In Tutela Nostra Limuria?

As the deadline passes for Britain to cede the Chagos Islands, the good old BBC is still calling Diego Garcia the "home" of the American base there, and it is still referring to the rest of the archipelago as "uninhabited" as if it always had been.

Chagos is the infallible litmus test of being inside or outside the British Establishment. But Mauritius has also done damn all for the Chagossians over the years. They are very badly treated there. What matters now is self-determination. Not only, but not least, because that would close a base that has been vital to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and to the practice of extraordinary rendition. 

In the person of David Miliband, the last Labour Government, to which most Labour MPs will remain devoted, was so evil as to declare a "marine reserve" around the Chagos Islands, in order to prevent the return of the illegally and immorally exiled Islanders. 

No one would ever do that to the Falkland Islanders. Google some images of the Falkland Islanders, Google some images of the Chagossians, and see if you can spot the difference. In the same vein is the view that there are somehow too many people in the world. Which people, exactly? We all know the answer to that one.

Most Labour MPs are still going to be as bad as Miliband, whom most of them had wanted as Leader in 2010. Not only that, but the injustice against the Chagossian people was perpetrated by Denis Healey in the first place.

Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. I am standing for Parliament here at North West Durham. The crowdfunding page is here, and buy the book here. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.