RIP
RIP
qrd?
are you telling me this flag is going to get even rarer?
It has officially been ceded to Mauritius (effective next month, except for one military base on one of the islands). The sun is setting on the British empire on June 1st
They're handing it over to Mauritius
Diego Garcia will remain British for 99 years though
communist occupied government
vgh, the last battle of the Hundred Years War was lost…
Diego Garcia
Only the military base
our faggot cuckold government is betraying us as they do
The sun indeed does set on the British Empire.
can someone explain this to me
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
our government is giving away one of the most strategically important islands in the world and paying Mauritius for the pleasure.
the island also has fuck all to do with Mauritius
Why didn't you give it to us? Betrayal
one of the most strategically important islands
not really
Why are they doing that?
Insane
Has there ever been a civilization that just chose to die like this before?
Cede all held territory, abandon their church, disparage the entirety of their heritage, give homeland away to foreigners
Complete spiritual and psychological defeat
because fuck whitey
it is
Okay but why Mauritius in particular? What's the backstory? Why not Bharat?
it is
no it isn't
Was this the severely unpopulated evil british pedo island? that's why they're giving it away?
How long until they disestablish the monarchy and what we once called Britain is just gone forever?
The UN said it was heckin' colonized or something and should go back to Mauritius (despite the fact that the descendants of the people who lived there absolutely do not want it to go back to Mauritius) and Starmer is a consummate cuck who decided to do their bidding.
Note that not only are they giving this territory back, they're actually going to start paying rent to Mauritius to continue to lease the base there.
she got dat arse
damn
wrong thread
no it's one with an important military base
I live on the nonce island
Gibraltar will be given back to spain
Northern ireland will be given back to ireland
That little airbase section of Cyprus will be given back to Cyprus
Falklands will be given back to argentina
All the overseas territories will be redistributed to various neighboring countries
The empire will finally be exterminated 100%
No vestiges of it will exist in the forms of little piss ant islands in the middle of the Atlantic ocean
Fuck the british empire and all it stood for tbqhwyl
Falklands will be given back to argentina
they never owned it
1. They were part of the same colony.
2. It was agreed that colonies wouldn't be split up on decolonisation.
3. We were like 'fuck it' and did it anyway because we were still in Empire mode.
4. Later it just became a US base and we left the EU so the other European countries started to join-in with bullying us in the UN.
5. Also we want to trade and influence thirdies.
6.Both Labour AND Tories negotiate a deal with the deal being finalised under Labour.
The UK needs to be given back to italy
Did Mauritius own what you just gave them?
t. Clueless
no, that doesn't make your point, moron
They actually did
Jewish lies
According to the BBC:
Sir Keir Starmer has signed a deal to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and lease back a key military base for £101m a year.
It's funny cause I read that the UK was going to get 101m pounds a year but no, they are actually the ones PAYING that amount just to have a military base in some islands they used to own. It's fucking surreal to me mate, like just keep the islands, the fuck is Mauritius going to do, the fuck does anyone care.
There has to be some major key point I'm missing out on because I cannot believe a nation can be this fucking stupid. Someone get Starmer out of office right now.
Can I get some brits to give me Gibraltar and PAY me for it?
It makes no sense. It should have been given to China, since the Indian ocean is in the Chinese sphere of influence.
Britain consolidates Empire holdings into large administrations
Britain organises Mauritius and the Chagos islands in the same administration
Britain grants Mauritius independence but keeps the Chagos Islands because it's strategically valuable, almost totally uninhabited, and has only ever been controlled by European powers
Britain buys the islands from Mauritius in the 1960s anyway as a gesture of goodwill
Mauritius engages in lawfare to have the islands given to them
British Prime Minister is best friends with the lawyer leading Mauritius' campaign
Britain gives away the islands, the military base, and pays for the privilege so our PM and his friends can score a pointless win among themselves.
This occurs against everyone's wishes, including the inhabitants of the Chagos Islands who actually prefer Britain because Mauritius has a long history of brutalising the islanders
tldr; PM waists billions and gives away a military base just to impress his friends
That was my first post seething faggot
Leftists are fifth collumns working against their host county *wow*
brits decided to just give up an island for no reason to a country that wasn't asking for it with citizens that didnt want it
They "owned" it in the sense that they were part of the same administration, but that's literally their only claim to the island. we gave them a big wad of money for it in the 1960s as a gesture of goodwill, but they've been arguing ever since that it all happened under "duress." The ICJ sided with Mauritius and our prime minister - a lawyer who believes in the supremacy of international courts over all else - obliged and gave away the islands. Ignore, he's just being a faggot
It's actually insane, like the entire thing is being done to make the UK seem less colonial o algo but it's going to have ZERO benefit and if anything increase the pressure to give other territories away. Left-leaning governments have this bizarre obsession with destroying national sovereignty to mollify brown people
wasn't asking for it
uhhh they've been trying to make the UN force the UK to give it to them for decades on dubious legal grounds
Bullshit.
It was agreed that colonies wouldn't be split up on decolonisation.
So what? Look at India/Pakistan, Ethiopia/Eritrea, etc.
we left the EU so the other European countries started to join-in with bullying us in the UN.
Please at least reciprocate, e.g. causing trouble to the French in New Caledonia or backing Morocco on Ceuta and Melilla
we want to trade and influence thirdies.
Showing weakness is the worst thing that you can do then... China is rising not by appeasing thirdies but by colonising and oppressing Tibet and East Turkestan and militarising contested islands in south china sea.
You are just committing a suicide in slow motion, and losing the respect of the world.
nonce island
kek
Colonialism is le bad
Also this island should go to these guys because they happened to be part of the same colonial administrative region but have absolutely nothing at all in relation to each other
Meanwhile when Ngubu tribes kill each other because the colonial borders put them in the same country it's whiteys fault, but they won't allow these guys to be separate when it's what they want
I reckon there's probably more happening behind closed doors than what we're aware of. It's an open secret that India are seething that Britain has sovereignty over land in what - if India ever gets its shit together - would be their sphere of influence. I don't know if it's a coincidence that the UK-India trade deal happened within a month of the UK handing over the Chagos islands, but it's something to think about.
There's also a lot of rumours that the Biden government put a lot of pressure on the UK to give up the islands too, also to win goodboy points with India.
e.g. causing trouble to the French in New Caledonia or backing Morocco on Ceuta and Melilla
The UN will do that anyway, next they're going for the rest of our overseas territories, then the french overseas territories, then the dutch, the danish, and then the US overseas territories
You must be Indian