Tomorrow is the third reading of the bill to hand the British sovereign territory of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.
China has built a smart city right next door to Port Louis. Huawei safe city cameras are being installed all over the island and now China is negotiating a lease on Peros Banhos, the island close to Diego Garcia. Is Jonathan Powell selling us out to China?
What will the Americans say when they realise their military base is no longer secure?
The UK Government has revealed its legal basis for the Chagos Islands ‘deal’.
It rests on UNCLOS - yet the UK is exempt from its provisions on military activities under Article 298.
Cancel the deal.
Engage Chagossians.
Protect national security.
https://t.co/AfhxgBe5xp
Let’s remember that David Lammy, the appointed Deputy Prime Minister, once claimed that his mother raised him on Tax Credits.
When Tax Credits were introduced in 2003, David was 31-years-old.
We’re not being governed by our best and brightest.
@RupertLowe10 Hence the need for a strong @reformparty_uk government which you seem determined to prevent. Get behind Nigel Farage and help elect a government that shares most of your views and aspirations for this country. Divided, will merely ensure another Labour government. Country first..
Have I got this right? The government thinks 16- and 17-year-olds are too young access certain websites; but at the same time it thinks they are old enough to vote.
#OnlineSafetyAct
Starmer has declared that the UK will recognise Palestine as a state in September unless Israel makes peace with Hamas.
So if Hamas refuses to release the remaining hostages and continues to hold out against a ceasefire with Israel then the UK will ‘recognise’ Palestine.
But if it releases hostages and refuses a ceasefire the UK will not recognise Palestine.
I’m struggling to see what the incentive is for Hamas to do the right thing under the UK recognition plan.
Struggling even more to understand why anybody in the conflict will give a monkey’s what Starmer/UK thinks.
'Under the terms of the UK-US EPD, the UK has agreed to open its market to US agricultural goods, including a reciprocal tariff-free quota for 13,000 tonnes of beef and 1.4 billion litres of ethanol. The deal stipulated that agricultural goods would need to meet the importing country’s food standards.
But if the EU Reset goes ahead, UK imports would need to meet EU standards instead, shifting control of the trade agreement from Westminster to Brussels.'
Trump insiders warn Keir Starmer risks losing US trade deal over EU reset https://t.co/rOvv7cogYt
Why is the government pressing on with signing Uk up to EU food regulations and trade barriers? Don’t they understand this will limit our powers to do our own trade deals when we need those freedoms most? The EU has just shown how bad it is at doing trade deals.
@Suewilson91 I’m sorry that you don’t have freedom of movement in Spain, haven’t taken EU citizenship and that Spain appears to have left Schengen and Euro.! You seem to be living in parallel universe. Or perhaps you are an agent for the undemocratic and corrupt EU, which the UK wisely left..
I've heard it all now. A labour mp said that the new @reformparty_uk Warwickshire Council leader at 19, George Finch wasn't old enough to run the council, stating maturity. This from a party who said 16 year olds were mature enough to vote.
What a circus party Labour is. @Iromg
It is interesting to note that while Labour ministers were telling us the government couldn’t afford £1.5billion for pensioners’ winter fuel allowance it was telling a court behind closed doors that it was allocating £7billion to resettle Afghans.
Break NATO, and you break our shield. The US, UK, Canada, and Turkey deliver 90% of its strength. NATO already has the leadership, the language, and the systems to protect us. An EU Defence Union is a dangerous gamble. Don’t risk our safety. Defend NATO—our security depends on it
Every post today about the state of the UK that makes you angry.
Every govt policy that ruins us further.
Don’t make yourself ill.
Just pledge to vote Reform.
Elect Reform as the next govt and this all gets sorted.
OR…
Don’t, let Labour and the Tories continue on their path of our managed decline and make yourself ill ranting about it.
Stress is mostly a person’s inability to make a decision.
Mine was made last year. I joined Reform and will vote Reform at every opportunity.
So it turns out that the Channel Boats crisis has been deliberately engineered by Macron and the French Blob to discredit, sabotage and undermine Brexit in the interests of France and its EU ambitions.
Desperate Remainers have been willing French stooges.
50 immigrants sent back to France with 50 immigrants being allowed in, appears in my Maths to result in no change in the numbers coming here. Starmer is a complete and utter plonker.