4 Oct
10:32am, 4 Oct 2024
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paulcook
They were uninhabited before various European settlers turned up. So yes a different question to a different situation.
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4 Oct
10:34am, 4 Oct 2024
25,747 posts
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larkim
SPR wrote: @larkim so it was indeed an odd reason to bring him up, lol. Informed by twitter too, where I happened to see in my feed him praising the decision. He didn't just leap into my mind from nowhere! |
4 Oct
10:42am, 4 Oct 2024
46,333 posts
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SPR
larkim wrote: SPR wrote:@larkim so it was indeed an odd reason to bring him up, lol. Informed by twitter too, where I happened to see in my feed him praising the decision. He didn't just leap into my mind from nowhere! Yes, but that's perfectly reasonable especially if he's been campaigning on it and not really a reason to make a snide comment regarding it. |
4 Oct
10:43am, 4 Oct 2024
245 posts
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Yakima Canutt
It's not just the islands we give up but the 200mile out from the coast of the islands which under the UN Convention for the Law of the Seas the coastal stare has economic rights over. Clearly no expectation of finding oil there (unlike the Falklands) otherwise the situation might be different. Hanging onto the Falklands also gives UK a say in future territory talks about the Antarctic.. Minerals again. I remember Hong Kong being different as I Think UK has leased it from China and that situation was simply the coming to and end of the lease. Did we not have to pay any dilapidations remediation cost to China 😉. |
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4 Oct
10:47am, 4 Oct 2024
6,615 posts
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paulcook
I might be wrong but I don’t think we used any economic rights around the Chagos Islands other than it being a marine sanctuary. If that is the case then we’re no longer in control there. Pardon the pun, but it would be a drop in the ocean.
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4 Oct
10:52am, 4 Oct 2024
46,334 posts
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SPR
The marine sanctuary thing seems to have been a ruse at the time to hold onto the islands from what I've read?
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4 Oct
11:03am, 4 Oct 2024
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jda
If it's all up to the residents to decide then what about Scotland?
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4 Oct
11:07am, 4 Oct 2024
27,467 posts
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Bazoaxe
We decided when asked jda. 55/45
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4 Oct
11:10am, 4 Oct 2024
6,616 posts
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paulcook
Yes jda. Ireland too? Plus Cornwall, Man, Channel Islands, …
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4 Oct
11:45am, 4 Oct 2024
25,750 posts
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larkim
SPR wrote: larkim wrote:SPR wrote:@larkim so it was indeed an odd reason to bring him up, lol. Informed by twitter too, where I happened to see in my feed him praising the decision. He didn't just leap into my mind from nowhere! Yes, but that's perfectly reasonable especially if he's been campaigning on it and not really a reason to make a snide comment regarding it. I'm bang to rights here - but the attitude of the Corbynistas makes it feel, as a Starmerite, that nothing this govt does can every be good or right. So it's an emotional reaction to point out that there remain areas where this govt is acting well, and where that definition of acting well happens to correspond with policies and attitudes that Corbyn's acolytes would claim total ownership over. |
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