Mauritius demands more money for Chagos Islands | Sources say Sir Keir Starmer under pressure to hand over additional funds on top of reported £9bn already agreed

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1. End the deal. We’re literally paying for them to take our land away from us.

2. Ehhh no. Actually we’ll just keep it…and the 9bn. Thanks. ☺️

3. Well why not . He keeps agreeing with all their demands, even though they have no actual negotiation power, so makes sense to ask for more.

4. Listen- if you can’t all play nicely and share then I’ll it away and none of you can have it.

5. Why are we even entertaining this anymore, no deal we keep the whole island !

6. Britain showing its hole to the world and asking to be pumped as always.

7. This looks really stupid and I say this as someone who was mostly neutral on the deal before this.

   Abandon the deal and negotiate with the Chagos islanders directly.

8. We are negotiating with doctor evil and we have a wet paper towel to do the talking.

9. Literally paying another country to take territory off of us because of Empire guilt, just like how Germany excuses the Israeli government’s every action because of Holocaust guilt.

10. Honestly if starmer backs out now he’ll probably get incredible poll ratings.

    Im rsther confused about the deal in the first place on why exactly we give it back.

    The other issue is that the tories negotiated this disaster but it’s now starmers baby to deliver which cant help matters.

    If Mauritius however refuses to honour whatever has been put in place i do think it will help out standing to tell them to do one if they don’t accept what we’ve already offered.

11. At this point I kind of respect Mauritius. Commitment to the bit.

12. Imagine their luck to have someone offering an island that’s 3000 miles.away with absolutely no ties to it for billions..they probably think the pm is insane and are pushing their luck for more

13. Fair play to Mauritius. Starmer is a spineless bitch and they know it.

    I would do the same thing, keep pushing so you can get as much as possible.

14. I’m not aware of enough to comment in an informed manner, but it’s easy to see why people are querying this deal. It doesn’t seem sensible from my limited knowledge.

15. They obviously clocked that 2TK will give them anything they want, so the demands will continue to increase. Can’t blame them. But 2TK and his leadership team are a disgrace.

16. The UN does not stipulate having to pay for it. Give it back and walk away. Let them negotiate with Trump for the base. They might get a tarrif break.

    Paying 80m a year for a base that is someone else’s is daftness. Especially given the current stance of the talking wotsit.

    According to forcesnews

    > a small UK detachment, reportedly around 40 personnel, provides police and customs services on the island.

    Talking the piss. 8bn to have 40 people there. Does the 8bn come out of the military budget?

17. To be honest Mauritius have given Starmer an easy out of this horrendous deal, they are asking for more money and so he should just say look we are going to walk away from this because we don’t believe Mauritius are acting in good faith and we have reconsidered the global geopolitical situation and we would rather keep this territory to ourselves

    If Labour agree to frontload several billion pounds in payment to Mauritius (to, errr, take our own territory away from us), this could genuinely affect their chances at the next GE. It will haunt them for years because every single time they will claim they have no money for whatever is being requested, People will just bring up this deal and say well look you managed to find the money to pay as reparations alongside giving away the Chagos Islands.

18. If the courts say we can’t have it just leave the thing. If the yanks want their base there, let them figure it out. There you go, gov.uk, saved you £9bn.

19. Might be cheaper to give them no money and keep it.

20. This is the most insane deal ever. What are we doing here.. Starmer should’ve killed this deal on day one. It’s so insulting to see this while Reeves is squeezing the public for more money. I’m surprised we haven’t seen any protests or even parliamentary petitions.. everyone should be complaining to their MP about this.

21. Just tell them to get fucked and we’re keeping the islands.

    It never made any sense to give them away in the first place, especially not to Mauritius (if anyone has a genuine connection apart from us it’s the Seychelles).

    But to be extorted ever more money for something that’s already ours? Nah, fuck off.

22. Imagine if the UK managed to elect a competent government.

23. Such a poor deal. No other country would self-harm like the UK.

24. This is taking the piss now. They’re not negotiating in good faith, just walk away.

25. fuck em, keep the land and the cash. sadly starmer will fold like a lawnchair and we’ll be out even more though.

26. Surely something like this has to make even Keir Starmer second guess himself and think that they’re taking the piss.

27. What on earth is happening? We are under no obligation to give the islands up let alone to pay them. To cave to further demands is utterly mind boggling which must mean Starmer and his incompetents will agree 🤦‍♂️

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