I think the world’s middle powers should answer Carney’s call for a new world order of middle powers. We don’t have to fight for the scraps the super powers toss in the dirt for us. We have our own powers, dignity, 1.5 billion pop market isn’t something to sneer at,
What does that have to do with the article?
This is good for Britain.
I never thought handing them over to Mauritius was the right thing. Using them as a naval base is also messed up but that wasn’t going anywhere.
So I see this a positive thing, but the optics for Starmer couldn’t be worse. It makes him look like Trumps lapdog.
The Chagos deal was going to be Starmer’s favour to Trump. The UK was going to pay to keep using it, just to host the US base there. It was essentially another conservative mess for Labour to clean up, and another example of Trump having a strop about something that he had previously been in favour of. I say go ahead and pull it: this is the perfect opportunity to have another bill and keep the US out of this one.
I have a suspicion trump hates this entirely because it was planned by biden originally.
He being mad about free land makes even less sense than he usually does.
Weren’t all the former Chagos inhabitants against this?
Yep indeed! And the least he could’ve done was tell them it wasn’t going ahead, instead of letting them stress about it for about a year or two.
Everyday he lowers my opinion of him.
Which at this point is something of a miracle.
Who?
Yes.
