When the Lords ended its consideration of the Bill to give away the Chagos islands the Conservatives decided to table a motion condemning the policy rather than forcing a vote to stop the Third Reading of the Bill. Had they opted to vote against 3rd Reading instead they would have lost the vote and the government could claim the Lords supported their bad policy. Instead the Lords passed a very critical motion urging the government to change policy. The motion said
“the UK-Mauritius Agreement does not secure the long term future of the Diego Garcia base, creates uncertainty over the continuing unrestricted use of the base, imposes £35 bn of costs on UK taxpayers, was signed without consultation with the Chagosian people”
Conservative Lords pointed out the lack of control over the protected marine environment, the anti nuclear stance of Mauritius, the right of Mauritius to issue fishing rights and allow settlement of islands adjacent to Diego Garcia and the unity of Chagosians that their islands should stay under the UK.
In yesterday’s Telegraph Graham Stringer, Labour MP, made a strong case to stop the give away, pointing out that it violates Manifesto promises they made about UK overseas territories and ignores the rights of the Chagosians themselves.
The President of the USA condemned the give away on Truth Social yesterday. The PM used precious political capital in his early meetings with the President to reassure the US that the base would be safe and secure under new ownership. The President gave him the benefit of the doubt but has clearly now had second thoughts on getting more briefing about what could happen with the base under new ownership. The two main propositions of the PM that the UK could be forced to give up the islands, and that his deal would make them secure were both wrong.
At a time of tension between the US and UK, and between the PM and some of his backbenchers, it would be a good idea to quietly bury this policy. The Chancellor should be pleased to save the money, the Chagosians pleased they have at last been listened to, the US reassured the UK could still make a key base available to them without Mauritius changing the rules and Labour backbenchers would have one less violation of Manifesto promises to explain. What’s not to like?
It was very odd of Andrew Rosindell to complain the Conservatives were not reliable on Chagos when the Conservative peers had just delivered a critical motion and avoided a positive vote in the Lords for this wrong policy. Too many people have commented on this issue without reading what has happened.
January 21, 2026
Nobody in Reform would have been able to work out this tactic and pull it off.
Trump could not say that we would actually be paying Mauritius – a random country with no link to the islands, to take it. Nobody would have believed him, all the usual suspects would have said he was uninformed and mad.
Somebody is certainly mad.
January 21, 2026
Nobody in Greens, Libdems, Independent nor Labour could have ‘pulled it off’, why select just one party – you are terrified and obsessive.
January 21, 2026
OK, so only the Tories are capable enough to operate cleverly in Parliament.
They win even when in a minority.
Why do we bother with the rest?
January 21, 2026
Some of Trumps team have said that once we let the Islands go the USA could then buy the islands from Mauritius. As what ever happens going forward under 2TK’s plan, while the UK taxpayer will be funding it. The Islands are to far and remote for Mauritius to do any thing with, while Diego Garcia might be part of the lease the rest of the Islands will be sold, handed to any interested party. Thus undermining the case for Diego Garcia.
Or in other words the USA might have to nip in before the Chinese do
January 21, 2026
Update – The US president received a letter from nine former army, navy and intelligence leaders 48 hours before he described the agreement as “an act of great stupidity”.
In it, defence chiefs warned that Britain’s deal to give the archipelago to Mauritius would make the Diego Garcia US-UK airbase there “inherently less secure”.
It makes all less secure, which appers to be the Starmer and Parliments Plan, just malicios calus destruction of the UK and its People. The ‘great reset’ in action
January 21, 2026
Well whoever buys them will have an income to offset the costs against.
January 21, 2026
Maybe we’re not going to pay Mauritius anything, as the lords amendment to disclose the financial settlement was lost in the vote last night in the HoCs
January 21, 2026
Or maybe we are paying double the anticipated ….
January 21, 2026
Who knows
January 21, 2026
All the Labour front bench is mad and most of the Con-Socialist too.
From the Telegraph:-
“Sir Keir Starmer has said he will not “yield” to Donald Trump on the future of Greenland.” You, Sir Kier, will have no say in the Greenland matter – you are totally irrelevant.
“The Prime Minister said Mr Trump had criticised his Chagos Islands deal with the “express purpose” of forcing the UK to back down over Greenland.” He does not need you to back down on Greenland Mr Two Tier. He wants you to back down on Chagos as do circa 90% of UK voters and anyone sensible! Doubtless you will if you and Lammy have any sense – alas we know you do not have any!
THE DAILY T • PODCAST
‘The problem for Starmer is that Trump is right’
President rails at UK’s ‘stupidiity’ over Chagos and China. Plus: Brooklyn, victim of “Brand Beckham” or spoilt nepo baby?
January 21, 2026
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard also in the Telegraph gets it totally wrong though – consistently wrong as usual.
“Trump has crossed all lines: it is time to cut off his global credit card
America has lost its credibility. The only thing that can stop the president is the bond market”
January 21, 2026
@Lifelogic – AE-P doesn’t get it. POTUS has in his every move caused the Worlds free-loaders to step up pay their share/contributions to thier own defence and wellbeing. The USA taxpayer has been paying for the bulk of EU’s defence, while the EU slept behind protective trade barriers.
Of course Greenland, that as not a NATO member has a treaty with the USA for its defence, the EU could never come to their aid. The USA will buy the rights to fully mine minerals in Greenland, the greenlanders will recieve massive finacial rewards and security moving forward. Whether they become a US state, is niether here or there – but in comparrison US States indeviduly have more power than the EU permits its States to have. The reason Greenland steered clear of the EU
January 21, 2026
You have to laugh. The USA is the Bank and we have the credit cards – in arrears – and another deluded journalist is throwing his weight around in the tradition of Gove, Johnson, Hannon …
January 21, 2026
LL,
“Ambrose Evans-Pritchard also in the Telegraph gets it totally wrong though – consistently wrong as usual.”
That’s new territory for you.
I normally expect to read “Allister Heath is surely correct in today’s Telegraph” or a variation on those words, perhaps for a different journalist.
January 21, 2026
He’d probably say that AEP is an outlier within the DT’s stable of journalists, only allowed to race on certain courses and on certain days. But I agree with you, it’s strange to see him comment in opposition to the DT line.
January 22, 2026
AEP seems to have been totally taken in by the green blob. A shame, as he used to be worth reading. Nowadays I only read him to be sure that the opposite of what he says must be right.
January 21, 2026
“What’s not to like?”. That’s what makes it so extraordinary. Why is Starmer so determined to press forward? There’s opposition from his own side, and the USA so he doesn’t have to say he’s done a U turn because of the Tories/Reform, he can spin it.
Either he’s completely pig-headed, or something else is going on.
January 21, 2026
He wants to correct the errors of colonialism.
So he replaces UK colonialism with Mauritius colonialism. Somehow that’s better.
January 21, 2026
And fighting for Danish Colonialism …against the leader of our ex- colony.
The man is a hero…
January 21, 2026
@Wanderer – reason to press forward, they only thing coming up is that Starmer’s friends and former legal practice collogues are about to earn big. Everyone else looses
January 21, 2026
Why indeed.
Starmer Reeves doom loop economy continues:-
The number of claimants with no work requirements increased from 2.7 million when the Labour government took office in July 2024 to nearly 4.2 million, according to reports. Other figures indicate a rise from 2.9 million to 4 million over a one-year period.
The problem with socialism is they vert soon run out of other people’s money!
January 21, 2026
I would not care to say that Starmer is a Chinese agent of influence. It’s just that, if he were, what would he do differently?
January 21, 2026
Good morning.
All this is being done to please his mate, Lord Harmer (sp). It has been a long time pet project and now the fruits of their efforts seem to be realised.
Finally. If this goes through, who’s next ? The Falklands ? It will certainly embolden the Argentine government.
January 21, 2026
Absolutely. I’m beginning to think that the Chinese have some very serious “leverage” over Two-Tier and some members of his Government.
January 21, 2026
I tend to agree, especially since the chinese indirectly control of great many functions of the UN
January 21, 2026
…. And Macron and Carney …
January 21, 2026
The Chagos deal is totally insane on every level and it will certainly embolden Spain, Argentina, China… but then almost everything Starmer does is insane – net zero, vat on school fees, his workers rights lunacy, Chagos, the Chinese “embassy”, hiding the vaccine harm figures, his vast tax grabs, his two tier justice, his blatant anti-growth for the UK agenda, his rip off costs and intermittent energy agenda…
Lucy Letby’s 15 convictions are very clearly unsound to say the least. How can our “wonderful” (well wonderfully expensive and slow anyway) get 15 conviction so wrong? Even tossing a coin would have got about half right. Six court of appeal judges have appallingly twice denied her any appeal. Streeting seems to want the poor lass kept in jail for life so as not to upset the victims or the reputation of the NHS – but these were not her victims they were victims of our dire NHS Wes.
Even the former long term UK Health Secretary Sir Jeremy Hunt has called for an “urgent re-examination” of the case against convicted nurse Lucy Letby. So even the tax to death, net zero fan Sir Jeremy Hunt (PPE) can get one thing right. I suppose he mist be well aware of just how incompetent NHS in general and maternity care can be!
January 22, 2026
I agree about the Lucy Letby case, i will go down in history as a spectacular miscarriage of justice. The fact that the CPS has declined the request of Cheshire police for further prosecutions is surely a sign of the way things will go. There must be an appeal without the usual delays of years and years.
January 21, 2026
But that same logic and reasoning wasn’t true for the Rwanda deal …..labour closed that door within the first days of government
January 21, 2026
My comment should’ve been placed /posted as reply to ‘Peter’ below
January 21, 2026
Can you accept that it was the Conservatives that started this process in November 2022? David Cameron stopped the process, but some current Conservative MPs were happy to instigate it?
Reply Conservative Ministers prior to Cameron did not stop officials exploring the issues they claimed were there at UN but never proposed giving away Chagos. Cameron made it policy not to give away Chagos which has been Conservative policy ever since.
January 21, 2026
Did the conservatives negotiate to give away chagos?
Yes, the Conservative government officially initiated and conducted the bulk of the negotiations to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.
Role of the Conservative Government (2022–2024)
Initiation: In November 2022, under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, the UK government announced it had agreed to begin formal negotiations with Mauritius regarding the exercise of sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago.
Reasoning: The decision was driven by intense international legal pressure following a 2019 advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which ruled that the UK’s administration of the islands was wrongful.
Extent of Talks: The Conservative administration held 11 rounds of high-level negotiations before the July 2024 general election. By the time they left office, the framework for ceding sovereignty in exchange for a 99-year lease of the military base on Diego Garcia was already the established “Plan A” for the British state.
QED Conservatives complicit. Another Uniparty issue.
Reply The last Conservative Foreign Secretary refused to pursue tge talks. The Conservatives never offered money to Mauritius. This was a Labour give away.
January 21, 2026
This is one you should admit to. You were a Conservative MP then. Else your defence of other Conservative failures becomes incredible too.
Reply I have taken a consistent and active stance to keep the Chagos
January 21, 2026
What, Sir John do you think the real motivations of Starmer/Lamy/the Foreign Office actually are here? The agenda seems insane, dangerous and evil on every single level to almost everyone! No sensible explanation has been given by Starmer and the 2019 ICJ court ruling is advisory and has no force what so ever.
January 21, 2026
Almost as insane, damaging and expensive as May and Milibrain’s net zero!
January 21, 2026
The Men from the Ministry – or Foreign Office in this case I assume.
I watched a little bit of “Yes Prime Minister” last night. It’s still funny and still true!
(Rees-Mogg – “Real Gentlemen don’t use exclamation marks” 🙁 I guess that settles that then!)
January 21, 2026
@Reply, I would interpret that what Peter is suggesting that under the last Government the deal had progressed so far that when 2TK arrived in office he didn’t have to think or reflect the door had been well and truly opened he just said yes. There was no build up, just walk into No10 and press GO. That suggest that it wasn’t happening from a start over position everything was in place, not cancelled, just ready to go
Reply Not so. Cameron had blocked further negotiations . Labour led intensive talks for the sell out.
January 22, 2026
@Reply, if they was precisely that, ‘Cameron blocked’ how come ten years on the negotiations were so far advanced that Starmer was able to say I agree, the deal(money lease etc) is done, within a couple of months of arriving in office. Just Parliament left to rubber stamp the decisions made.
Reply Labour entered intensive negotiations in Mauritius and London to accelerate work and to give the money away. The Conservatives would not have done this deal and did not do this deal. I was the first to take the International Court Treaty to a tv studio and show the world the advisory opinion could never be binding because the ICJ has no jurisdiction over these issues for the UK.
January 21, 2026
Sir John, The issue we have regarding the Chagos islands is Starmer’s absolute commitment to what he calls, international law.
That is the comfort blanket he hides under when doing things that are patently against the best Interests of the UK and our security interests.
The excuses Starmer deploys to justify his ongoing crashing of the UKs economic and crashing truly international interests are so pathetic even the Labour MPs are tired of being embarrassed by him.
The late criticism of the US President to the give away is much needed but why so late?
Perhaps we can expect another Starmer screeching U turn, he is now famous for them so who knows?
January 21, 2026
Sale and lease back of strategic assets can be rational in some circumstances. Donate and lease back is a truly innovative new approach by a government of sixth formers.
January 21, 2026
Britain is like a demented old fool suckered into paying a house clearer to take away his valuable family heirlooms.
The rascally house clearer can’t believe his luck. His swag will sell for millions!
Meanwhile the old fool tells his aghast and despairing family that he was right to get rid of all that stuff and he has got them an excellent deal.
January 21, 2026
I really do wonder what Trump was told in the initial stages to offer no objection, this raises the question, was he actually given just selective facts, or was he actually lied to ?
It also raises the Question, why did the Trump administration not dig deeper when a hugely important and strategic base of theirs was involved.
Perhaps Trump/America would be better off purchasing the Chagos islands from us for themselves, rather than Greenland !
Although now we have signalled to the World we never really owned them in the first place, and were prepared to not only give away our right to own them, but pay for the privilege as well.
I really do wonder about the reasoning and thought process in our governments minds.
January 21, 2026
I see another stupid Government decision announced today.
Mr Miliband announcing that £15 Billion of taxpayers money is going to be given away on Grants for the installation of Solar Panels over the next 5 years.
All that is going to happen is that short term cowboy type Companies will set themselves up as so called experts, to install this government grant madness, poor work will be the result, then they will disappear as fast as they started up when the Grants dry up. Customers will be left with poorly installed systems, or even worse, leaking roofs.
History suggests this happens every time the government cause a fake boom with these constant giveaway type programmes which are always in the long term poor value for money.
Tax payers being bribed yet again with their own money.
January 21, 2026
A year ago, in February 2025, Trump said he was “inclined” to go along with the Chagos agreement and that he had “a feeling that it’s going to work out very well”
Well, this week he insulted our PM Sir Kier Starmer by calling it “stupid” as he linked the Chagos Islands with his imperial decision to annex Greenland
Today Reuters is reporting that Hegseth, the US Secretary of Defence, has announced that the US will eliminate over 200 senior positions from the NATO entities that oversee and plan the alliance’s military and intelligence operations
Now we know what was agreed between Trump and the war criminal Putin during their infamous 40 minute private conversation in Trump’s limo in Alaska. The break-up of NATO, America’s withdrawal from Europe and more, which will doubtless be revealed shortly at Davos.
January 21, 2026
It would appear that the President got a comprehensive and accurate briefing from Nigel Farage … unlike the obfuscation and “reassurances” (which appear to have been downright lies) from Two-Tier and his representatives.
It is outrageous that Parliament (Commons and Lords) did not (could not?) block this Treaty before it was signed; are just asked to endorse it after the event. When it comes to Treaties which are selling out the UK a Prime Minister appears to have far too much individual power.The President still didnt understand the full idiocy as he thought the UK gets money for the deal!
President Trump needs to block this Treaty, not just voice his extreme concerns. He should have done it months ago.
Reply There have been various briefings sent to senior personnel in the US setting out the facts and dangers over many months. This week the US Speaker has been here in London and was briefed again by various people. According to the press he then spoke to the President. There was also briefing sent to the Treasury Secretary who has spoken out on this.
January 21, 2026
Claiming that opposing would lose, so a critical amendment a win and the outcome? Err The Treaty is still going ahead.
Head of a pin political chicanery. Loved by you and SW1. Meaningless to a mere populist.
Read Alison Pearson in the DT yesterday. Shows how out of touch/in denial ‘you ’ are about ‘broken Britain’.
Reply The Conservatives did not have the votes to defeat it! The aim was achieved of delaying and condemning.
January 21, 2026
Only 171 Conservative Peers out of a total of 282 voted for this “critical amendment”.
Reply And won, so good whipping
January 22, 2026
If whipping is required against true judgement then they fear for a free vote.
Reply Whipping did not need to persuade Conservative peers to vote the right way. Whipping was about getting enough Conservative peers to Westminster to vote compared to the numbers of peers from other parties who were voting against the motion. Lots of peers do not attend daily. It is not a paid job with a salary requiring attendance.
January 21, 2026
And publicity for the madness.
January 21, 2026
Maybe Trump could do a Greenland on the Chagos Islands and just take it ?
January 21, 2026
Trump is now opposed to the deal even though he is under the misapprehension that Mauritius is paying us rather than vice versa. An easy mistake for a private sector businessman, or indeed anyone sensible, to make. A Labour minister was on the radio saying the deal couldn’t be stopped because “it had already been signed” which is, of course, a lie as the treaty hasn’t been ratified so it can be stopped at any time. Starmer has yet to explan why he thinks the citizens of Greenland should be able to decide their own future but the Chagossians aren’t allowed to.
January 21, 2026
Giving away territory is appalling but if the population wishes it then sometimes it is the best move.
Interpreting international law to the detriment of your own country takes a special kind of betrayal.
January 21, 2026
+1 a betrayal
January 21, 2026
The Left in the UK take great pleasure in reminding us all about Britains colonial past. Here is a chance to put right one relatively small colonial error.
Britain in collusion with the USA evicted the Ilois people (now known as Chagossians) from Chagos in order to create the military base Diego Garcia.
We should hand the islands back to the Chagossians, whilst retaining the military base. There are many islands in the archipelago (around 60) The base could well be a source of employment.
January 21, 2026
Thanks for the explanation of the difference between the Lords critical vote and a 3rd reading vote and what difference that makes. Certainly something I had not appreciated and one which seems to make best sense given the situation.
January 21, 2026
The PM continues to show poor judgement in many important areas
I feel ashamed that he represents our country
President Trump is correct Europe is week and has failed to financially support NATO for decades
And what did they do with all the money they saved not contributing to NATO ?
January 21, 2026
Jobs and bonuses in Establishment, fat legal fees for mates, ‘mafia’ protection, build things nobody wants from business you have skin in, create Quangos for friends, sow seeds with money that might make comfortable retirement. Will that do for starters?
January 21, 2026
More ammunition for those who believe the PM is unfit for purpose. His mindset is focussed solely on all things that lay under legal headings and nothing else. He is, by profession, a HR lawyer and everything he does centres around A law whatever its source, it would appear.
This man places any law, guidance or recommendation from a foreign and unelected source above the aspirations of his own electorate in the UK.
Such anti-British principles have no place in OUR country so it’s time he made the UK great again or better still, departed Downing Street and moved back to Doughty Street where he once practised his real trade craft.
January 21, 2026
This Government, this Parliament is still hiding behind the lie of a thing they want to call International Law – there is and there never been such a thing.
The only legitimate legislators in the UK, Chagos is part of the UK, is our democratically elected legislators. The UK MPs and the UK Parliament. If it is given away by a Parliament that isn’t interested in the voices of those rightly seen as inhabitants of those Islands, and they see that their(MPs) job is to undermine the safety and security of the UK – then we don’t want those individuals(MPs) sitting as our Legislators. They should be named publicly and own their hate of the UK
There is a conspiracy theory that is suggesting that a cabal, a clique, one single club of UK Lawyers are about to make a large amount of money from the UK taxpayer by pushing out the lies to reinforce their position. As every day passes this theory begins to stack up as the only truth.
January 21, 2026
The other weird part of the deal from the Taxpayer perspective, 2TK is bankrolling the project from the Defence Budget. So, no men on the ground, no planes, no ships, no return and no safety and security for our trading routes – but big defence spending.
2TK could only find just one man with nothing on, so he could show solidarity with His(that His) EU Partners to send him to Greenland
January 21, 2026
A good way to comply with Trump’s request to raise defence spending to 5% without actually spending money on men and equipment. Just like service pensions count as military spending.
January 21, 2026
“Had they opted to vote against 3rd Reading instead they would have lost the vote and the government could claim the Lords supported their bad policy. Instead the Lords passed a very critical motion urging the government to change policy.”
According to the UK Parliament website:
“This regret motion cannot stop the bill from passing, but has put on record the House’s concern for the specified reasons.”
https://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2026/jan-2026/diego-garcia-bill-third-reading/
I could not see any votes cast by either Lord Cameron or Baroness May.
January 21, 2026
What of democracy, when self-determination is lost, indigenous people ignored, votes cancelled and manifesto thrown in the bin (my statement is true for both the Chagos Islands & UK)….the house of commons has become a nest of vipers
January 21, 2026
Hmmm… I wonder why?
The consumer prices index (CPI) rose from 3.2pc in November to 3.4pc in December, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
January 21, 2026
Andrew Rossindel said that officials at the Foreign Office have been try to give away Chagos for a long time. They seem to think that the Foreign Office is there to work for foreigners. If spending cuts are needed the FO would be a good place to start.
January 21, 2026
I thought I read that the Civil Service have said that many will quit their jobs if Reform win the next GE. So simply Reform winning will automatically reduce the size of the Civil Service. A win-win.
January 22, 2026
Wonderful news!
January 21, 2026
Absulutely. The whole idea is madness (as the (himself insane) president said.)
January 21, 2026
Another stupid decision.
The China Embassy, it’s not just the information they may get from the cables, it’s the possible damage they could do by blocking them from working properly (electronic pulses etc etc.) surely a much more simple task and risk.
Just let them build it on an alternative site away from sensitive areas, if all they want is a large building.
January 21, 2026
I agree, maybe in Shanghai?
January 22, 2026
Great opportunities in the abandoned north of England.
January 21, 2026
Don’t know why we’re referencing US President – he’s clearly not well as we saw on TV last evening.
January 21, 2026
NATO Boss Mark Rutte Stuns Davos: “Trump Is Right—We Must Defend the Arctic from Russia & China!
January 21, 2026
Why do you say, “too many people have commented on this issue without reading what has happened.”
It isn’t complex or subtle. It is very simple. Mauritius has no legal claim on the Chagos. Brotain behaved badly in forcing the resettlement of Chagossians to develop the base on Diego Garcia. Despite this the Chagossians want to remain British. The West, ie., the USA, needs the base in Diego Garcia to counter Communist Chinese influence and control of the Middle East, south Asia and Africa, ie most of the land surrounding the major trade routes of te world. Britain needs America to succeed in that. Britain can control the outcome as the territory is a British Overseas Territory.
Starmer ‘s Gang, with Hermer as a leading light, has chosen to side with Communist China, to trample on the right of the Chagossians to self-determination, one of the oldest established humnan rights, and to spit in the face of the United States, the sole guarantor of Western civilisation. It is not incompetence. It is deliberate.
It is just another part of the Starmer Gang’s hatred of Britain, its history, its foundations in Christianity and Judaism, its enterprising freedom loving people. Why? Because Starmer’s Gang:
1) is riddled with Fabians who believe nation states should be replaced with a global socialist order ruled by people like Starmer, Hermer and Reeves, and
2) believes Britain, as a former colonial power, is inherently evil and should pay reparations to the entire Third World, not merely those of the former British Empire. oin short it should be bankrupted as justiuce for the wrongs of its past.
Nobody hates Britain more than Starmer’s Gang. Whatever else they do, hatred is what they do best and hence their unholy alliance with Islamism. But that is another, equally destructive, story.
Reply The issue they misunderstand is what the Lords voted for. Starmer himself is not anti Jewish.
January 21, 2026
Starmer’s Chagos give away was always doomed to be dropped and now the opposition from all sides is deafening, another U Turn is inevitable. I suspect that Starmer is hoping that court action by the Chargosians will scupper the deal he stupidly signed up to.
One has to wonder just how his mind works over this case and the Chinese Embassy debacle !
With Chagos, it must be a combination of his overwhelming and uncritical support for the UN, and a great deal of pressure from Lord Heymer who represented Mauritious over the matter. The man shouldn’t be anywhere near the government with his past record for acting against our Country’s interests.
As for China, as a closet Marxist should we be surprised that Starmer supports our enemy?
The embassy deal should have been scrapped at least a year ago.
January 21, 2026
A time to smile or laugh out loud…. in the Telegraph “Reeves warns Trump not to push Britain around”
January 21, 2026
or else!
January 21, 2026
or else we’ll give the falklands to argentina and give them £100 billion ….so watch out trump
January 21, 2026
Mr Bessent also warned of “glitches” in the trade deal between the US and the UK as he said Sir Keir Starmer was “letting us down with the base on Diego Garcia” by handing the Chagos Islands over to Mauritius.
He said: “President Trump has made it clear that we will not outsource our national security or our hemispheric security to any other countries.
“Our partner in the UK is letting us down with the base on Diego Garcia, which we’ve shared together for many, many years, and they want to turn it over to Mauritius.”
The USA wont outsource its national security, BUT Kier Starmer with the backing of the UK Parliament will do just that on the matters of UK security with added malicious intent
January 21, 2026
Keir Starmer is working on the basis that Britain will have nothing to defend. He’s given London away, why worry about Indian Ocean islands?
January 21, 2026
howard lutnick just told davos similar to what I heard JD Vance say a few days ago. indian outsourcing is bad for the west. immigration is out of control. etc. hopefully UK politicians will realise that they are correct.
January 21, 2026
After 110 years of supporting the Europeans in men and equipment to defend itself the USA ask for Greenland and they say no.
PS Chagos USA air base being sold under there feet at the same time.
January 21, 2026
But we still expect the USA to put massive investment into these places that they don’t own.
Why would they do that?
January 21, 2026
We can’t expect anything more from the US after seeing today’s massive climbdown – they are not to be trusted in any shape or form – it only remains now for Europe with Britain to push ahead and build its own British and EU armed forces while Russia is weakened and while still have time
January 21, 2026
Trump said it loud and clear in Davos about:
immigration, Climate scam, windmills, oil, gas, taxation, electricity, investment, China, and foolish Governments.
January 21, 2026
He’s got his finger on the pulse …of the common man
January 21, 2026
Off-topic but very much related:
Chinese have been cutting off water and power supplies to our embassy in Beijing in order to force our compliance with their desire for their proposed new London embassy.
January 21, 2026
This is off topic but still a FO issue.
600,000 civilians (so far) have fled Kiev because there is no electricity in the dead of winter. There are multiple other massive cities like Kharkov in the same situation. There is no hope of restoring supply. The temperature on the Steppe is currently -7.
Most civilians in cities in Ukraine live in high rise apartment blocks, so you can’t even light a fire to boil a kettle.
With no Ukrainian Defence force the front line is now hundreds of miles wide and it looks as though from Sumy to Odessa will fall to Russia, including Kiev.
Perhaps the ‘brilliant NATO Allies’ can turn their attention from issues where they have no locus to trying to save a few Ukrainian lives – at last?
January 21, 2026
Seems like Starmer has been using an earlier test version of AI to ask how he can annoy Trump the most and please China at the same time!