This evening, there will be yet another parliamentary display of the fact that while Conservative Prime Ministers did nothing for the Chagossians, Labour Prime Ministers actively knifed them.
Backed up by Foreign Secretaries whom the Right went on to regard as Labour's great lost Leaders: Harold Wilson by Denis Healey, Gordon Brown by David Miliband. Yvette Cooper kept me in prison twice as long as I was supposed to have been, to grease just one, and a very rusty, cog in the wheel of her future Leadership campaign.
But of the MPs who stood with the Chagossians for decades, Tam Dalyell is dead, Alex Salmond is dead, George Galloway is out of Parliament, and only Jeremy Corbyn remains. Over to him.
Farage?
ReplyDeleteHe only got there last year. But if he wanted to do something about this, then good luck to him. So long as he worked with the people who had been on this case for years.
DeleteSupport for the Chagossians was considered one of the signs that Corbyn was out of touch with the man down the Dog and Duck, and sinsterly anti-British to boot, because that is how the Right depicts standing up to the Americans, as also to the Saudis or the Israelis.
I remember the Chagossians in the Corbyn years, wasn't it you who brought them on board along with a couple of others?
ReplyDeleteWell, that would pay me too high a compliment. But I was involved in trying to coordinate their efforts with those of the Dalits and the Rohingya in the heady days of Early Corbynism.
DeleteReform would have sent asylum seekers there, as they want to house asylum seekers in Gibraltar which is one of the most densely populated places on the planet, or the Falklands Islands which has only 3,470 people and already costs nearly £150,000 per person per year.
ReplyDeleteNo, that would have annoyed Donald Trump.
DeleteSending them to the Falklands would cost more than the Rwanda Scheme.