The government proved to be so bad at international law when it came to the Chagos give away. They seemed unaware that the ICJ could not make a binding judgement to make us give the islands to Mauritius given the Treaty limitations we imposed on their power when we joined. They seemed unaware of the binding Treaty with the US to set up the joint Diego Garcia base which prevents us from giving the islands away.
Worse still, they got into a complete pickle over human rights and colonial matters. Normally keen to hound the UK for past alleged misdemeanours as a colonial power, they have ridden roughshod over the rights of the people who were living in our colony of the British Indian Ocean Territory before a Labour government in 1966 forced them out. They treated them badly then, had to grant UK citizenship to many and now are treating them atrociously despite their UK citizenship.
6 Chagossians decided they wanted to go back to live in the islands they were forced out of. Choosing one many miles away from the sensitive base at Diego Garcia, they have been told to leave by an angry and aggressive UK government. The government lost a court case over the issue of whether they could return to their homelands but still harries them and the people and boats that wish to keep them supplied whilst they establish new homes.
A government which is unable or unwilling to interdict any illegal migrant boat or shadow fleet tanker in UK home waters has boarded a small supply boat seeking to help the Chagossians, and has sought to prevent them receiving some of the supplies they need for their settlement. Why are they so hostile and so unhelpful? Why do they not accept the judgement that people thrown out of their homeland by a colonial power have rights to resettle when the islands apart from the military base are empty and have been allowed to return to nature? Why are they blocking the delivery of a fast small boat to them so the people there could get to medical facilities in a hurry if needed? The NHS pays big bills to provide boats for our small home islands where people might need to be rushed to a hospital. The government has a duty of care towards the Chagossians which it is not fulfilling.
April 16, 2026
Put quite simply, as it has been demonstrated every single day since the electoral sysem we have in this country somehow allowed them into government, the current bunch of clueless and spineless incompetents supposedly in charge of running the country do not believe in duty of care. In fact, they don’t even understand what it means.
April 16, 2026
Good morning.
No. They thought that they could get away with it by making false claims believing that they would go uncontested.
In short. They gambled and lost.
Fun fact, or maybe not – Because the government of Mauritius believed that the deals was as good as done, budget and borrowed billions in expectation of monies coming from the UK Government. Consequently they are in a bit of a pickle financially.
So it is not just the UK economy Labour has messed up 🙂
April 16, 2026
They do like to punish us, and the Chagossians. Anyone who disapproves of government policies or the actions of the bureaucratic state. This is not the form of government most people want.
April 16, 2026
AGREED.
HMG should be forced to explain itself, especially for it’s vile treatment of a people already wronged to the point of abuse.
The soundbites we get from Starmer are pitiful excuses for reasoning. His own logic has failed him, showing him up as a supporter of Human rights only when it follows the thought patterns of an international lawyer with inbuilt degrees of justice – His inconsistency will be the end of him.
April 16, 2026
Good Morning,
So what is their motivation? Why waste so much government time and money on a trivial issue, in the sense of risk to UK security from foreign courts? Follow the money!