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‘Surrender Starmer’ Refuses to Rule Out Signing Away Gibraltar and Falklands

by Will Jones
5 October 2024 11:00 AM

Keir Starmer has refused to say whether he would sign away other British overseas territories such as Gibraltar and the Falklands after handing the Chagos Islands to China-ally Mauritius. The Telegraph has the story.

The archipelago was British-owned from 1814 but was signed away by the Government in a deal that it claimed would safeguard global security by ending a long-running dispute.

The islands include Diego Garcia, which hosts a strategically important U.S.-U.K. military base.

The Prime Minister was asked to guarantee that under Labour no other British overseas territories will be signed away. 

He told reporters in response: “The single most important thing was ensuring that we had a secure base, the joint U.S.-U.K. base; hugely important to the U.S., hugely important to us.

“We’ve now secured that and that is why you saw such warm words from the U.S. yesterday.”

A spokesman for No10 told GB News: “Chagos does not change our policy or approach to other overseas territories.”

His remarks came just hours after Argentina pledged to gain “full sovereignty” of the Falkland Islands in the wake of the Chagos deal.

The country’s Foreign Minister, Diana Mondino, welcomed the step taken by Sir Keir’s Government on Thursday towards ending “outdated practices”.

She pledged “concrete action” to ensure that the Falklands – the British territory that Argentina calls the Malvinas and claims as its own – are ceded to Buenos Aires.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Chagos IslandsChinaKeir StarmerLabour

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Jon Garvey
Jon Garvey
7 months ago

The Chagos Islands were ceded to Britain by a treaty. Does anybody know if the government of the day has the legal right to negate treaties without the consent of Parliament? Doesn’t that sound rather presidential?

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
7 months ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

Welcome to the world of Starmer and his cronies say it must be, and bugger the rest of you.

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Dinger64
Dinger64
7 months ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

Exactly, it’s not his to give away

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Pete Sutton
Pete Sutton
7 months ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

Wonderful what hey can sneak through when Parliament isn’t sitting – and it hasn’t for most of their three months in office!

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Grim Ace
Grim Ace
7 months ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

Labour behave like the communist totalitarians that they really are. They’d love a dictatorship. Evil people.

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varmint
varmint
7 months ago

Starmer is a Globalist PUPPET…..This is not in the least bit unexpected.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
7 months ago
Reply to  varmint

Gibraltar and the Falklands are certain give aways now. This Next Tuesday is…well, a treasonous Next Tuesday.

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Pete Sutton
Pete Sutton
7 months ago

How have they “secured” Diego Garcia? In what way was it insecure before?

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David101
David101
7 months ago
Reply to  Pete Sutton

Don’t think anyone’s ahead of you on this. Otherwise there would have been some explanation in the Telegraph article. I fear the answer to your questions are: They haven’t, and it wasn’t.

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soundofreason
soundofreason
7 months ago

Sir Keir ‘Faithless’ Starmer.

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davidcraig68
davidcraig68
7 months ago

With surrender monkey Starmer in Downing Street, if I lived in tha Falklands, I’d start learning Spanish or whatever it is they speak in serially-bankrupt corrupt, failed-state Argentina.

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Jonathan M
Jonathan M
7 months ago
Reply to  davidcraig68

And if I were Gibraltarian I’d be equally concerned.

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The Real Engineer
The Real Engineer
7 months ago
Reply to  davidcraig68

I would be asking that 4 Regiments of the British Army be dispatched to defend our Islands! And what is left of the Navy and Airforce. Stalin wants to get rid of our services all together! This is why.

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JohnK
JohnK
7 months ago

The Chancellor might be relaxed about dumping Gibraltar, but might say NO re the Falklands.

Worth noting that if the Gov was still interested in oil as an energy source, the existence of oil to be extracted is a reason for holding on to the Falkland Islands. However, there are quite a few published articles on this topic, including the potential dispute as to whether it should ever be used at all. It would be ironic if the islanders wanted to extract oil and sell it South America. Maybe money would want to get out of the UK altogether in that case; who knows.

Just search for “falklands oil reserves”.

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JohnK
JohnK
7 months ago
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E.g. https://www.offshore-technology.com/news/uk-cant-stop-falklands-islands-extracting-oil-from-sea-lion-field/

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Jonathan M
Jonathan M
7 months ago
Reply to  JohnK

The Government – in the form of Mad Ed Milliband – is not interested in oil as an energy source – so expect the Falklands to be surrendered sooner rather than later.

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The Real Engineer
The Real Engineer
7 months ago
Reply to  JohnK

No, the People who live there are British! Idea, lets give away Wales to Russia!

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Cotfordtags
Cotfordtags
7 months ago
Reply to  JohnK

I fear that this is the prime reason why this Government will give up the Falklands. The power to issue licenses for oil and gas extraction lies with the Government in Port Stanley and not Westminster. Therefore, Milliband will not be able to stop them doing it and his plan to stop all oil extraction will fail. Handover the islands to Argentina and it is more carbon production exported and more achievement for the idiot.

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Grim Ace
Grim Ace
7 months ago

If that communist bstard tries to give up the Falklands and Gib, he’ll be hanging from a lamppost by the end of the month (metaphorically, before the Gestapo start checking my thinking).

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davidcraig68
davidcraig68
7 months ago
Reply to  Grim Ace

You mean ‘Keirstapo’?

Last edited 7 months ago by davidcraig68
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Jonathan M
Jonathan M
7 months ago
Reply to  davidcraig68

Nice one! Keirstapo, Free Gear Keir, Two-tier Kier….has ANY Prime minister gathered so many negative nicknames in so short a time?

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NeilofWatford
NeilofWatford
7 months ago

He’ll do whatever his Chinese overlords demand, and do it willingly.
Every action so far, inc open borders, carbon zero, wrecking the economy, benefits the CCP.
They humiliated a corrupt Biden and used their Democrat agents to destroy America using the same playbook.
If you want to understand Starmer’s next move, look east.
It is willing, deliberate, intentional and completely overlooked by ourz naive MSM.

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soundofreason
soundofreason
7 months ago

People ask about Gibraltar or the Falkland Islands. How long has Northern Ireland got?

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Sforzesca
Sforzesca
7 months ago

Well, if that be true that’s a signal to Spain and Argentina if ever I saw one.
As I recall/ some idiot Labour foreign secretary said as much re the Falkands re Argentina.
That worked out well.

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The Real Engineer
The Real Engineer
7 months ago
Reply to  Sforzesca

Do you mean the racially prejudiced one against Brits, who hasn’t got two brains to rub together?

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The Real Engineer
The Real Engineer
7 months ago

Starmer cannot do this without full consent of Parliament. Can a single MP make a binding Treaty which applies to all the population? He has assumed this will pass because he has a majority, an assumption which cannot be made. We, the British people do not consent, and even more particularly will not have parts of our population, the Falklands or Gibraltar, given away to a foreign power. Who does he think he is? I suggest the entire Labour party be transferred to China or Russia and be deported NOW. This is simply dictatorship of the type which Stalin would be proud. Has he asked the population if they wish to be transferred? No, and they probably don’t! Evil.

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T. Prince
T. Prince
7 months ago

What does the ‘Opposition’ Party have to say? Oh wait….

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