earth would our government do this?

The Chagos  Islands are about 1500 miles away from Mauritius.

In his woke lefty way of his Starmer was on about 'righting wrongs of the (colonial) past'

[STEMO]

I used to wish someone would shoot Donald. My wishes have moved closer to home.

[countrywoman]

There's a good queue for the first and looks like one forming for the later!!

[Raeturbo]

Fuc£ if they want it back opps&nhg fight us for it like they did last time and lost🤬

[STEMO]

Fuc£ if they want it back opps&nhg fight us for it like they did last time and lost🤬

Mauritius would probably beat us now.

[Raeturbo]

All we seem to do now is .. give up, so unfortunately you're probably right😵‍💫

[Varche]

Apparently Trumpy is exploring the idea of purchasing the Chagos Islands from Mauritius, after Starmer and Lammy meekly surrender them and the Union Flag is pulled down. 

What a humiliation that would be!     Although I suppose it would save the reported £9 billion of taxpayers cash that those idiots have agreed to pay to rent the base. On the other hand Trump will surely charge us, if we want to keep a military presence there? 

Farcical! 

Wasn't the concept of handover initiated by the previous government ie the Tories?

Quite seriously a government of OOFers could do a better job. We just keep on sleep walking into the hands of the Chinese, Russians and Indians. Thankfully the Iranians are seen for what they are.

Why on earth would our government do this?

The Chagos  Islands are about 1500 miles away from Mauritius.

In his woke lefty way of his Starmer was on about 'righting wrongs of the (colonial) past'

[Sir Tigger KC]

Fuc£ if they want it back opps&nhg fight us for it like they did last time and lost🤬

It was never theirs in the first place.   

It's just an accident of history that the Chagos Islands were administered by the Brits from Mauritius as were the Seychelles, although they later became a Crown Colony in their own right. So are Mauritius going to try to claim the Seychelles next? 

The Establishment have possibly opened a pandora's box here with their insane 'decolonisation' drive, as all kinds of places were administered by the British colonial authorities from other places, often thousands of miles away.  The Maldives and Somaliland for example were administered from British India. As there is now apparently a legal precedent, can India claim The Maldives and Somaliland? 

[Doctor Gollum]

https://youtu.be/E6peKsSEaXk?si=0XsvZjFUDlQ4yELp

He's a bit dodery, but the Senator of Louisiana makes several valid observations.

[Sir Tigger KC]

This article in the Times claims that Starmer is pushing ahead with ceding the Chagos Islands and that the Mauritian PM Navin Ramgoolam claims that in the renegotiation Starmer has made significant concessions, including offering Mauritius complete sovereignty over Diago Garcia, the island with the military base, and has doubled the payment from £9bn to £18bn!    WTF! 

More details from Guido, and it seems that Starmer, Philip Sands, the Mauritius Attorney General and Richard Hermer the UK Attorney General are old chums.   

So the question is, why is Starmer so hell bent on pushing this through?   

And why are Labour being so secretive about it?    As it seems that what details we know, have come from the Mauritian PM when he briefs his MP's!   

[ronnyd]

Was Starmer seen coming out of the Attorney Generals office clutching a brown envelope.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Tell you what though.....

That Mauritian Prime Minister looks like a wily old bastard, and I bet his interest is more about the cash than the islands.  His Swiss bank account will probably be looking much healthier when it's stuffed full of British taxpayers cash! 

It will look even healthier when he sells the islands on to Donald Trump!       

[Sir Tigger KC]

Was Starmer seen coming out of the Attorney Generals office clutching a brown envelope.

Something stinks about all this Ronny, that's for sure!     

[Doctor Gollum]

Looks like another treasonous Labour government.