It was a previous Labour government that signed a Treaty to establish the US/Uk joint base on the Chagos islands.It was a Labour government that ordered the islanders to leave their homeland. It is now a Labour government that gives the islands away without consulting the Chagossians. Worse still they now order Chagossians off their islands under threat of 3 years in prison and forceful eviction.
This is the government’s worst deed to date. A government that says it has no power to detain or deport strangers with no UK connections or rights arriving illegally at Dover asserts the right to evict people from their former homeland for the second time.
The disgraceful contradictions abound. This government said it wanted to give away the Chagos out of colonial guilt. Yet it is trying to do so yet again ignoring and abusing the islanders pit did treat badly in the 1960 s. It cannot stand a single local returning to a Chagos island away from the Diego base, yet it countenances Mauritius and maybe the Chinese being free to settle the other islands. It thinks it can throw islanders off their islands but claims it cannot stop illegals coming to the UK and demanding free hotels.
All this is immoral and deeply anti British.
February 19, 2026
there is almost certainly some big corrupt payments taking place, the UK is getting to be very corrupt
February 19, 2026
Deeply anti British. That sums up these clowns in a nutshell.
I served my country for 9 years, 6 in nuclear submarines and was proud to do so. I wouldn’t lift a finger for this pile of filth in Westminster who are a total embarrassment.
We can’t afford another 3 years of this wholesale corruption.
February 19, 2026
We know that eight million pounds are shared between Starmer’s lawyer pals, including Philippe Sands, for their part in the process. Perhaps there are other amounts we are not aware of.
February 19, 2026
Perhaps there are also promises of future “deals/amounts” …. after the treachery has been completed.
February 19, 2026
tip of iceberg?
February 19, 2026
@iain gill & Ian Wragg, @Peter, @Donna, @MT
Every outsider smells a rat, yet those we have empowered and paid in this Parliament to hold the Excitative to account, by their in actions think it is the new norm. Lies accepted, corruption accepted.
February 19, 2026
You are boring when you become party political.
February 19, 2026
Politics is party political.
You have no defence of this disgraceful Starmer administration.
They don’t believe in native populations having rights at all.
They think they own the world and can buy and sell it at will.
Time they were confronted by the majority who are fed up to the back teeth!
February 19, 2026
This is not party political – you’re interpretation reflects your own views.
Regardless of party, giving the islands away was looked at by the Tories squashed by Cameron and re-started by Labour.
This is just disgusting reprehensible behaviour on the part of our Govt.
I hope the Chagossians appeal to the USA and the USA supports them.
We should not be making them refugees twice.
February 19, 2026
There’s nothing party political about exposing corruption at the highest level.
February 19, 2026
I agree. In foreign policy we often treat foreigners abominably: steal their resources, starve them, bomb them, force cultural changes upon them. We have usually had a reason/excuse that many if not most of us accept, be it self interest or a belief in our moral superiority. We may accept it reluctantly but accept it we do.
In this case we are doing something really cruel that harms us and the foreigners. We’ve compounded our damage: grab their land, evict them summarily with no effective compensation, pay another foreign state to take it, try to lock the inhabitants up if they return.
Worse still our government claims the moral high ground, appealing to a technocrat’s vision of “international law”. It just goes to show how dangerous, immoral and cruel our leadership is, and how they put their misguided beliefs above anyone else’s, including us. They are psychopathic.
February 19, 2026
The first victims of tyrannical government are their own citizens, so I disagree with the use of “we”.
I accept no personal responsibility, blame, guilt or demands for reparations for what the governing tribe has done, is doing or will do.
Voting for someone might imply some responsibility but when they lie, deceive and mislead all bets are off. The individuals responsible for the decisions and actions are responsible and should be the ones to pay the consequences.
Unfortunately the consequences to these individuals are never anywhere near as dire as the consequences to the victims of their actions so it simply continues.
February 19, 2026
Good morning.
Well, who’s next ?
February 19, 2026
@Mark B
Doubtless, the Isle of Wight
February 19, 2026
No chance, they want the tax income.
February 19, 2026
The House of Lords could vote this disgraceful “deal” down. It wasn’t in the Manifesto; there is no real justification for it. So why haven’t their Lordships done that?
We should not have to rely on President Trump to veto it. Although his statement yesterday was welcome, it was STILL not a veto.
I suspect that a great many powerful and fanatically anti-British people who are in, or close to this Government, are personally enriching themselves on the back of this “deal.”
Reply Only the Conservatives wanted to vote it down and Conservatives are a minority. Conservatives did manage to get Lib Dems to join in a vote asking government to drop the idea.
February 19, 2026
Reply to reply-also those who cannot be mentioned, starting with R and ending with m. They’ll probably be the party which, as for council elections, finally nail 2TK again to U turn via POTUS. Conservatives and Libdem bit part actors.
February 19, 2026
Trump has given many hints to Starmer that giving Chagos away is a bad idea. He won’t tell Starmer what to do. It’s Starmer’s decision. However I have no doubt that Trump has whispered in Starmers shell like ear what he would do if the giveaway is not pulled.
February 19, 2026
There is a treaty, Trump can tell Starmer what to do.
Starmer refusing to allow the USA to use its own bases in the U.K.
This is unprecedented.
February 19, 2026
And this is the Prime Minister that defended the rights of Greenlanders to self-determination.
This man is a an ideological hypocrite.
February 19, 2026
He’s 2TK(For EU use only), didn’t ya know?
February 19, 2026
It is firstly strategically inept to put under threat a joint base from which serioous power can be wielded in a very unstable part of the World.
It is sovereign British territory which Labour is bent on dicarding to a distant regime of very questionable integrity while paying them a vast sum of money it does not have. It is treachory aimed at the iinterests of the UK, our closest ally the USA, and it is the final act of inhumanity to the Chargosian people. It is threaded with such malign intent that it is reasonable to ask what is in it for Starmer and his cohorts. Did he collect his final orders while in China.
Yesterday I outlined what should happen. We should despatch a RFA ship with materials, eqipment, and a body of Royal Engineers to establish a settlement where a nucleus of Chargosians have landed. All displaced Chargosians in Mauritious and the UK should be offered repatriation. We should, after consultation, give them fishing equipment. Medical, educational support, and business support should follow.
Labour should hang its head in shame for the human rights disaster they have created and seem intent on perpetuating. It is the catholic rape of the Caribean in microcosm.
February 19, 2026
@agricola – if only, but as we have all seen by Mr Two Tier Law the rightful inhabitants have been threatened with £3000 fines and 3 Years in jail for upsetting the UK Cabal of a legal gravy train
February 19, 2026
And it wouldn’t cost the tax-payer £100M pa to do so either AG….
February 19, 2026
I wish we could send an RFA ship. But at present we have RFAs swinging at anchor with no crews. It seems like everything is broken these days.
As to Sir Keir Starmer, what kind of young man volunteers to go behind the Iron Curtain to work on a socialist youth project? The man was clearly a Communist sympathiser then. What is he now? As a young lawyer he was all in favour of the abolition of the monarchy. Has he changed?
We have not had a decent government since 1990, but this shower has to be one of the worst we have ever had. Absolutely everything they have done has been wrong and against the interests of the British people. I find it hard to believe that that can happen by accident.
February 19, 2026
We must rely on president trump to rescue the uk and the west from this appalling surrender by labour. It’s probably a mixture of colonial guilt, the pernicious influence of starmer’s leftwing lawyer friend(s) who it is reported have made £ millions from this process, and the overall general kowtow to china. Its essential labour are kicked out at the next election.
February 19, 2026
What kind of sloppy lawyer would overlook the treaty between the US and UK that requires the islands to remain UK sovereign territory?
February 19, 2026
@Richard1 +1
Although the next election because we are denied a proper democracy is at least 3 year away. Reflecting on the damage already done and not 2 years have past, things could be irreversible by then. Trump who came to power after 2TK is faced with a confirmation election this year and then has to stand and be counted again in another 2years. That is 3 what we would call elections to verify/approve of the directions their leaders and House of Representatives are taken in less time than one UK obscene term.
February 19, 2026
If anyone was in any doubt about the sinister nature of the Labour Party and its long held hatred of Britain/ Britain’s history, this latest act of hostility, giving away the Chagos Islands to ease Labour’s colonialist conscience should remove all doubts. Arresting the native residents to do so is an act of pure vindictiveness by Starmer and shows how determined and dangerous he is.
February 19, 2026
@Rod Evans +1
February 19, 2026
The Government’s swiftly served eviction notice to the Chagos Islanders occupying their own territory highlights the enormity of what was done to them by a previous Labour government in the 1960s, and to what depths another Labour government under an international human rights lawyer, Sir Keir Starmer, can stoop to further its shameful determination to appease the Chinese, waste £35 billion of taxpayers’ money, threaten a marine conversation area and imperil the defence of the Anglo-American base on Diego Garcia, all on the basis of a confected legal opinion which has no standing in international law and is opposed by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
I wish the Chagos Islanders every success in their endeavour to reoccupy the islands.
February 19, 2026
Doesn’t this suggest that Starmer cares more for the aspirations of China than natives of Chagos, indeed Starmer has been kowtowing to China from the beginning of his reign and giving them incentives – a bit like a begging cup.
He is certainly more inline with what China does than what British history demands.
Didn’t he pull the bill from the Lords when it was found out that it would contradict treaties with the USA. Whatever he does next will define him, but if he continues to persecute the natives of Chagos it is likely that will be the final straw for him.
February 19, 2026
Just give it back to the Chagos islanders and tell Trump he has to get his stuff out that we are not taking any more lectures from him. And if we can’t do that then we are indeed the vassal state that Rubio talks about – so if this is the case then there is no point in discussing further.
February 19, 2026
We can’t. The USA paid for the military infrastructure on our island, there is a treaty, you can understand why Trump wants to own Greenland outright.
February 19, 2026
Quote, This is the government’s worst deed to date. A government that says it has no power to detain or deport strangers with no UK connections or rights arriving illegally at Dover asserts the right to evict people from their former homeland for the second time Unquote.
Exactly, the hypocrisy of Starmer and his rabble is breathtaking.
February 19, 2026
It’s their most revealing action to date…
February 19, 2026
It only takes Trump to need DG for military ops against Iran and this deal is toast. Hopefully Starmer too.
February 19, 2026
This matter is too serious to be made a political football of, it would be better if some fresh thinking was brought forward instead if this forever sniping.
February 19, 2026
Yes.
And for once I am in agreement with the Orange Monster.
How can we stop this madness?
February 19, 2026
“We are the Left.
Lower your firewalls and surrender your data.
You will accept our political and ideological distinctiveness as your own.
Your culture will be adapted to service us.
Resistance is futile.”
You cannot debate or pursuade these people because they have a hive mind. No other beliefs can be tolerated or allowed to exist. You can choose either to be assimilated or destroyed. The Chagossians don’t want to be assimilated and therefore they must be destroyed.
February 19, 2026
My understanding is that Labours treatment of the Chagossians alone breaks those famous International Laws and UN Charters this highly driven legal crowd so admire. Before any thing else it makes them the party of World class hypocrites.
The other disturbing out come of all this it is not Parliament, it MPs, that is protecting this Country and its People, it is the President of the United State that has been left that task.
Then the burning question is why? Who gains, who profits? It sounds as with all thing from the Parliament as if the are feeding(literally) before any other concerns what is called the UK Legal System
February 19, 2026
From my perspective we have had anti-British governments, establishment, politicians and media for as long as I have been old enough to vote.
EIther the socialist tribe destroys or gives everthing away dreaming of some unobtainable communitarian utopia while pilfering our pockets and lining theirs. In not much of a contrast the individualistic “conservative” tribe conserve and protect nothing unless it is in their own interests.
Individuals in those tribes may vary but the rest of us lose out regardless.
February 19, 2026
What do you expect of a Trotskyite turned humans right lawyer, a man filled with hatred and no moral compass leading a gang of like minded Fabians who hate the nation state and want instead a global socialist order in which humans are reduced to meat units to be shunted around as required.
And the worst of it is that Britain’s constitution provides the public with no means of riddng the country of these evil people. Instead the public must wait to see whether Starmer’s Gang ever deigns to allow Britons another vote on who they want in parliament and government. We could be in for a very long wait.
February 19, 2026
In support, I’m going to buy a t-shirt today with the flag of the chagos island on it
February 19, 2026
Quite so Lord J. – the Labour Party should hang its head in shame.
In the light of recent revelations about ‘practices’ being done for personal enrichment at the expense of this country’s interest, are we sure that this attempted Chagos move is as clean as the Government seems to claim?
February 19, 2026
Its a sad day when we have to rely upon the USA to save us from our own government, also why hasn’t the UN backed the UK claim that the ‘deal’ had to be done, following an advisory UN court decision ….its gone quiet at the UN
February 19, 2026
What a sour, miserable lot this Labour Government and its MPs are. A weak PM, who is a total hypocrite, and obviously hates the UK and its people.
No sane PM or Government would give away the Chagos Islands, and even worse then pay for the privilege!
But what were our Civil Servants doing, even talking about it?
Blair and Brown were bad, but Starmer, Harmer and Reeves are even worse. To borrow from the Beatles’ hit, Starmer is a nowhere man!
Let’s hope President Trump kills the Chagos giveaway stone dead.
February 19, 2026
In the Media
“Starmer ‘will defy Trump”
“Alex Davies-Jones, the victims minister, insisted the Prime Minister would “deliver” on the deal and bring the legislation back to Parliament as soon as possible.”
In Starmer’s 2 Tier Society, of course he will, there is a big payday for the anti-UK Legal establishment.
There is a real ‘bad smell’ here
February 19, 2026
In the other corner
“Six unmarked police cars and around eight plain-clothed officers,”
“Former duke held on suspicion of misconduct in public office after police raid Sandringham and Windsor homes.
Allegations that he shared sensitive information with Epstein”
Lord Peter Mandelson(still a Lord?) also involved in allegations he shared market-sensitive government information with Epstein. Still getting on with life.
? What happens when you give away UK Taxpayer money to help fund loyal friends and ex-collogues. You give away Sovereign UK Territory. You deny peoples rights of a homeland under international laws. – answer nothing you have the majority of support from 849 in the upper house, and 650 democratically elected members in the lower chamber.
It is the UK Political Establishment that has been dragged into disrepute, dragged down into the gutter by those trying to destroy the Nation. Very Marxist, all of them, destroy to build in ones own personal image
February 19, 2026
Could not agree more.
I’m afraid this is the last King, but they will not be missed. The PM can read his own speech at the opening of Parliament.
Restore is recruiting a full book of talented ‘normal’ people as candidates and honestly we have noting left to lose, we have to support those who want the British nation to survive and are prepared to make it happen.
February 19, 2026
Happy with that; we don’t even need to replace the position or creat a new one, we don’t need a president or another elite figure head ….The deputy PM or head of the Lords can meet & greet any foreign politcian
February 19, 2026
It is despicable and proves the point, the Starmer government is unfit for purpose.
February 19, 2026
Totally agree
February 19, 2026
Very unfair treatment. I would feel very betrayed in their position. I don’t know how I’d cope. Where are they expected to go?
February 19, 2026
As we are learning from the Epstein story there are many people who consider themselves so elite that laws do not apply to them.
February 19, 2026
Today the media is reporting that the Maldieves is objecting to 2TK’s giveaway. As the Chagos is closer to their territory than it is to Mauritius. A similar British protectorate background obtaining independance around the same time, the Maldieves see they have the same rights to Chagos.
They would sooner Chagos stayed British, but will stake a claim if it is to be ditched
February 19, 2026
Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu has formally rejected the UK’s agreement to transfer sovereignty of Chagos to Mauritius, together with the entire legal basis of Keir Starmer’s proposal. He has called the deal “reckless” and an infringement on Maldivian territorial integrity and he has asserted that historical and archaeological evidence proves Chagos is an integral part of the Maldives, with no links to Mauritius.
February 19, 2026
More pettiness from the PM
Starmer blocks Trump from using RAF bases to strike Iran. A tit-for-tat responce over saying the Chagos deal is madness. It could be read that he is so desperate to support his anti-British pals and collegues over the Chagos deal he will go to any lengths
February 19, 2026
Yes it’s all deeply sinister too. We might have had to fight off a challenge in the courts to keep the islands otherwise. Dear oh dear. Trump’s timing is nice, coinciding with the revelation of embarrassing old foreign office documents to give Starmer etc maximum grief. But let’s not count our u-turns, the more the merrier.
February 20, 2026
It is nothing to do with guilt. If you ask me it is all about money. They are making money out of this deal I am sure of it and all will be revealed if people keep plugging at it. This government has proved it has no morals, ethics or respect for the country they say they love and want to represent.