https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47358602

Fire up the aircraft carrier and fuel the jet(s)!

If the Navy can get a wriggle on we’ll be sinking those Mauitian bastards* by mid March.

*They aren’t bastards, but the right wing press have got time to work on it.

Is that not where the Falkland Islanders go for a summer holiday?

KILL THE BASTARDS!

The US military based there might have issues with us going to war with them.Lol

Mind you,a good military drubbing might put our magnified self importance into perspective!

All joking aside, the way we treated the islanders was indeed pretty awful. All things being equal the islands should be returned.

The US military being based there in reality means that the UK will just ignore the ruling as an “advisory”…. As it already has.

We could give them the islands back along with the US lease deal. Unlikely though.

If they Americans can be bothered thinking about this it actually gives them a problem. Support self-determination versus support the colonists…… they’ve been there before (kinda)

“The UK Foreign Office said: “This is an advisory opinion, not a judgment.” ”

You’ve got to laugh really

Thank god this isn’t a time in history where a bit of diplomacy would be useful.

This has been TJ’s cause celebre for years hasn’t it?

Death knell of Empire – it’s an illustration of how far down the pecking order the UK has sunk.

There’s no way that sort of judgement would have happened 30 years ago.

Next, Gibraltar, Falklands?

Shame the islanders still won’t get their island back though. The USA may have some embarrassing moments though…

Carefull
My Dad was Mauritian , and his dad was in the government and met the Queen and everthing
And my great uncle got an OBE for killing all the Malaria mosquitos with DTT and setting fire to aload of thatched cottages, oh and pouring crude oil all over fresh water ponds so they couldn’t stick their probosis through to breathe

This has been TJ’s cause celebre for years hasn’t it?

Its partly that and partly a good way of showing peoples hypocrisy over Gibraltar and The Falklands

Self determination of a people unless they are brown and irritatingly persistant

I agree that all of it should have been handed back, but why aren’t the citizens of Morocco kicking up a fuss about Ceuta?

Let us hope not. My father was from Mauritius and I do not fancy being interned…!

The Falklands comparison isn’t quite the same. The Falklands were deserted and settled ages ago. The Chagos islands were inhabited and it happened within living memory.

Time to fire up XH588 again…

Tbf though, the UNs decolonisation list is a bit mental. No mention of Tibet, Timor, Israeli territory beyond the 67 line etc etc.

johnnystorm

The Falklands comparison isn’t quite the same…

Agree on that.

The point is the UK has just had a big poke in the eye with a blunt stick. It’s more a sign of the times and the international perception of the UK especially by former colonies.

So we can expect to see other disputed territories and sovereignty issues getting aired which otherwise may not have been raised.

The point is the UK has just had a big poke in the eye with a blunt stick. It’s more a sign of the times and the international perception of the UK especially by former colonies

Depends. The comitee has actually lost a lot of it’s legitimacy for failing to include other states – such as Tibet on the list.

No one actually really listens to them anymore.

Alpin – they are! You just don’t hear about in in the press

The Falklands comparison isn’t quite the same…

No – but the arguments used to keep them under the GB flag are ignored for the chagos islands

the way we treated the islanders was indeed pretty awful. All things being equal the islands should be returned.

What does the figure of speech “all things being equal” mean in this context? Surely the point is all things are not equal but they should still be returned?