🇬🇧 Ex-RN-MEM/MEA⚓,Supr.Engr⚡🔧SE Asia. Helping@hcvi 🏥⚕ My thoughts such as they are on anything, with a empathetic ear. To unpathed waters,undreamed shores🌴
Good news this morning. We have had the first reading of a new private member’s bill in Parliament to protect the Chagossians.
The Chagossians MUST have a meaningful say in their future and they overwhelmingly want to remain British. 🇬🇧🇮🇴
Fantastic! Thank you Lord Weir. “The contents have it.” 🇮🇴
The Chagossians MUST have a meaningful say in their future. It’s 2026 not 1826. The era when governments could decide the fate of peoples and territories over their heads should be long behind us. Let’s go! #SaveChagos
Good news. My patriotic friend @LordWeirDUP won the Private Members’ Bill ballot, and has just introduced a Bill to prohibit any change in the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands without the consent of both Parliament and the Chagossian people.
We are going to win this thing.
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A new milestone for the Chagos Islands
Lord Weir's Bill securing the islands passes its First Reading:
• Protects British sovereignty
• Introduces a referendum protection for Chagossians
• Enables resettlement to the outer islands
Once again, the Chagossians are betrayed and their voices ignored. And seriously, whoever thought it was a good idea to hand these islands to an ally of China at this moment in history?
BIOTC British Chagossians: Today we protested Withers LLP representing Bancoult CRG in attempts to transfer the Chagos to Mauritius. Mauritius has lied about resettlement. We call on the UK to accept responsibility and resettle Chagossians as British Overseas Territory🇮🇴🇬🇧
Analysis by Robert Midgley:
The Mandelson files suggest officials feared public scrutiny of Chagos deal but equally striking is what's missing....
https://t.co/a12hjqUzQB
What the Mandelson files reveal about Chagos Islands:
• Officials knew about Chinese interests in outer islands
• Officials wanted to rush the deal over fear of public and media scrutiny
• Mauritius was to keep the outer islands empty - betraying Chagossians (again)
V interesting on Chagos
In May last year Mandelson clearly felt he had made progress persuading DC on Chagos giveaway as he wrote to Starmer on the matter and nudged DS private office
So Mandelson was a key ally of Powell in the attempted giveaway of our territory
Treacherous
Mandelson: "I am getting very worried about Chagos."
Then the messages are redacted. Of course they are.
Starmer's shady #Chagos surrender raises more questions every day.
Why can't the Chagossians have self-determination? It's 2026, for goodness' sake.
Get a grip, Labour.
here Powell is pushing hard for the Chagos giveaway to be completed the day before Starmer's Feb 2025 Oval Office meet with President Trump
Binning off British sovereign territory is all this guy cares about - and he's in charge of nat sec!
Fortunately that was stopped!
Great to see the UKOTA in Parliament. Small correction, the permanent population of the Chagos Islands includes the base and 6 native Chagosians on Ile du Coin 🇩🇬🇩🇬