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There are some things a nation simply doesn’t do if it wishes to remain a serious power, it does not abandon its own people, it does not auction off its territories like unwanted timeshares, and it does not, under any circumstances, sign away sovereignty for the illusion of diplomatic virtue.
Yet this is precisely what Keir Starmer is doing with the Chagos Islands, a blunder of historic proportions that is now erupting, quite literally, at Heathrow Airport.
This week, more than 150 Chagossians arrived in Hillingdon, joining over 600 since last summer, British citizens by right and by law, fleeing the very island nation to which Keir Starmer has just pledged their homeland.
They are coming not as migrants, not as supplicants, but as Britons, terrified of being ruled by an emboldened Mauritius that views them with suspicion for daring to cherish the Union Jack. And now, the consequences have landed squarely in a single London borough, where Hillingdon Council faces financial ruin to the tune of £2 million this year, forced by law to house British citizens rendered homeless by Labour’s betrayal. It is a parable of Keir Starmer’s modern Britain, global in its sympathies, parochial in its planning, and utterly devoid of foresight.
The moment Labour announced it would hand over the Chagos Archipelago, a strategic cornerstone of our global presence and host to the vital UK-US base at Diego Garcia, it sent a single unmistakable message to Chagossians: you are expendable. To those who had clung for generations to the hope of returning under the British flag, it said that flag no longer belongs to you, and so they are coming home to Britain because it is the last patch of British soil where they feel safe.
Let us be clear, these are not queue-jumpers or opportunists, they are British, they are the descendants of men and women torn from their islands in the 1960s by the then Labour government to make way for Cold War strategy, and now they are being displaced a second time, this time by Kier Starmer and Westminster’s own pen… again.
But while their right to citizenship is indisputable, the price of Whitehall’s naivety is being paid not by ministers but by the taxpayers of Hillingdon. A council once praised for prudent management now teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, forced to cut £38 million from local services while funding emergency housing for new arrivals who have nowhere else to go. This is what happens when policy is written by people who think in press releases, not in reality or balance sheets.
The Chagos Islands are not just specks of sand, they are the Gibraltar of the Indian Ocean, the keystone of the West’s security architecture, a listening post against threats in Asia and Africa, a launchpad for humanitarian relief and deterrence alike. To give Mauritius ownership in exchange for £101 million a year to rent back our own base for 99 years is to trade sovereignty for a lease, permanence for paperwork. Economists have worked out it will end us costing British taxpayers over £40 billion.
But the folly doesn’t end there. By gifting Chagos to a state bound by the Pelindaba Treaty, which bans nuclear weapons from passing through its territory, Starmer’s plan effectively disarms the US and UK in a critical maritime corridor. It is a gift to China.
Would America lease Pearl Harbor to Mexico, would France rent Normandy from Brussels, would Elon sell his Mars rockets to the UN and buy them back by subscription, the idea is absurd, costly… and dangerous.
The Labour government, ever intoxicated by guilt and self-abasement, has confused magnanimity with masochism, it mistakes retreat for reconciliation. Starmer’s Chagos deal is not decolonisation, it is dereliction, a performative mea culpa at the expense of real people and real power. The tragedy is that those suffering most are the very people Britain should be honouring, loyal British citizens of Chagossian descent who still believe in the values this government is busy dissolving.
A serious Britain, a confident Britain, must act at once. First, it must halt the Chagos handover until the rights, safety, and wishes of all Chagossians are guaranteed in law. Second, it must give them a voice in their own future and properly fund councils like Hillingdon, which are carrying a national burden that should never have been left to local taxpayers. And third, it must reassert strategic sovereignty over every remaining British territory, from Diego Garcia to the Falklands, before this government barters them away for a round of applause at the United Nations.
Because once you start giving away pieces of Britain, you soon discover that Britain itself is not just a place, it is a principle. And principles, once sold, are almost impossible to buy back.
Starmer’s Labour will be remembered as the government that handed away an island, bankrupted a borough, and betrayed a loyal people, all for the hollow vanity of moral posturing. It now falls to us… the people, the patriots, and the defenders of this nation, to draw the line and say: enough. This is our country, our duty, and our moment to stand firm.
Write to your MP. Demand they oppose this shameful deal. Make it unmistakably clear that Britain does not give away her territories, she defends them. The Chagos giveaway must be stopped, and it will be, if we have the courage to act.
The Great British PAC has helped launch a judicial review to halt this catastrophe and ensure the Chagossians are finally given a voice, with the courts due to decide on 28th October whether the challenge can proceed.
This article (Starmer’s Chagos Folly: How Handing Away British Soil is Breaking Britain’s Spirit and Hillingdon’s Bank Account) was created and published by Conservative Post and is republished here under “Fair Use” with attribution to the author CP
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