Скачать или смотреть 2 MINS AGO! Keir Starmer FRUSTRAT£D After Mps ACCVSE Him As Chagos SURRENDER Four Times

Imagine trying to give away a strategic military base, trying to hand over billions of pounds of taxpayer money to a foreign government, trying to ignore the wishes of the people who actually live on the islands, and getting blocked. Not once, not twice, but four times in a single evening. That's what just happened to Keir Starmer in the House of Lords. The Chagos Islands deal, which Labour has been desperately trying to push through despite massive opposition, just suffered four separate defeats. Four. In one night. A cross-party coalition of Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, and crossbenchers basically told Starmer and his government to sit down and think about what they've done. And the issues they're raising aren't minor procedural quibbles, they're fundamental questions about democracy, transparency, and whether Britain should be handing over strategic territory while lying about how much it costs. Welcome back to UK Political Insight where we cover the government defeats that restore your faith in parliamentary democracy. Let's break down this absolute humiliation for Keir Starmer and why the Chagos surrender just got a whole lot more complicated.

So first, let's establish what the Chagos Islands deal actually is because if you haven't been following this saga, it sounds too bizarre to be real. The Chagos Islands are a remote archipelago in the Indian Ocean. They're currently British territory. The most important island is Diego Garcia, which hosts a joint UK-US military base that's absolutely crucial for Western defense and intelligence operations in the region. It's one of the most strategically important military installations in the world. And the Labour government, in their infinite wisdom, has decided to hand sovereignty over to Mauritius. Not give it independence, not maintain the status quo, but literally hand it over to another country. In exchange for what? Well, that's where it gets murky. Britain would lease Diego Garcia back for military use, and apparently we're paying Mauritius billions of pounds for the privilege of giving them our own territory and then renting it back from them. It's like selling your house, paying the new owner to let you live there, and calling it a brilliant negotiation.

The opposition to this deal has been fierce and it comes from multiple angles. First, there are the Chagossians themselves, the indigenous people of the islands. They were forcibly removed by Britain in the 1960s and 70s to make way for the military base, which was absolutely shameful and remains one of the darker chapters in recent British imperial history. The Chagossians have been fighting for decades for the right to return to their homeland. And you'd think that any deal about the future of these islands would involve consulting them, right? Wrong. The Labour government has negotiated this entire treaty with Mauritius without properly consulting the Chagossians. And here's the kicker, many Chagossians don't want to be ruled by Mauritius. They have major concerns about how they'd be treated, about their rights, about their future. But Labour doesn't care. They've decided the deal is happening and the Chagossians can like it or lump it.#Uk politics, #uk politique, #uk parliament, #uk news, #house of commons, #prime minister, #keir starmer, #Rachel reeves, #Nigel Farage, #labour Party, #reform, #conservative party, #kemi badenoch, #ed Miliband, #house Speaker, #MPQs, #sky news, #uk express