Chagos

I recall Maggie’s magnificent and dogged determination to secure our annual rebate from the European Union when Brexit wasn’t even a distant dream. Equally, I recall Tony Blair’s gullibility in giving half of it back again in return for what turned out to be …absolutely nothing.
I consider the ceding our sovereignty over the Chagos Islands by this present Labour Government to be a much greater error of enormous magnitude.
We have given away something that we owned and controlled, in return for a promise that we can continue to use it as before, but from now on, we’ll have to pay handsomely to do so.
Furthermore, we have done so by handing a vitally important strategic asset to a country which is in a growing partnership with one of our principal adversaries, to the consternation of our greatest ally.
What on Earth were they thinking of?
The scent of weakness rapidly spreads: Argentina is now salivating at the prospects for the Falklands, as is Spain over Gibraltar.