Snatching winter fuel allowance from OAPs while giving away billions AND Chagos makes us an international laughing stock

BENDING the genu is 1 of Sir Keir Starmer’s favourite exercises.

Nothing illustrates his abject impulse for appeasement much graphically than his mishandling of the Government’s argumentation towards the Chagos Islands successful the Indian Ocean.

Few members of the nationalist had heard of these islands earlier Starmer came to power, but his spectacular ineptitude is accelerated turning the negotiations astir their aboriginal into a large nationalist ungraded that could adjacent descend his government.

The large historiographer Robert Conquest erstwhile wrote that the “behaviour of immoderate bureaucratic organisation tin champion beryllium understood by assuming that it is controlled by a concealed cabal of its enemies”.

Those words could surely beryllium applied to Labour’s disastrous stance connected the Chagos Islands, which makes nary rational consciousness successful the discourse of Britain’s strategical needs.

The lone mentation is that Starmer and his interior ellipse of advisers person been truthful blinded by their worship of planetary judicial activism that they person descended into an insidious signifier of institutionalised treachery against Britain.

At the bosom of this saga is the information that the islands person been successful British hands for much than 200 years, ever since the 1814 Treaty of Paris.

Over these 2 centuries, the archipelago became an important strategical plus for Britain, the US and our Western allies.

Particularly captious has been the subject basal astatine Diego Garcia, whose relation successful upholding the information of the escaped satellite has go adjacent much important successful caller decades arsenic China’s assertive ambitions person intensified.

Yet, bizarrely, Starmer has chosen to negociate the handover of the islands to Mauritius, which has unconvincingly laid assertion to the territory, adjacent though it lies 1,300 miles from the archipelago and has ne'er occupied an inch of its soil.

Indeed, erstwhile Mauritius archetypal gained independency successful 1968, the caller authorities showed nary involvement successful taking power of the islands.

Attitudes subsequently changed, and Mauritius embarked connected ineligible action, with a grade of success.

In 2019, the International Court of Justice ruled that Britain should manus implicit the islands, a verdict aboriginal endorsed by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.

In the look of this ruling, the Tory Government stood up for Britain’s rights and the West’s interests.

But specified robustness vanished erstwhile Starmer came to power.

A fervent believer successful the implicit primacy of planetary law, helium has been hopeless to scope a woody with Mauritius, a extremity that helium shares with the Attorney General Lord Hermer, different quality rights lawyer whose full vocation has been immersed successful the anti-British values of the progressive metropolitan elite.

This is simply a antheral who counts Irish Republican erstwhile person Gerry Adams and jihadi span Shamima Begum among his clients.

The woody that Starmer has cooked up reflects Labour’s cowardly folly.

Not lone does the Government program to springiness distant the islands but volition wage Mauritius a whopping sum for the privilege of taking them, arsenic agelong arsenic Britain is allowed continuing entree Diego Garcia base.

It has been reported that implicit a lease play of 99 years, we volition marque yearly payments of £90million, bringing the full to £8.9billion, though the authorities of Mauritius says that, with inflation, the sum is much apt to beryllium £19billion.

That is much than our Government presently spends successful full each twelvemonth connected policing and prisons.

AGGRESSIVE AMBITIONS

It is ridiculous to expect Britain to subsidise a distant authorities connected specified a colossal standard erstwhile our ain nationalist services astatine location are crying retired for much cash.

It is truthful emblematic of Starmer’s twisted outlook that helium should beryllium much acrophobic astir winning the support of Mauritius than addressing the concerns of his ain citizens.

If the Labour authorities were not draining distant truthful overmuch wealth successful the Indian Ocean, determination would beryllium nary request to retreat the Winter Fuel Allowance, and the Chancellor Rachel Reeves would person less achromatic holes connected her Treasury equilibrium sheet.

Nigel Farage, ne'er 1 to miss an opportunity, chided Starmer yesterday by noting that pensioners “are losing their Winter Fuel Allowance, feeling the pinch astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic we are giving distant a subject base”.

Now it is opening to dawn connected Starmer’s ain MPs however superior their leader’s costly folly could be.

Several elder figures successful the Government person described the Prime Minister’s projected statement arsenic “terrible”, “mad” and “impossible to understand”.

At slightest 1 subordinate of the Cabinet has voiced his concern. But it is doubtful if specified absorption volition beryllium heeded.

Starmer and his allies similar Lord Hermer are bent connected their foolish course.

In their mindset, compliance with planetary courts, nary substance however obscure, is the cardinal duty.

The thought of putting Britain archetypal oregon giving much value to the antiauthoritarian volition of the radical is alien to them. Starmer said yesterday that a woody would “address the wrongs of the past.”

What wrongs? Mauritius’s assertion is painfully bladed and lone an anti-colonial ideologue similar Starmer would autumn for it.

Starmer besides said that the basal “cannot run arsenic it should without ineligible certainty.”

What connected world does that mean?

If helium is arguing that Britain cannot person a subject beingness successful immoderate disputed territory, past we volition person to get retired of the Falklands, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar.

Indeed, according to his logic, we should wage Argentina, the Irish Republic and Spain to instrumentality these places disconnected our hands.

That again illustrates the lunacy of Labour’s policy.

If we are to person immoderate integrity near arsenic a nation, this strategy indispensable beryllium reversed, different we volition beryllium seen arsenic an planetary laughing banal and a fickle ally.