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I never thought handing them over to Mauritius was the right thing. Using them as a naval base is also messed up but that wasn't going anywhere.
So I see this a positive thing, but the optics for Starmer couldn't be worse. It makes him look like Trumps lapdog.
I've pretty much had the opposite reaction to this news. Starmer's critics had painted the original decision as being the result of his legalistic tendencies triumphing over common sense. Personally, had totally imbibed that point of view because it fit with my preconceptions. (Possibly I was right and he's using the recent anti-Trump sentiment as a smoke screen to give a post-hoc impression of competence.)
Hearing he had been acting pragmatically to curry favour with a notoriously transactional US president makes me view the original decision in a better light. If that's true, he's actually standing up to Trump by telling him to sort out the legality of the US base for himself. Pretty much every European leader had been taking the same tact of public flattery and private diplomacy before this week had Greenland spillover.
Sometimes I wonder if Starmer would need to put out a press statement saying, "DJT, eat shit" before he got any acknowledgement of representing the UK assertively on the world stage.
I think the world's middle powers should answer Carney's call for a new world order of middle powers. We don't have to fight for the scraps the super powers toss in the dirt for us. We have our own powers, dignity, 1.5 billion pop market isn't something to sneer at,
Carney has been leading the middle nations in the sense that he's taken a tough public stance against Trump for years. European leaders have finally started to adopt his rhetoric this week after Trump took the Greenland crisis to the brink.
Given that I don't think he was referring to creating more treaties or supranational bodies, I think by matching Carney's rhetoric world leaders have answered his call.
What does that have to do with the article?
This is good for Britain.
~~Workers~~ Nations of the world unite
Everyday he lowers my opinion of him.
Which at this point is something of a miracle.
Who?
Yes.
The Chagos deal was going to be Starmer's favour to Trump. The UK was going to pay to keep using it, just to host the US base there. It was essentially another conservative mess for Labour to clean up, and another example of Trump having a strop about something that he had already been in favour of. I say go ahead and pull it: this is the perfect opportunity to have another bill and keep the US out of this one.
I have a suspicion trump hates this entirely because it was planned by biden originally.
He being mad about free land makes even less sense than he usually does.
Yeah lol. That and wanting to lash out because he's mad Europe called him out on his Greenland threat
Weren't all the former Chagos inhabitants against this?
Yep indeed! And the least he could've done was tell them it wasn't going ahead, instead of letting them stress about it for about a year or two.
Wtf? Why now? Does he just do things and somehow funnel all the hate mail towards a spam email account which he only checks a week before said Reform is gonna go through?
And btw can anyone point me towards ANYTHING Starmer has proposed and actually followed through on? Despite having a megalithic majority he only backs down from proposals and does stuff the tories could have done anyway.