Revealed: Chagos deal to cost 10 times what Starmer claimed
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/08/10/revealed-chagos-deal-to-cost-10-times-what-starmer-claimed/
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Revealed: Chagos deal to cost 10 times what Starmer claimed
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/08/10/revealed-chagos-deal-to-cost-10-times-what-starmer-claimed/
Posted by ThatchersDirtyTaint
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Let’s face it blue or red MPs always have some creative accountancy
True cost is apparently £35bn (for comparison, the new ‘black hole, prepare for big tax rises’ figure is £50bn).
Jesus Christ.
Why must we pay for the pleasure? It’s crazy that after they will talk about gutting benefits and assistance, they will *pay* to weaken us on the world stage.
There genuinely must be a bigger play here, because on its face the deal is insane and harmful.
£35b for Starmer to look like a top chap to the UN and his other posh fellow legal professionals. What a bargain.
I still cannot fathom why we are doing this. Why is this the right thing to do?
Just why , give the remaining chaos islanders a couple of million each who were removed from the islands let them live on some of the other islands if they want and keep the islands as UK oversea territory the majority of the orginal islanders I’m sure would prefer that than the deal with a country 2000 miles away who are just gonna glee fully blow the money .
Of course the Torygraph will continue to bring this up, but it *is* a ridiculous deal and we should never have given away sovereign territory, never mind having to pay for the privilege.
Especially when it’s a strategic location and the country we’re giving it away to is borderline hostile.
And yes I know, technically we are just giving it away and then paying for the base we have there, but it’s effectively the same thing.
Hey look we found the black hole… Or at least most of it…
Imagine doing things like this in an accountancy job. You’d be fired. Possibly even see court time. But no these slippery rats constantly get absolutely no comebacks.
I think the deal is actually a smart and forward-looking move which finally settles a dispute that has dragged on for decades and strengthens the UK’s strategic position..
Keeping long-term access to Diego Garcia is vital for defence and intelligence in a key region while also recognising Mauritius’s sovereignty helps fix diplomatic relations.. The financial cost is big but investing in national security and strong international partnerships I’d say is pretty essential for the UK’s future.. Sometimes you do have to pay a price to make real progress..
I mean why is this starmers fault.
James Cleverly negotiated and signed this deal and now it’s been on starmer to implement it.
The tories are acting like they had nothing to do with this and yet they negotiated the entire thing.
Amazing how people will get angry over an island they never heard of until their mate Terry at the pub told them – right after he was banned from Facebook again for “telling the truth” – but not multinational elites running off with half the country and dodging tax.
Priorities powered by lukewarm steak bakes and Talk TV brainworms.
Please have faith in Daddy Starmer and Labour! Reddit told me the adults were back in the room! I’m sure any day now all of their decisions will pay off.
My god is this bad.
Seems there was three things that the UK could have done?
1. Ignore the court’s silly ruling on a technicality and solve the Chagos issue some other way, like giving some land back to Chagoans and giving them UK citizenship. Not perfect, but probably no one will care.
2. Accept the court and say you will give the land to Maritius in x amount of time and tell the US and Maritius to work out the problem.
3. Make a deal with Maritius that gives them everything they would want and the US
Somehow, Starmer and co didn’t even do three, and got no security guarantees for even the US besides renting the base.
Geniuenly impressive honestly.
It’s the most insane deal ever.
Giving away valuable British territory that has strategic, military, and ecological value.
And paying them tens of billions to take it.
Mauritius, a country that never ever owned or settled the Chagos Islands, that is over 2000 kilometres away from the Chagos Islands, and that is heavily influenced by China.
What the actual hell.
Oh, and of course the Chagosians weren’t consulted on it either.
So glad the good people of Mauritius no longer have to pay any income tax as Reeves squeezes us with yet another tax hike. Money well spent!
He is eating up every single time-bomb set up by the Tories.
Every. Single. One.
Dude, when are you gonna learn?
Why are we even leasing it, we should just give it back and move out. America can keep it or leave it. I don’t understand why the UK is letting itself be scammed, those terms are far from fair.
Well, a future government can stop paying but the damage of ceding the territory is done. The US effectively runs the place and keeps it secure anyway.
Absolute joke. First we try to give away sovereign territory due to a legal ‘recommendation.’ Then we get convinced to pay Mauritius to take our territory that they caused the fuss about in the first place. Now it turns out the government hid the true cost which is roughly equivalent to recent housing and environment budgets. But don’t worry though, Starmer said it was all worth it for the invaluable resource of ‘soft power.’ There is no soft power, the country looks like a joke.
First the government makes themself a fool and then they think we are all fools too. Yeah I guess I am a fool trusting labour with my vote last election. Voting Lib Dem’s next time around, I’m sick of labours bull shit, they do not represent what they claim to stand for and they piss over the achievements of old labour.
And to all those who say it was the conservatives who constructed the deal. Yes that’s true but just like with the online safety act, labour had the power to stop it all in an instant. Instead they made it worse for us.
Can we please do some research before reacting to click bait?
As others as said there is a set yearly fee which could amount to the figure mentioned over an almost hundreds year period.
Quite why we can’t just give them sovereignty and be done with this silliness I am unsure of.
It’s a bit of an impossible situation for all involved, whilst I am uncomfortable with this solution I don’t have a better one to offer.
And yet still negligible against the timescales provided