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Honestly, with everything happening in the United States this fall, election-wise, and watching Keir Starmer stumble headlong into ‘most rapidly despised Prime Minister in history’ territory, I’d completely spaced this particular October sin of his.

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And a most unwelcome, sprung-out-of-nowhere sin it was.

No Time Like the Present for the UK to Give Away *gulp* Diego Garcia

In this world, there have been “giveaways”  – like Oprah with her cars for you and you and YOU!!

And then there have been “giveaways,” or “givebacks’ like, says, the Panama Canal. 

Or Bagram.

Sometimes they work out okay, sometimes they don’t. 

…Crumble, crumble, crumble. Our bulwarks and outposts against the evil in this world are dropping away, and we are doing nothing to keep them.

And now another one of our stalwart outposts hangs in the balance.

Starmer has agreed that Britain will return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, subject to a treaty signing. They include our remote air and naval base at Diego Garcia, for which the Brits have signed a 99-year lease.

The UK has announced it is giving up sovereignty of a remote but strategically important cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean after more than half a century.

The deal – reached after years of negotiations – will see the UK hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a historic move.

This includes the tropical atoll of Diego Garcia, used by the US government as a military base for its navy ships and long-range bomber aircraft…

Only a month before the end of a heated presidential election cycle with dire consequences at stake for the world and our national security at risk, the Biden administration said, “Sounds like a plan to us.“

…”Oh, yay,” said POTATUS, probably from a beach somewhere.

…US President Joe Biden welcomed the “historic agreement”, saying it was a “clear demonstration that through diplomacy and partnership, countries can overcome long-standing historical challenges to reach peaceful and mutually beneficial outcomes”.

He said it secured the future of a key military base which “plays a vital role in national, regional, and global security.”

Sadly for Starmer, Trump beat the vegetable’s stand-in handily. As one might imagine, he (as well as Sec State-designate Marco Rubio) is not inclined in the least to hand over our ‘unsinkable aircraft carrier’ as part of some feel-good progressive Labour deal, especially not with the Chinese not only marauding on the high seas but also having a presence already in Mauritius through different trade deals. One listening outpost allowed on any beach on the Diego Garcia archipelago becomes basically useless to the US for clandestine staging purposes.

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The UK’s Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth, and Developmental Affairs, an overconfident, odious toad named David Lammy, told Politico last November that Trump would “get behind the deal.”

Yet, they were still panicked by the Trump win. So, blustering to the contrary aside, Labour hurriedly made plans to send over a make-nice delegation practically the same day Lammy was running his mouth. The idea was to beg the incoming Trump team not to break out the shredder.

UK government seeks meeting with Trump team over Chagos Islands agreement

National security adviser will travel to Washington in attempt to persuade US president-elect not to rip up deal

Keir Starmer’s national security adviser is to travel to Washington as the UK government tries to persuade Donald Trump not to rip up the Chagos Islands agreement, the Guardian has learned.

Jonathan Powell, who negotiated the Chagos deal earlier this autumn, is drawing up plans to visit the US capital in the coming days, four government sources said.

Powell, who worked for a decade as Downing Street chief of staff for the then prime minister, Tony Blair, is seeking early meetings with Trump’s team ahead of the president-elect’s inauguration on 20 January.

One senior source said the trip, which may involve other government figures, would not be narrowly focused on the Chagos Islands but serve as an opportunity to introduce Starmer’s government to the incoming Trump administration.

UK ministers are concerned that Trump will block the deal to cede control of the Chagos Islands, where the US and UK have a joint military base, to Mauritius. Diego Garcia, the island where the base is located, will remain under UK control for at least the next 99 years.

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But guess what?

On Monday, we found out – SURPRISE! –  NOBODY from Keir Starmer’s government has EVER talked to the Trump team about the deal. EH-VAH.

VURT THE ACTUAL FURK? 

The UK has not had any discussions with the incoming Trump administration over the crumbling Chagos Islands deal, the defence secretary has admitted, amid growing concerns over the future of the agreement.

While the outgoing Biden administration supported the deal, Donald Trump’s team is looking for a way to veto it as a result of concerns over possible Chinese interference.

The Chagos Islands, part of the British Indian Ocean Territory, are seen as strategically important in southeast Asia as America uses the joint UK-US base on Diego Garcia for ships and long-range bombers.

Asked to outline exactly what discussions have been had between ministers and the incoming Trump administration on the future of the Diego Garcia base, John Healey admitted that no talks have yet taken place.

HOLY SMOKES

Even more horrifying, Labour is trying to front-load payments to Mauritius in a mad dash to get the deal done before Trump takes office in ten days!

Britain has offered to pay hundreds of millions upfront to Mauritius in order to secure the Chagos Islands deal.

The Indian Ocean country, just east of Africa, has reportedly been offered £90 million a year by the UK to secure a major US-UK airbase on Diego Garcia.

And under a new proposal several years would be paid up front, potentially totalling hundreds of millions, according to the Financial Times.

It comes after Navinchandra Ramgoolam, the new prime minister, reportedly demanded £800 million per year and billions of pounds in reparations.

His administration announced in December it would reject the agreement agreed by the previous government unless it was renegotiated.

It sure sounds to me as if the new Mauritian prime minister learned a few things from Nigerian prince emails and knows when he’s got a progressive mark by the short hairs.

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Forget about the mad dogs – these are supposed to be Englishmen who are foaming-at-the-mouth lunatics bent on assuring mutual destruction for anyone associated with them.

Gobsmacking.

Word of the rush to dump money the Brits don’t have into the coffers of the Mauritian extortionist to offload something the British own and the free world needs has Labour under fierce fire yet again.

Last year, a Mauritian politician raised eyebrows in Britain when he told a political rally that ‘England has agreed to pay us a compensation’ to the tune of ‘many billions of rupees’ as part of the deal to hand over the Chagos islands to Mauritius. Still, a billion Mauritian rupees only converts to around £17 million, so observers were none the wiser about the financial provisions of the still-secret agreement between the two countries.

If the deal goes through, Britain will be paying a king’s ransom to give away sovereign territory to a foreign power with no rightful claim to it

Now we know that ‘many billions of rupees’ also means ‘many billions of pounds’. This week, it was reported that the 99-year lease for Diego Garcia, which hosts the world’s most important military base, will cost Britain £9 billion, or almost a fifth of the annual defence budget. Mauritius, faced with a large budget deficit, has torn up the original agreement, concluded under a previous government, in order to ask for more money. Instead of using the opportunity to walk away from the negotiations, the Foreign Office is now offering to front-load the payments.

The £9 billion figure, it should also be said, does not include a separate aid package to Mauritius, which was announced in conjunction with the Chagos agreement.

It would be one thing if the £9 billion in Danegeld brought significant advantages to Britain. But there is nothing of the sort. As we make clear in a new report for Policy Exchange, and contrary to the public insinuations of some ministers, Britain is under no legal obligation whatsoever to give the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, whose government happily sold them to Britain in the 1960s. If the deal goes through, Britain will be paying a king’s ransom to give away sovereign territory to a foreign power with no rightful claim to it.

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The common sense thing would be to use this reversal as an escape clause.

…Whether you agree with them or not, most major political decisions are defensible in one way or another. The Chagos deal is different: there is no way in which it can be justified, whether it be in terms of national interest or morality. The British government would do well to use Mauritius’ rejection of the financial provisions to walk away from a deal which, if passed, would represent a low point in the history of British foreign policy.

But, man, it seems this Mauritian prime minister has Starmer’s pathetic, woke, weak-kneed number.

‘Very strange’ is the least offensive adjective I’ve seen.

With the under-handed nature of the entire debacle? 

The UK has offered to frontload payments to Mauritius in a bid to finalise the contentious Chagos Islands deal before Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20.

Britain is offering to pay several years’ worth of the £90million annual lease payments upfront for Diego Garcia, the main island that hosts a crucial UK-US military base.

The move has come as officials race to conclude negotiations over the Indian Ocean archipelago’s sovereignty, with less than two weeks remaining before the President-elect takes office.

Oh, hell, no. Donald Trump will never look to a Labour government as part of that ‘special relationship,’ and why on earth would he?

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Stick a fork in Starmer – he’s done.

Reportedly, these new terms must go through both houses of Parliament, and there might not be enough time before the 20th. Farage runs it all down in this two-minute segment.

I cannot find a single statement from the Trump team on any of this other than Rubio’s quote this fall. It makes me wonder if all his sabre-rattling about the importance of maintaining strategic territory/unforgivable sin of giving it away for nothing (Panama Canal and Greenland feints) wasn’t also a warning to Starmer. Maybe this rush by Labour means they thought so and are too stupid to take the hint, like Hamas and hostages.

All progressives know they are the smartest people they know. They act accordingly and blithely ignore evidence to the contrary.

In the case of the incoming 47th president, despite available history from his first term, this Labour cabal does not have the first clue about who they are dealing with. 

Because, if they did, the silence from Team Trump would have Starmer and his fellow sneks pooping their drawers.