This year, Sun stopped shining on the British Empire…
The Starmer government gave the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. Just like this, they gave this part of British sovereign territory to another country, albeit a former colony of Britain and a member of the Commonwealth.
I guess my readers here know about Chagos but if you don’t, briefly, Chagos is a home to a big ass airstrip base that the British share with the Americans. It was used in aerial missions in Afghanistan and Iraq. It was probably used to fly missions as far as Russia. To have this base in secrecy, the local population was expelled to Mauritius, many of them later moved to UK.
So, now UK will pay rent to Mauritius for that base, and the indigenous population will likely return to the islands. And I don’t know why this is giving me Crimean Peninsula vibes… Anyway, I cannot help feeling that I don’t know the full story of this…
Insomniac Resurrected 