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
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
Good morning.
Well, who’s next ?
February 19, 2026
@Mark B
Doubtless, the Isle of Wight
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
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
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
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
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.