A spokesperson from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said: “Our primary concern at this point is to ensure the safe departure of a group of individuals from an island that is not fit for human habitation, and on which any health emergencies or extreme weather could pose a serious threat to life.”
What annoys is that they think we out here are stupid enough to believe such tosh.
What’s this ?
Something happening at Grytviken again ?
This may be merely a dress rehearsal for when the UK gets that way.
You think it hasn’t already?
I’m sure there are London social housing areas that are more ‘not fit for human habitation’ than anywhere on the Chagos islands.
It’s interesting to see the distinctions being made. The Climate Doom Goblin sailing to Palestine to relieve the fictional genocidal famine according to the propaganda issued by terrorists and advertised by their enthusiastic supporters, the BBC, is a mission of mercy, but Farage going to the deadly Chagos Islands, betrayed by that traitor Starmer is a cheap publicity stunt…
Julia got there first. 🙂
A guardian headline
Nigel Farage accused of ‘Maga stunts’ for saying he was denied access to Chagos Islands
Another guardian headline.
Gaza aid flotilla: Israel intercepts vessels but one ship reported to have got through blockade – as it happened
The more I read about the Chagos islands the more ridiculous the deal we did over them. This is quite a feat as giving away the islands and leasing them back for an eye watering amount is already an unfathomable act of stupidity.
I had thought Mauritius must have some claim to the islands. It transpires that we got Mauritius and the Chagos islands from France after the Napoleonic war and the Chagos’s were uninhabited prior to France claiming them. We (the British) chose to manage the islands as a dependency of Mauritius and when we gave Mauritius its independence we did not include the Chagos islands, or any other British territories for that matter. They were only lumped together with Mauritius due to the way we managed them, so Mauritius hold no sensible claim over them. Yet we did that deal.
The more I read about the Chagos islands the more ridiculous the deal we did over them. This is quite a feat as giving away the islands and leasing them back for an eye watering amount is already an unfathomable act of stupidity.
Indeed. We cannot even accuse Starmer and Hermer of selling us out because we’re actually proposing to pay Mauritius, not be paid, to be …. well, what? It’s not selling out, if you’re not being paid. So what is it?
Or will they be getting backhanders from Sands with Chinese money laundered through the government of Mauritius? In that case I suppose it could be called a sell out.
From what I’ve read Sands and/or Hermer have already trousered £8million for their ‘fees’ in advising Mauritius.
That won’t be nearly enough for them. They couldn’t afford to cut Starmer in on the deal at that low price.
Wrong. It’s worse. They just don’t give a shit one way or the other because they think we’re irrelevant.
The “it’s for your own good” argument.
When you click on the link you get a lying frog not a lying toad.
“..an island that is not fit for human habitation, and on which any health emergencies or extreme weather could pose a serious threat to life.”
Funny that. Just what I was thinking when I drove onto the boat at Dover.
Ah, so they’ll stop people travelling illegally to an island because it’s dangerous to do so?
So when do they apply that logic to crossing the Channel in an inflatable?