Keir Starmer blasted as Mauritius ‘demands £800m per year’ for Chagos Islands

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1. Maybe….just keep the islands for free then instead??

2. At this point, it’d be a better look for the UK if our diplomats just gave them the finger and walked away from the whole thing. I suspect the incoming US government would appreciate that move!

   Stick your colonial guilt where the sun doesn’t shine.

3. Any time I see a headline with “blasted” or “slammed”
   I ignore it.

4. Blasted you say?

5. Read the article. Conservatives are complaining that starmer DOESNT want to pay 800m a year.

6. Remember everyone. This is in The Express. It probably pays to do a bit of research first before letting the emotional reactions kick in. Don’t feed the monster! 

7. We just need to rip up any deal.

   It’s an highly unpopular move.

   Keep them

8. White guilt costs money.. who knew

9. Then the UK needs to fuck the island off

10. Tell them to fuck off, keep the base there anyway, what they going to do about it?

    Better yet, alter the deal of giving them the islands to make the land the base is on British if they want to push their luck so much.

11. If Labour agree to this or to anything they are hammering the nails in their own coffin. Reform are only gaining momentum and this is more fuel.

12. Well then, congratulations on the Chagos Islands for becoming the worlds newest independent country.

    Good luck.

13. Everyone should keep in mind this is in the Express – a paper well known for rage bait articles.

    Let’s see how this pans out when the adults start discussing any requests or agreements.

14. Blasted by whom?

    The right wing media who are screamingly desperate for anything to attack starmer over.

    If it shows tomorrow I’m sure that’ll be his fault too.

    They wanted more money when the tories negotiated the deal. This is fairly standard negotiating tactics.

15. What do the islanders want?

16. Only in Britain could the Labour Prime Minister be at fault for the unrealistic demands of a completely unrelated country.

17. We tried. They want to fuck around, come on down if you think you’re ‘ard enough

18. Yall really struggling after Brexit eh?

19. Yet another reminder that any agreement the Tories signed up to needs to be checked and re-evaluated where possible.

    Starmer should have put the agreement on review not blindly gone along with what those tory idiots had previously agreed.

20. Why would Keir starmer be ‘blasted’ for something someone else did?

21. Wow, the comments on this sub from people with fuck all knowledge.

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23. Give them nothing and vacate the place entirely.

24. Tell them to fuck off

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