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
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.
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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
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
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
What happens to those who sought to damage our interests so maliciously?
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
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
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
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
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
Very Very pleased we are keeping The Chagos Islands and well said sir