Starmer „zieht den Gesetzentwurf für die Chagos-Inseln zurück“ angesichts der Gegenreaktion der USA wegen des Abkommens

Pussy

The legislation is intended to provide a firm legal basis for the operation of the strategically important Diego Garcia Military Base, which has been used by UK and US forces since it was built on the islands in the 1970s. Ministers have claimed the deal is necessary because international court rulings in favour of Mauritian claims to sovereignty had threatened the future of the facility.

The proposed deal would lead Britain to give up the territory and lease back the base – a move the Conservatives have suggested would break a UK-US treaty signed in 1966, which enshrines the UK’s sovereignty over the archipelago, according to the *Telegraph*.

Starmer bends over for King Trump.

This is probably for the best since ceding the islands to Mauritius & paying them to take them when they’ve never owned the islands and when the Chagossians themselves oppose the transfer honestly makes no sense

Ideally we’d build a new town for the Chagossians to return with autonomy & let them determine their own future but this play is likely to maintain the base which was part of the Mauritius deal under the 130 year base lease part of the transfer anyway

Maybe towns could be built on some of the smaller islands like Egmont, Eagle or Danger Islands but they’re so small it might not be possible without at least some towns being built on Diego Garcia itself which ideally is what should be done with the Chagossians allowed to return

Correct me if I’m wrong, but the deal was to the advantage of the US in the first place. The UK was going to pay a lease for a military base so that ostensibly the US would have the ability to continue to use it as their base in the region.

The UK should give the island back, as ruled by the ICJ, but shouldn’t pay the lease. Let the USA pay the lease.

The USA actually want this deal to happen, but Trump threw his toys out the pram because nobody wanted to give him Greenland.

Perfect chance for Starmer to back out of what was a bad deal we were basically only doing as a favour to the Americans.

Or as most commentors here seem to be doing, you can just read the headline and conclude it’s just the UK caving to Trump, as critical thinking is completely fucking dead.

Starmer is a moron. First the Chinese embassy and then pushing to hand the Chagos Islands + £3.4bn to Mauritius, which is a Chinese ally.

Call it bending over for Trump or not, the deal was a bad idea from the start.

I don’t know the ins and outs of this deal, but from what I’ve read it’s the House of Lords that have basically scuppered it, after the Conservatives tabled a motion to force a delay in the passage of the bill.

The headline reads as if Starmer just chose to react to Trump’s commentary about it, and makes it look like more than a U-turn than it actually is.

No fan of Starmer, but if he’s got no practical chance of getting a bill through, then it’s not exactly his fault.