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
650 MP’s wanting to sit on their hands, keep taking the money, keep fighting the country and its people while blaming other for their own incompetence.
Although as wee are reminded by the Great Global Statesman, that introduced two tier law and society there is a ‘Plan’. I don’t think anyone would or could be as incompetent as this UK Parliament, so the conclusion is that destruction is the ‘Plan’ and its working
April 16, 2026
No system will sever work unless there are quality candidates.
Put up the candidates you wish to represent you and bypass the party machines.
It’s do or die now.
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
“His inconsistency will be the end of him”
I certainly hope so!
April 16, 2026
He is very consistent. Never correct, never honest, never capable, never loyal, never just.
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!
April 16, 2026
Meanwhile, arrive in the UK illegally in a dinghy and you will be provided with food, shelter, medical are and benefits. Mad!
April 16, 2026
Why? Because the Chagossian bridgehead and Donald Trump have probably scuppered the Foreign Office/Two-Tier treacherous plans to hand the islands to Mauritius (and embolden China).
It has nothing whatsoever to do with International Law; they would have known that the ICJ’s ruling did not apply to disagreements between Commonwealth countries. Of course, Mauritius could leave the Commonwealth and then pursue its claim, but that was not the desired outcome.
In my opinion it has everything to do with the FO trying to maintain the UK’s position in the world as they see it, balancing “our interests” (or hedging our bets if you prefer) between the USA, EU and China.
The Government can’t attack Trump, so they are taking out their fury on the Chagossians. It’s the classic reaction of bullies …. and pure spite.
April 16, 2026
I agree with everyone here about Chagos. But 99% of population don’t care now. They are too distracted by Trump. What’s more the Trump Show is taking the spotlight off how rubbish Labour are. Which means Labour could sneak back into power again including as Reform and Conservatives have been relatively closely connected with Trump. Trump is terrible PR for right-wing politics here in UK.
April 16, 2026
Have you looked at the Polls? I’m speaking of the U.K. polls, not the US polls.
April 17, 2026
Hi Lynn,
I don’t want to take any risks in Labour sneaking back into power.
Starmer and Reeves were on the block for some time but Trump has now taken the limelight off them. Giving them breathing space.
If we look at Mark Carney’s win in Canada and Anthony Albanese’s win in Australia then these might also be signs that Trump is harming the right vote.
I might be wrong. But I don’t want to take any chances!
x
April 16, 2026
Presumably though there was originally an agreement with the US that the islands had to be kept entirely free of any occupation in order to safeguard the security of Diego Garcia?
April 16, 2026
@MPC – that agreement is still in place as ‘International Law’
April 16, 2026
I’m sure that was the thinking back in 1966 when Labour simply kicked these people out of their homes.
But the reality is that many key US bases are surrounded by civilian populations and it seems to be managed.
For instance, RAF Lakenheath has Midenhall, Thetford and Bury St Edmunds around it – all a great deal nearer than the Chagossians on Île du Coin – about 310 miles from the US base. Ample room for a security zone.
April 16, 2026
The mistake the Chargossians made was accepting British citizenship.
The British Government, like the Irish government, treats its own citizens with hostility even when they have been brutally attacked.
See Southport where the PM committed a crime by accusing people who were telling the truth of lying and pressuring the Court System to punish them in unusual ways, one man died.
In Epsom where dozens of riot police in full gear lined up to challenge distraught citizens after 4 ‘unidentified’ men gang raped a local girl, but the police are unwilling to confront black gangs terrorising Clapham down the road.
In Ireland one of the peaceful protesting farmers who had his tractor impounded has committed suicide.
April 16, 2026
The Establishment is terrified of an event such as this triggering the “civil war” which Prof Betz has been warning about/predicting.
April 16, 2026
@Lynn Atkinson – welcome to the world of a two tier Parliament holding a two tier Government & PM to account.
From the outside looking in it looks like 650 traitors preening themselves, and the only fight they will pick is with the Country and its People
April 16, 2026
Indeed the pictures in Epsom of very many police in full riot gear confronting peaceful legitimate protestors and the refusal to release any real information about the suspects seem to be designed to cause further anger and outrage among local residents.
Should it be a requirement for all seeking asylum to give DNA samples etc.?
This government and much of the police force are surely becoming the very clear enemy of the law abiding population this will not end well. At least they have not said they were all Welsh Choirboys I suppose.
April 16, 2026
But Surrey Police have claimed it does not have “enough” information to release descriptions of the suspects.
Fine release whatever information you do have then which must surely be quite considerable. No doing so makes matter worse – surely even the senior police offices can grasp this?
Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander was left stranded after her car was wrecked by what she described as a “moon crater” pothole in Oxfordshire. Well at least she was not on a bike it might have killed her.
In the UK, over 250 cyclists were killed or seriously injured due to road defects like potholes over a recent five-year period, with one rider a week suffering severe injuries. Specific data indicates 10 fatalities and 262 serious injuries in that timeframe, with an upward trend in incidents.
Not fixing potholes quickly is a huge false economy Heidi, they just get ever larger, kill people damage vehicles, cause serious crashes.
April 16, 2026
There is a CCTV camera within yards of the attack scene.
April 16, 2026
Epsom and Ewell are ‘sanctuary boroughs’.
The ‘nice’ people’ of the south knew that if you are nice to murders and rapists, they are nice to you.
They now find that Epsom and Rotherham are in the same basket and they are genuinely terrified.
They need to be.
April 16, 2026
I believe Northern Ireland will join the South if they get control of their Government and leave the EU (which they want to do). Punishment for the U.K. for failing NI.
April 16, 2026
Then there’s the Windrush generation. Been in this country legitimately so long the Home Office thought it was about time to make their lives a misery, just like any other British person.
April 16, 2026
Now it emerges that Starmer also lied when he said Mandelson was cleared by security services.
We cannot have the powerful class get away with lying.
This must be punished!
He must be indicted.
We need to see JUSTICE
Reply We need to see the government’s account of the Mandelson vetting
April 16, 2026
Would you have asserted that the security clearance had been given if you had not seen it? This was a very controversial appointment. This is a ‘lawyer’ who asserts he obeys all laws and rules.
He has lied too often, he can’t blame subordinates.
He’s the PM, unbelievably.
April 17, 2026
Correct. He misled Parliament on a number of occasions.
If he will not resign, the Speaker must censure him in the House and utterly humiliate him.
April 17, 2026
We must sack the Labour Party, every last one of them because they could make him resign, and don’t.
April 16, 2026
Odd isn’t it, Starmer the renowned human rights lawyer. Cares not a jot for the human rights of Chagossians. The Labour party which contains members constantly howling about Britains colonial past. Doesn’t seem to want to put right this particular colonial issue.
I hope the Chagos sell-out is now at an end, but suspect Starmer thinks differently. Of course if Labour get wiped out in the forthcoming local elections. It may well bring about the end of Starmer…..
April 16, 2026
Or for the human rights of those being murdered, stabbed, raped, threatened, robbed, shoplifted from by many of the illegal migrants he is endlessly accommodating at vast taxpayers expense.
But 31 months jail for a temporary minor trivial tweet in anger at the mass murder of so young girls dancing is not excessive the Judges say!
April 16, 2026
The end of Labour.
April 16, 2026
A Government in fear of its People, no a Parliament in fear of its people.
2 years of maliciously trashing the economy, it is not World events it is malicious intent coupled with inept political ideology.
This has lead to a UK Parliament fighting the nation and its people. 2 years done and as they don’t do democracy another 3 years to go. What will be left?
April 16, 2026
As was read elsewhere in recent days, Socialism is a decease for which there is no cure.
April 16, 2026
A truly evil disease too – one that most UK parties are infected with and have been in the UK for many years.
“Enemies of the people” Starmer has changed to “far right”. No one should vote Labour or Green on May 7th even more depressing is the list of likely replacements Rayner, Streeting, Miliband, Burnham, Mahmood (say one thing but do nothing)… Streeting is half sensible but would not be allowed to do anything sensible and will never win his seat at the next GE.
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People’s Republic of China (1949–present): The largest numbers are attributed to the Great Leap Forward (1959–1961), which caused a famine with estimated deaths between 15 and 55 million. Other estimates, including the Cultural Revolution and various campaigns, range from 40 to 76 million.
Soviet Union (1917–1991): Estimates range from 20 to over 60 million deaths, including the Red Terror, Holodomor famine, Great Purge, and the Gulag system.
Cambodia (1975–1979): The Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, is responsible for the Cambodian genocide, killing 1.2 to 2.8 million people, representing roughly 15-36% of the population.
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Methods of Death: Deaths occurred through political executions, massacres, famine, man-made hunger, deportations, and forced labor.
Academic Debate: The precise numbers are debated, with some, like in The Black Book of Communism, providing higher totals, while others, such as R.J. Rummel, argue for higher “democide” (murder by government) figures.
Nature of Victims: Those killed were often labeled as “enemies of the people,” including landlords, bourgeoisie, capitalists, and intellectuals, but frequently included the rural peasantry, as seen in the Soviet dekulakization and Chinese rural famines.
April 16, 2026
@Lifelogic – Nothing less than a full General Election should be the order of the day. This Parliament has no mandate for the track they are taking, they have sort no validation of their ‘Plan’ from any one. I would bet the majority don’t even know what their own ‘brains’ are telling them, just that the Leader the Politburo has dictated.
They all forget no one in the UK was asked to vote for this Government or its Leader, they were imposed on us by Parliament those we empower and pay to look after our safety & security and best interest
April 16, 2026
From the ‘Media’
“Farmers raise alarm over Labour’s plan to impose EU rules on Britain”
The ‘Plan’ to impose. That says it all. 3 more years of this and what would be left?
General Election now!
April 16, 2026
We have nobody for whom to vote.
April 16, 2026
It is beyond satire that a bunch of “human rights” lawyers are driving this issue. It must be driving them crazy at night wrestling with the conflict of hating our colonial past whilst being busy during the day of recreating shades of the former empire they so detest. If this programming conflict continues robotic Starmer may blow a sub-routine!
April 16, 2026
@IanT, its called money, always follow the money. There is not one ounce of ‘altruism’ deployed, just money for ‘snake-oil’ salesmen
April 16, 2026
Starmer has been reported to the UN for ‘Human rights abuses’.
The transport Sec had to be rescued by the AA after driving into a ‘pot hole’.
On and on.
Yet they learn nothing.
It’s like a French Farce.
April 16, 2026
Just so long as the lawyers can ponce around in court, dress up flamboyantly and address each other as “learned gentleman”, whilst drawing their ample fees, they don’t really care too much about anything else.
April 16, 2026
This whole thing is so irrational, even in legal terms,that I am sure something will emerge to explain the motives of those involved.
April 16, 2026
Chagos diversion along with many other deliberate diversions such as Trans, Boats and foreign travel extravaganza s have I believe allowed the incompetents to pursue their hidden agenda of surrendering to “The Project” laying the foundations for future austerity and poverty that guaranteed how Labour would always be relevant as in the past.
April 16, 2026
The PM main policy is to accept unlimited numbers of migrants into our country to keep the EU happy
He will be punished in May
April 16, 2026
Once a Trotskyite, always a Trotskyite. Starmer speaks like a Dalek because he really has no more humanity than a Dalek. Hard left socialists like those of Starmer’s Gang regard the populous as meat units, servants of the party, whose only function is to serve the party’s state and to breed, and when they cease to breed sufficently the Gang happily imports people of ( other ed)cultures, to make up the numbers. Integration is not required because in this regime there is no culture of importance. So long as they breed they’re welcome. it would be better if they worked and contributed but while there is still plenty of capital left in the hands of the bourgeoisie that can be stolen to make up the deficit they do not need to work. On the contrary, they can be molly coddled.
There has never been such a hateful, mean hearted, inhuman government as Starmer’s Gang. Just as communist Eastern Germany called itself the Democratic Republic, so these gangsters call themselves human rights lawyers.
April 16, 2026
This country is currently drowned in Human Rights Lawyers. Why don’t just a few of them claim Legal Aid for the Chagossians and pursue their case in OUR own courts?
The International Court MUST be ignored – it has no executive clout and is ignored by the big boys of the world today!.
Besides, some of its members are old friends of PM, Starmer, and he appears to always be ( taking advice from them ed)
April 16, 2026
The way Chagos was heading it was prone to be renamed: Charges.
Labour’s idiocy, waste and anti-British intent needs rooting out of office.
Only then the UK can behave like a normal country, doing what is best for its own citizens instead of behaving like an enemy aganst its own people.
April 16, 2026
HMRC figures out today show UK goods exports fell 21.6% year-on-year in February, dragging the trade deficit to £31 billion. More than double the £14.2 billion recorded a year earlier…
Reply3 months to February saw growth in goods and services exports and a reduced balance of trade deficit to just £2.8 bn. UK exports much bigger in services. Importing too much fossil fuel and chemicals as we close our own production down.
April 16, 2026
Trump is also great PR too for the EU. He’s helping drive the UK back into the EU. Unintended consequences of course. Mayor Khan of London is also riding on a wave of great PR which Trump is unintentionally giving him. Trump has given unintended breathing space to socialism and WOKE in our great country.
April 16, 2026
Oh take responsibility! The President of the US does not run the U.K.
April 17, 2026
Hi Lynn, we have to take responsibility by not giving him oxygen! Don’t support him. If you do, you’re helping Labour sneak back into power x
(And buy British goods and services over American – not forgetting he slapped us with tarrifs and insulted our military).
April 16, 2026
“They seemed unaware that the ICJ could not make a binding judgement…”
The ICJ ‘ruling’ was just a public pretext to conceal all the ‘earning’ and ‘sharing’ of legal fees that was the real aim.
April 16, 2026
China wants to use the Chagos Islands for its military, Mauritius and the EU want the fish in its waters and our PM delights in the idea that the UK will pay Mauritius vast sums of money to take the Chagos Islands off our hands whilst at the same time weaken our own national security and that of the US. What’s not to like? And don’t forget that Socialism depends upon making and keeping people poor.
April 16, 2026
There should be a no stone unturned enquiry about this. Too many allegations of dodgy backroom deals etc.
It was obvious early on something did not add up, especially given the facts you stated about ICJ exemptions and the US Treaty on Degio Garcia being widely known. Surely Keith must have been aware of this when he signed the treaty
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I’m not holding my breath though.
April 16, 2026
Get ready for another TwoTierKier excuse supported by an out of control Parliament
‘The Guardian reports that UK Security Vetting services actually denied Peter Mandelson clearance for Developed Vetting after the usual process. That decision was overruled.’
https://order-order.com/2026/04/16/mandelson-failed-security-vetting-starmers-excuse-for-appointment-explodes/
There is the Westminster bubble fighting the Nation and its People, then there is those they handed the keys to power