Sloppy legal advice coupled with a wish to punish the UK for imagined sins of colonialism led to the ridiculous idea of giving away the Chagos islands. The advocates wrongly thought the International Court of Justice could make us surrender them, when our sign up to that court exempted Commonwealth and defence matters. They failed to see that the UK is bound in international law by the US/UK Diego Treaty to keep the freehold of the islands all the time the US has a base there. They wanted to give the Chagos to Mauritius, 1200 miles away and never the owner of the islands. This would have made Chagossians colonists of another foreign country. The so called champions of de colonisation ended up ordering the Chagossians to keep away from their islands that a previous Labour government had evicted them from!
I pay tribute to those who helped fight and win this battle to keep Chagos and to support the Chagossians. Adam Holloway and leading Chagossians were brave and determined, going there and re re establishing settlement on the islands. A group raised money and fought a court case in the UK courts on their behalf, and forced the government to delay and to think again. The Lords produced a spirited opposition to the legislation and pointed out that the government could not advance its Mauritius sell out Treaty before it had amended or cancelled the US Treaty.
The right answer would be to let the Chagossians who wish return to suitable islands away from Diego Garcia to do so, and to help them. The US should be reassured that we will keep the freehold of our joint base, and continue to keep the seas near it free of fishing vessels and spies. The marine environment should continue to be fully protected. We would save the £35 bn this government was foolishly planning to give away to retain use of the base over the years ahead.
April 12, 2026
Good Morning,
Let’s hope this terrible plan is now dead.
Sloppy legal advice? If so we need a new Attorney General. My suggestion would be to ‘follow the money’. We need a bit of investigative journalism on this story.
Long live free Chagosians!
April 12, 2026
You know as well as anyone Starmer together with Hermer will continue to try and compete the deal
Too much money has changed hands now and the Mauritius government plans ti sue the UK for loss of earnings. This will be an excuse to carry on giving away the islands as Starmergeddon will say it’s the cheapest option
There’s no lengthh these cowboys won’t stoop too, to get their way.
Remember they’ve only got 3 years to get rid of Gibraltar and the Falklands together with all that oil.
Can’t have an oil discovery messing net zero figures so better Argentina is attributed to the emissions.
April 12, 2026
@Ian Wragg
Another of your posts which smacks of panic – at the prospect of being unable to drive your ICE car when petrol rationing is introduced. This morning unleaded near me is £1.87 a litre already
I frequently have trouble reading your posts because of the poor spelling and awful English grammar
Do try to keep a level head. Panic stricken rants about how it’s all net zero’s fault are unhelpful
April 12, 2026
Just filled up at Asda. £1.51. Sorry about my grammar and syntax but I find texting cumbersome.
No doubt you have staff to prepare your ill researched posts. If you’re happy hey ho
Theatre tonight, no driving and a few sherberts so enjoy your day.
April 12, 2026
Actually I hate these new computers which divide the keys into up and lower parts. I’m lucky to hit the right key at all, and have to watch my fingers (both of them) on the keyboard.
Then the preemptive confused changes some of my words for what it thinks I should have said.
However it’s the ideas that matter and I always read your posts Ian. I can’t say the same for all those who post comments if not ideas on this blog.
April 12, 2026
Well I agree it cannot “all” be blamed on net zero’s but circa 90% is clearly due to this mad deluded religion and legal obstacles and delays to drilling, fracking, nuclear plants, coal… A delusion that all governments have followed to a degree from John ERM Major onwards. Even Thatcher fell for it for a brief period.
A shame they could not find a decent physicist or engineer to explain some reality to them. But clearly they only wanted to listen or appoint the daft or dishonest ones who told them what they wanted to hear.
April 12, 2026
About 90p (half) of that £1.87 is tax SG, so Ms Reeves could afford to provide some relief without it costing her anything that she wasn’t already getting a month ago. Of course, if petrol & diesel tax receipts really dry up because of EVs – then I have a suspicion that Ms Reeves will start looking a lot more closely at taxing EVs more….so I wouldn’t crow too soon.
In the meanwhile, even at £1.87 I’m still well ahead with my £10,000+ (of “free” petrol) that I saved when I didn’t buy that Tesla four years ago. What’s yours worth now btw? 🙂
April 12, 2026
Gosh imagine when there are electric ‘consumption controls’ and they download the energy in your battery to boost their dwindling stock.
I know we will all extend condolences to Mr Cold.
April 12, 2026
PS Maybe you should also move to Wokingham too SG – Tesco’s petrol is £1.559 here at the moment (so my £10K will last a bit longer.. )
April 12, 2026
Good to see today we are exporting power at £25 per mwh after importing it all week at £125.
Goid business model
Buy high, sell low. Only Britain could be so stupid.
April 12, 2026
+1
April 12, 2026
@Ian Wragg
More rubbish
Based on data from 2024-2026, typical import prices are often determined by market conditions in connected countries, with peak prices on NordPool hitting around £979/MWh in 2025
A significant volume of imports occurs when prices are high, often in the £95-£150/MWh range, though many transactions have occurred lower
Conversely, high renewable output in Europe frequently results in negative prices, where the UK is paid to take electricity
Due to the lack of gas storage here the UK has imported record amounts of power last winter, with total monthly spending around £250 million. The total value of the electricity produced in this country in 2023 – from all sources – was nearly £172bn. £250m is about 0.15% or roughly 8.5p a month on the average energy bill
Do try and keep up with the facts about Britain’s energy supply. If you can’t understand it, then don’t bother commenting
April 12, 2026
Do you understand that we have not needed to store gas? We pump it as required.
Do keep up, you have never once, to my knowledge, changed your bigoted mind in the light of new information.
It is very tedious reading your posts.
I don’t read most, but poor JR must do. No idea how he manages.
April 13, 2026
Gridwatch Energy Supply … 0615 13 April.
Gas – 44%
Inter-connectors – 19% (costing us a fortune)
Wind – 13% (heavily subsidised)
Biomas (trees) – 8%
Solar – big fat zero (a heavily subsidised big fat zero)
April 12, 2026
All reflected in our domestic energy bills
April 12, 2026
@Peter Wood – ‘Long live free Chagosians!’
April 12, 2026
Well said Peter
April 12, 2026
They failed to see that the UK is bound in international law by the US/UK Diego Treaty to keep the freehold of the islands all the time the US has a base there. They wanted to give the Chagos to Mauritius
There you have it folks a government not fit for purpose you-turn number 20 I think, watch out for the next announcement that England is giving Northern Ireland back to to Irish you couldn’t make it up
April 12, 2026
Gibraltar, the Falklands…
Lammy also wanting to pay reparations for slavery. Sir Lenny Henry and co-author Marcus Ryder called for £18–£19 trillion in slavery reparations to be paid by Britain to Black Britons and Caribbean nations circa £680,000 per household in the UK.
So Wes Streeting says he is ashamed of corridor care as crack teams sent to worse hospitals. Is he also ashamed of the UK’s appalling maternity care levels, is he ashamed of the vast net damage done by the Covid “Vaccines” and the governments refusal to release the honest statistics on this? Is he ashamed that Lucy Letby has twice been refused any appeal by six appeal court judges for her 15 very clearly unsafe convictions?
The Covid vaccines were even given to people to the young and people who had already had Covid. These people clearly had zero need for them even had they been remotely “safe and effective”. What wonderful “experts” and “vaccine” regulators we had/have. What a great idea for them to be hugely funded and influences by big Pharma. Is he also ashamed for the sick joke £230m Baroness Hallett Covid Inquiry?
April 12, 2026
Good to see Jacob Rees-Mogg’s nice old Bentley in his latest video – he has also branched out into reviewing Easter Egg’s with his daughter. Rather more interesting than anything much on the anti-Semitic, anti Trump, pro EU, pro open door immigration, climate alarmist, Net Zero BBC.
Stop the War on the Motorist
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April 12, 2026
Collecting taxes by mugging motorists is a hugely inefficient and damaging way to collect taxes! Another reason not to bother working and live off benefits or leave the country!
April 12, 2026
I did a calculation a little while ago and determined the proportion of midwife vacancies in the NHS was significantly less than the proportion of births to foreign mothers. What is needed is private healthcare for foreign people; to access the NHS you have to be British (the “N” in NHS).
April 12, 2026
Worth looking at Wes Streeting’s constituency; he won his seat by 500 odd votes against a pro-palestinian activist in 2024. What chance does he have retaining it, come the next GE. Such is the state of our democracy…..
April 12, 2026
Cameron as Foreign Secretary blocked the negotiations. Did HE know about the UK/USA Treaty?
It looks to me as thought this was a Foreign Office policy which was revived the minute they got a “tame” Labour Government to control.
April 12, 2026
Have all those campaigning to rejoin the EU read the Maastricht Treaty? – The part that says nation’s debt to GDP ratio must be no more than 60%.
April 13, 2026
The terms of EU Treaties only apply when they want them to.
April 12, 2026
Actually Northern Ireland has joined the Free State in its monumental battle against its very own two tier globalist bullies.
The Irish want to leave the EU, expel the illegals, dispense with their whole political class.
If they manage that we should all think of joining them!
April 12, 2026
Good morning.
The damage has already been done. From Gibraltar to our bases in Cyprus, and from there to the Falkland Islands and beyond, the UK is now seen as weak and uninterested in its colonial possessions’. We have been holed diplomatically below the waterline and the added damage to UK / US relations. TTK is seen not just at home but abroad as well as a joke. The whole Chagos affair was just a favour to be done for TTK mates and not in our national interest. Think on that if you will.
One does not wish ones life away but, these coming May Elections cannot come soon enough as it will see, if not the immediate end, but the beginning of it for a man who, much like Johnson, is not fit for public office and must be gone.
April 12, 2026
Indeed but almost certainly three more years to suffer under this appalling Labour Party and even then:- even if we do then get a decent government with a clear majority it will take at least 10 years to turn things round with the blob and much of the Lords fighting all the way.
Se Britain Needs a New Restoration by David Starkey video. A great shame Cameron chose to build on the vast damage done by Blair and Brown rather than reverse any of it.
April 12, 2026
+1
April 12, 2026
@Mark B – the damage to UK/US relations is deliberate and malicious its about whipping up storms to create a wedge between us. The ultimate Marxist WEF ‘Great Reset’ and the UK as a fully embedded EU State – called the ‘Plan’
April 12, 2026
What happens to those who sought to damage our interests so maliciously?
April 12, 2026
Promotion or very good pensions usually!
April 12, 2026
….and bonus payment
April 12, 2026
Must stop.
April 12, 2026
I hope this is the end of Starmers attempted giveaway of Chagos, though I’m not totally confident.
It’s absolutely astonishing that a Labour government (the gov. of the working class) began the eviction of the Chagossians. Albeit it was completed under Heath’s Gov.
Now Starmer has tried to hand the islands away. Following up by arguing the Chagossians have no right to return.
This is a former human rights lawyer, trampling all over the human rights of Chagossians.
But then it is TTK!
April 12, 2026
The dire TTKier indeed. Hand away? Rather worse hand alway with a huge dowry and with the Chinese almost certainly slowly taking them over.
April 12, 2026
@Old Albion – unfortunately delayed, just delayed. While your ‘Global Statesman’ regroups and the USA get to have more(2 more) elections to change things while the UK gets none. Parliament gets to proceed without a mandate or democracy to support them. As @Peter Wood suggested ‘follow the money’
In any free society, democratic society, a one Law for all society – there are those that even with the slightest hint of conflict they would recuse themselves. The UK’s new TwoTier Law turns that on its head, position is used to change what was meant to be what you personally mean when you have power. A UK Parliament in disrepute
April 12, 2026
As Trump and Netanyahu’s war of aggression against the Ayatollah regime reaches the “ceasefire” stage, a focus on the big picture is critical for investors as inflation, tariffs, war, a wildly overvalued stock market and the American debt ceiling horrors dominate the investing landscape
The US government refused to announce national emergency spending cuts. Instead, they launched illegal, inflationary tariff taxes on American trading partners. These de facto pirates are now chanting that they’re ready to steal the oil from 90 million Iranian citizens. Even if they got all that oil, it wouldn’t stop them from going even deeper into debt, while scapegoating innocent citizens around the world for their own financial mismanagement – causing even more central banks and money managers to dump US Treasuries and buy gold
Having expended a reported 35% of the Pentagon’s ammunition stocks, Trump has now submitted an emergency $1.5 TRILLION defence spending budget (a 40% increase) and proposes to scrap both Medicaid and Medicare to pay for it. Which will certainly ensure that American seniors and those who do not have medical insurance will vote Democrat in the November mid-term elections
April 12, 2026
SG no doubt you would be very happy if that was the case but only in your head.
April 12, 2026
Meanwhile, the Irish are getting a very painful lesson in what the Net Zero Insanity and “just stop oil” means …. and are kicking off big-time.
The wheels are coming off the Net Zero bandwagon …..
April 12, 2026
They are trying to stop the dictatorship from accessing these commodities which they themselves can no longer afford, because of the 60% tax.
April 12, 2026
Yes partly to “The right answer would be to let the Chagossians who wish return to suitable islands away from Diego Garcia to do so, and to help them.” But also decolonise those Islands: give the Chagossians back their land. We grabbed it as a colonial power and don’t even need most it.
As for Diego, if there’s room, let them inhabit the non-base areas. It could be like Guantanamo base in Cuba, de jure their soverign territory but de facto US, with a modest annual payment for the privelege (but no eviction rights).
April 12, 2026
@ Wanderer
The Chagos – Diego Garcia issue is a bit of a political red herring because the Royal Navy couldn’t defend the islands and that’s probably why Labour wanted to get rid of them
April 12, 2026
Any comment on what the Royal Navy can defend? Not the Chanel shores for certain.
April 12, 2026
They don’t ned to SG – the Americans will do the neccessary, as it’s in their best interests to do so. A rational approach to foreign affairs, something our “government” don’t seem to understand..
April 12, 2026
Diego García is an atoll. I am sure we (the UK) could ask President Trump as a former developer of prestigious buildings to build floating residential quarters for the returning Chagossians there in the middle of it.
April 12, 2026
Diego Garcia is the military base on the Chagos islands.
April 12, 2026
We are told that although the Tories started the negotiations to transfer Chagos, Cameron, as Foreign Secretary, blocked it.
No sooner was Two-Tier in No.10 then the proposal was revived. That implies it was someone senior in the Foreign Office who was pushing the deal. The Permanent Secretary needs to be held to account for the Foreign Office actions, as does the person/people giving the dodgy legal advice.
Finally, we need to know where the money has gone – because this attempted act of treachery has already cost British taxpayers a small fortune, so who’s got it? (words keft out ed)
As for Two-Tier …. he claimed that it was essential to hand the islands to Mauritius “because International Law.” No it wasn’t …. so he “misled” both Parliament and the British people. The Speaker should force him to retract his statements; apologise for misleading Parliament ….. and he should resign. (Fat chance of any of them happening).
April 12, 2026
But the government hasn’t given up on the giveaway, it’s only a delay. They’ll presumably continue to pressure the Americans to fall in line.
April 12, 2026
The whole thing was a disgrace!
Now HMG has sent a contingent of pen pushers to the island to stop them getting food and other resources.
James Tumbridge, the Attorney General for the Chagossian Government-in-exile, has submitted an urgent appeal to the UN human rights commissioner, while UN officials are investigating claims that the Prime Minister is committing a “crime against humanity” by seeking to remove the indigenous Chagossian people from their homeland.
It would be a suitable irony if the UN chose to use international law against our wayward and despicable PM.
April 12, 2026
It’s good to know that the MoD police are so efficient as to be able to confiscate solar-powered fresh water producing apparatus from a supply boat to the Chagossians on behalf of our human rights obsessed government, who put 50,000 other illegal migrants up in 4-star hotels. These four clearly landed on the wrong beaches.
April 13, 2026
They made the fundamental error of keeping their British passports.
April 12, 2026
+1
April 12, 2026
The so called progressive left may have reached the zenith of their malicious influence.
Starmer and the rest who present International Law as their guiding light even when that international law has no actual authority or jurisdiction in matters of national security.
Also the so called International law has no means of enforcing its rulings and never will.
The reasons for the Starmer actions in favour of the Chinese Communist Party are puzzling and need to be studied closely. There are decisions happening not least of which involves the new Chinese Embassy complex in a very strategic part of London, which Starmer or possibly the Labour Party in the round are championing.
Starmer has refused to proscribe the Iranian terrorist group the IRGC despite every major Western nation doing so. He has declared Israel a hostile nation refusing to even visit during his latest trip overseas? He has allowed Hamas supporting demonstrations to grow and persist across London every week since the Oct 7 2023 massacre, and yes I am aware Rishi Sunak was PM and allowed the nonsense to gestate initially. The nation voted Sunak out of office for his failures, Starmer is even worse and more ‘progressive’.
We have a PM who is unfit for office, can we afford to wait until the next election to get rid of him? He must go.
April 12, 2026
@Rod +99
NO!
April 12, 2026
Indeed, follow the money/legal fees etc. is surely the best advice here as perhaps too with the vast Chinese Embassy go ahead!
We have had many PMs unfit for the office the vast majority over my lifetime but Starmer is certainly top trumps in this. So whom would you prefer? Scum, scum, scum Rayner, deluded climate zealot and rip off energy Ed Miliband or perhaps Wes Streeting (who might actually want to do a few sensible things but would never be allowed to do them by the mad and bitter Labour party.
April 12, 2026
Red ED – I don’t think he could take the pressure as it builds up against net-0 and the economy sinking. Attacks would not just be personal but targeted at the main person responsible, and I’m sure he would cave in.
If someone else becomes PM he won’t be so much in focus – pile the stress on him I say.
April 12, 2026
Very Very pleased we are keeping The Chagos Islands and well said sir
April 12, 2026
Will we be able to defend them with our tiny handful of working naval ships?
April 12, 2026
Sanity prevails – welcome the Chagossians back and let them have all the freehold they wish outside of the Air and Naval bases I am sure that a lot of these people may even get civilian jobs working alongside the military which would be a Win Win for all.
April 12, 2026
Great to hear Wes Streeting speaking out and challenging the lies and rubbish being put out by President Trump on social media – we need more of this.
April 12, 2026
An excellent result, and a shout out to President Trump who seems to have struck the crucial killer blow to Starmer’s and Hermer’s plan in effect to hand this crucial strategic territory to China + give away yet more UK taxpayers’ money. Very amusing to see Starmer, Hermer et al humiliated as they try to disadvantage our Country and the West. If we’d had Biden, Harris Obama etc as President the islands would have gone.
April 12, 2026
What message did this ridiculous proposal send out to the world? “Britain is now open to exploitation”.
Sure enough, the slave reparations activists came out of their cells exploiting OUR country to pay a population for the supposed sins of our forefathers 200 years ago. How can anyone pay damages to a person who is two centuries dead? Who, in 2026, can prove their relationship to a slave in 1800? What next, do we claim from France for the invasion of the Normans?
As for our barrister Human Rights Lawyer, PM. Given his failings to read the LEAGAL treaties regarding the Chagos, how did he ever become DPP? How did he ever manage to take silk?
He is a laughing stock around the world and has taken the country down with him.
Save the country, sack him and his government. These megalomaniacs refuse to go quietly.
April 12, 2026
Lord Redwood.
It has of course descended into another Parliament/Government/2TK farce. Knowing, and I’m going from the track record to date, the man we call Two Tier Kier has not actually cancelled the project for ( whatever reason ed)from the UK Taxpayer. Instead, he has delayed they actions needed, seemingly to fabricate some other reasons for this taxpayer money to be thrown away.
As the UK doesn’t do elections and its Parliament doesn’t need to seek confirmation of direction or a mandate, it would appear that the USA would before such elections are called in the UK had another 2 confirmation votes. 2TK appears to be hoping with fingers crossed he can mislead another leader(if he can support change again like he did last time)of the USA and push the deal through before he is obliged to ask the UK’s electorate what they think of him and his majority Parliament.
April 12, 2026
It is part of the same mentality that thinks we must be better of in the EU: anything must be better than what we might feel would be the action for our own best interests. Logic or intellectual rigour play no part in it.
April 12, 2026
PM, let’s call it correctly, the TwoTierKier PM, has sent British Police and Officials to the Chagos Islands to block humanitarian supplies of fresh water and mosquito nets being supplied to Chagos Islanders under the ruse that they aren’t approved by him Kier Starmer
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/11/chagos-supply-mission-thwarted-border-officials/
The UK now under investigation by the UN, Prime Minister is committing a “crime against humanity” Although the snake oil salesmen some call Lawyers in ‘our’ legal profession will squirm a way out and turn it around. UK Law has made itself a laughing stock riddled with the worst of the worst, doing anything but upholding Laws & above all ‘Justice’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/04/11/un-investigates-starmer-chagos-deal-human-rights-violation/
The man this UK Parliament calls their Leader as such our PM lives in a Walter Mitty bubble, he sees himself, he sees his ego, he has even prescribed himself to be a global statesman. He is an embarrassment to all of us, an insult to all world leaders, but to the UK Parliament those sitting there ‘owning’ his output, defending him they have devalued themselves, Parliament and Democracy.
April 12, 2026
I too am delighted for the Chagossians, Britain and the US as Labour’s plan was the most absurd proposal I think I have ever heard of.
Just on the subject of colonialism, I hope the brainwashed left will distinguish between the constructiveness and kindness of British colonialism relative to the brutality of other contemporaneous European powers. I think our relationship with the Chagossians is living proof of that.
I hope they will also see Britain does not owe a penny in ‘reparations’. Near its peak, the British taxpayer had a GBP 403bn capital investment in the Empire (in modern equivalence). Indeed Britain’s efforts delivered GBP trillions more in private capital investment which transformed most of the these countries from uncultivated lands to industrialised, cutting-edge economies.
We also spent a fortune on military protection for 25% of the world’s population with both army and navy stationed in each country and on the seas too, to intercept any aggressor.
I hope when the blinkered left factors all this into their assessment about the British Empire they will see we do not owe a penny in reparations to anyone, in fact we are owed a rebate.
April 12, 2026
Thank you for bringing us up to date on this issue.
The Chagos result is good and shows that common sense and intelligence can prevail.
Unfortunately in order to get to this point there are some worrying issues which pose a number of questions.
How can the current Prime Minister get things so wrong [yet again];Isn’t he a solicitor and ex public prosecutor who held the most senior legal position in the UK;
How was it that our own Advocates got it so wrong that they thought we were compelled by International law to give away UK owned territory.
Surely they knew there was an overriding UK/US treaty in existence.Who were these lawyers and how much did they get paid for this advice?Are they still employed?
It seems that the instruction given to the UK lawyers was to ensure the conclusions they reached were to give away the Chagos Islands rather than find a way not to.
How is it that a group of people can take this matter to Court at their own expense and win when the Government’s own lawyers who are paid vast amounts of money, couldn’t do it.
How much parliamentary time has been wasted and lost in debating an issue which was never in doubt because of an existing UK/US Treaty?
May I ask you that a public enquiry or Parliamentary select committee is set up to investigate the appalling government failures this highlights.
April 12, 2026
Don’t forget that early on advisers(?) to Trump got him to support UK giving Chagos away.
He probably thought them to be a bit of sand dredged up like the Chinese do all over the place.
Somebody showed him an atlas and the site of their important base…..oops get on the phone to that Starmer fellow.
April 12, 2026
In light of the Red Arrest warrant from Interpol for Tulip Siddiq – when will the Home Secretary arrange for her extradition to Bangladesh – in accordance with International Law??
April 12, 2026
Sir Two Tier Kier only likes “international law” only when he thinks it suits him!
April 12, 2026
In to-days Media
“Chancellor Rachel Reeves has issued a new warning to “British families and businesses,” saying the Iran War will come at a cost to people in the UK.”
A beg to differ. There is not one thing that the Iran situation should be causing a problem for the UK. All the UK’s woes stem from an inept Parliament parallelised seemingly by their own personal egos and whims. The UK Parliament is there to appoint and manage a leader, to hold the chosen Cabinet to account. Parliament ‘owns’ the refusal to budget, the refusal to keep us safe & secure, the output of government – no one else. World situations come and go, that’s just the way it is.
The electorate pay and lend their MP power to act on their behalf in all situations. If there is a problem or a situation that Parliament through its held to account Government creates that then flows back to the electorate to pay it is solely by the choice of the MPs in Parliament. Today the majority in Parliament own and support the actions of their excitative whether that is Iran, no money, or Chagos they all own the outcome. The electorate is powerless. It would change if Parliament sort validation, a mandate, had an election but they by their choice don’t like answering to their electorate.
As for to-days and tomorrows situations Parliament ‘Own’ them, there is no ‘bogeyman’ out to get them other than personal incompetence
April 12, 2026
The Iranians are being the stupid ones now in refusing a deal over nuclear (armaments)
They’ve demonstrated well they can defend themselves well with conventional weapons.
Rather, they should be offering to give up their claims to nuclear (armaments) in exchange for trade deals / economic benefits to help their economy (and if they don’t, the USA and West are just going to be on their backs).
April 12, 2026
@Ed M – so true. Their wisdom(callus stupidity) the only reason that peace has been blocked.
April 12, 2026
It’s such a shame. The Iranians would come out as winners. So would Trump. And so would the Israelis. And the world economy. And … (What’s wrong with us human beings …?!)
April 12, 2026
Delighted with this outcome, yet another clumsy policy misjudgment by our hapless Prime Minister.
April 12, 2026
Also pleased we are keeping the Chagos Islands, but cautious that Starmer will still try to find a way to give then away in the next three years. I don’t think it was dodgy legal advice. I think it was the disgraceful and deliberate action of a PM who hates the UK, its proud history and its people. A patriotic PM would have said NO right at the beginning. But this Government will do anything it can to damage the UK, its industrial base and its people.
No serious PM would tolerate Ed Miliband and the nonsense of Net Zero. In view of the world situation, we need a Government that prioritises being self-sufficient in energy, food production as close to 100% as we can get and puts defence spending first, however painful that might be.
April 12, 2026
Off topic, Lord Redwood, can you explain why Petrol with 5% palm oil is dearer than petrol with 10% palm oil?
With current pump prices, are we being ripped off?
Reply The government is ripping us off with tax at 55% of the price and VAT coining it in as oil price rises.
April 12, 2026
It is just one more example of the Starmer Gang’s hatred of Britain
April 12, 2026
I totally agre with Mr. Redmond.
April 12, 2026
“Sloppy legal advice coupled with a wish to punish the UK for imagined sins of colonialism led to the ridiculous idea of giving away the Chagos islands.”
Well, maybe, if we’re not seeing simply treachery.
When I see the PM’s current “mistakes”, u-turns, “sloppy understanding of the law”, policies and actions I am worried for the errors, poor decisions and, worse still, possibly politically motivated decisions he may have made when he was the Director of Public Prosecutions. As a result I do not believe lawyers who become the Director of Public Prosecutions should be allowed to become MPs and PMs or vice versa. This is because I dislike the idea of the position of Director of Public Prosecutions being used for political reasons and I thought the legislature and the judiciary were intended to be separate?
April 12, 2026
Congratulations to Hungary from one who remembers Budapest 1956 – from Ireland