UK forced to shelve legislation to return Chagos Islands to Mauritius

The rational argument was that if the islands fall under some kind of UN sanction (would not necessarily be veto-able, could be general assembly not security council); it would make the military base untenable as all the essential contractors (maintenance, supply, logistics etc) would not be able to work there. The base is what is important and is the priority, not theoretical sovereignty; the proposed leasing idea would have solved this potential issue. That's the argument, I believe. I don't necessarily agree with it, but it's not just random, and was proposed and work on it began *before* Kier Starmer's government

They started the deal because the US wanted them to

Because if the international courts (who ruled against UK ownership) and the UK disagree on who has sovereignty then China and others can interfere around the shores, and it sets a precedent for China’s other island disputes that they can just squat on other peoples land. Hence why the US and UK wanted to align with international law, and then sign agreements that gave them exclusive access. It’s not even that the legalisation is dead, it’s just that the goverment is on holiday now.

Giving. Mauritians never lived on this island and their claim is pure garbage. Based off of the old colonial admin being run from Mauritias but a stacked non binding court ruled in their favour. So rather than tell them to f*** off our government not only offered Mauritias the islands they also planned to pay them as well. This deal has been nothing but poison for Starmers government but he went through with it due to US pressure though now that Donny and Kier have had a falling out that "moral" duty Starmer whined about while failing to force this deal through has suddenly vanished.

Just like "returning" Hong Kong to China. The UK has a tendency of returning things to someone who hasn't owned it before.

Did Americans test their nukes in Marshall Islands because of the Chinese too!.. Nope. These type of abuse of power to evict the native populations is/was routine for sake of your own supremacy doctrine. US overthrew the government of Hawaii too to annex it and run sugar planation there.. This is your own country's ugly history.. Franco-Anglo-Saxon supremacy doctrine is behind all of it.

Flip flop steamer strikes again

What are you talking about, the whole point of this deal was to stop the Chinese. They much prefer the UK keeping the island and going against the courts because it means they can do the same with their own island expansion.

The Tories yes but Starmer went full bore trying to make it happen for some stupid reason. He failed to get this deal past the House of Lords and Trump started f****** about which just made Starmer look even more incompetent, it's only now that Donny has really shit the bed in Iran that Starmer is finally backing down.

except rather us interests instead

You clearly know nothing about this issue.

Posted an inflammatory comment and then deleted your profile an hour later. OK.

America that bombed Iran during negotiations and kidnapped a leader of a country whilst negotiating then you have the blocking of supplies going into Cuba. And you wonder why British people act more enlightened in comparison to Americans.

You want to explain how giving land to a people who never owned or lived upon it based off of where a old office was located isn't colonialism? Do keep in mind Mauritias doesn't want the Chagosians to return to the islands either.