Day of shame for naive Labour as it gives away strategically vital Chagos Islands and leaves taxpayers with endless bill
Date: 2024-10-21
Gift to our foes
WHAT a day of ignominy for the new ÂGovernment — not just giving away strategically vital British territory but handing taxpayers an endless bill for the privilege.
Labour will insist the airbase we and the Americans share on Diego Garcia in the Chagos Islands of the Indian Ocean is secure for a century under a lease they have signed.
The same class of gullible politicians and civil servants who trust everyone involved to honour this deal also believed China’s phoney assurances about Hong Kong in the ’90s[/caption]
How naive must they be?
Mauritius is an ally of China, a state hostile to the West. Beijing will be doubled-over laughing at us.
The same class of gullible politicians and civil servants who trust everyone involved to honour this deal also believed China’s phoney assurances about Hong Kong in the 1990s.
Look how they panned out.
It should mortify the Tories that they began the negotiating process on this two years ago.
He is right too to stare down Extinction Rebellion. They care nothing for livelihoods. They and Just Stop Oil are doomsday cults who romanticise pre-industrial squalor.
On balance we should invest in the possibilities of carbon capture which, as the PM describes opposite, would bury factories’ CO2 before it can be released.
It could prove crucial . . . if it works.
Life or death
An historic vote on assisted dying will take place in the Commons within months[/caption]
IT is right for MPs to reconsider the fraught issue of assisted dying — and have a free vote on it.