#  @tedkel Kel Mansfield Kel Mansfield posts on X about mauritius, prime minister, future, keir starmer the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::18362820/interactions)  - [--] Week [------] -86% - [--] Month [-------] +1,408% - [--] Months [---------] +533% - [--] Year [---------] +235,802% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::18362820/posts_active)  - [--] Week [---] -37% - [--] Month [---] +415% - [--] Months [---] +391% - [--] Year [-----] +6,781% ### Followers: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::18362820/followers)  - [--] Week [-----] +2.20% - [--] Month [-----] +43% - [--] Months [-----] +57% - [--] Year [-----] +77% ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::18362820/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) 79.7% [finance](/list/finance) 9.02% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) 6.02% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) 5.26% [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands) 1.5% [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands) 1.5% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) 0.75% **Social topic influence** [mauritius](/topic/mauritius) #50, [prime minister](/topic/prime-minister) #1636, [future](/topic/future) 24.81%, [keir starmer](/topic/keir-starmer) 19.55%, [in the](/topic/in-the) 16.54%, [starmer](/topic/starmer) #223, [prime](/topic/prime) 10.53%, [sir](/topic/sir) 10.53%, [china](/topic/china) 9.02%, [money](/topic/money) #4585 **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@mozzamaura](/creator/undefined) [@markhal87606381](/creator/undefined) [@blondinan](/creator/undefined) [@drchrisparry](/creator/undefined) [@uklabour](/creator/undefined) [@ey_eball](/creator/undefined) [@delbx3](/creator/undefined) [@annebowling](/creator/undefined) [@shazzermac3](/creator/undefined) [@abridgen](/creator/undefined) [@oilpaul](/creator/undefined) [@philbentley20](/creator/undefined) [@eyeball](/creator/undefined) [@streakyblue1951](/creator/undefined) [@stevefroom](/creator/undefined) [@ramonagusta](/creator/undefined) [@bellaclare1](/creator/undefined) [@keirstarmers](/creator/undefined) [@babitamitchell](/creator/undefined) [@benedictspence](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "Is the Chagos Deal really just about money The millions in lawyer fees paid to Philippe Sands and his team and spent on court cases over the [--] years Project Chagos has been running will reap a massive dividend when the billions for the UK's 99-year lease of Diego Garcia start flowing into the coffers of Mauritius. The island of Mauritius which is [--] percent smaller than Luxembourg in size lies [---] miles east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean and it's [----] miles south west of the Chagos Archipelago. For Mauritius to hire a top KC like Sands to help them acquire the Chagos Islands which apart" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2022690623321465021) 2026-02-14T15:13Z [----] followers, 10.3K engagements "Who paid for Keir Starmer's trip to Mauritius in [----] when he stayed in a 5-star resort while discussing the Chagos Islands being given to Mauritius with its prime minister Navin Ramgoolam Starmer wasn't even an MP in [----] but [--] years later as UK prime minister one of Starmer's first acts was to agree a deal to give Mauritius the Chagos Islands and billions of British taxpayers money. BTW Ramgoolam was arrested on money-laundering and conspiracy charges in [----] but he was back as Mauritius PM when Starmer agreed the current deal. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016254762103034006" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2016254762103034006) 2026-01-27T20:59Z [----] followers, 21.9K engagements "Nope. It was agreed and signed under Sir Keir Starmer's Labour government. Mauritius kept putting up the price after the General election and new clauses sections and commitments were added. Shamefully under pressure from the lawyers like Philippe Sands and encouraged by sympathetic civil servants such Vijay Rangarajan the Tories flirted with a deal. But they didn't do one. That was Labour led by a man who has been known to be a major player in Project Chagos since [----]. Project Chagos has been rolling for more than [--] years. Here is some back story. Starmer's "great mate" Philippe Sands KC" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2016444826481287310) 2026-01-28T09:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Another slice of Chagos Pie. If they ever make a sequel to the [----] epic film "The Man Who Would Be King" the new version could be inspired by the adventures of Philippe Sands Keir Starmer and Richard Hermer in Mauritius and the Chagos Archipelago. The plot would revolve around the three lawyers who plan to build a "kingdom" for themselves on a string of unspoiled tropical islands across a vast swathe of the Indian Ocean. Scene [--]. (The opening) A young Philippe Sands in a barrister's wig and black robes is giving a theatrical speech about human rights to a jury at the Old Bailey in London." [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2017267745541271687) 2026-01-30T16:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Project Chagos has been rolling for more than [--] years. Here's the back story. Starmer's "great mate" Philippe Sands KC became counsel for Mauritius for Chagos in [----] the year the Conservatives returned to power in the UK after [--] years of the Blair/Brown New-Labour government. In [----] before he became an MP Keir Starmer was in Mauritius discussing and agreeing the future of the Chagos Archipelago with the Mauritius prime minister Navin Ramgoolam. Starmer stayed at a 5-star resort during his [----] visit and he was presented with a beautiful model sail ship by Ramgoolam who wrote after their" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2017554620160086086) 2026-01-31T11:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Any Labour MP or civil servant still pushing the treacherous Chagos deal will like Sir Keir Lord Richard and Mauritius citizen Philippe forever more be known as traitors and environmental vandals. Chagos will be the Albatross they shot and it will hang rotting round their necks until they lie cold and silent in their burial plots. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017555297783484419 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017555297783484419" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2017555297783484419) 2026-01-31T11:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Just stop the deal and out an end to it. My money is on Sands being behind this visit. Sands became a Mauritius citizen a couple of years ago and has been awarded the country's highest honour. He has positioned himself as the power behind the throne in Mauritius. Sands would be the obvious choice to draw up the treaties lease agreements and fishing rights contracts for the Chagos Archipelago that Mauritius has been discussing with other countries. Sands has made a lot of money directing project Chagos since he was appointed counsel for the islands by Mauritius in [----]. He may be in line for a" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2017609590070735239) 2026-01-31T14:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The Chagos Files joining the dots [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. [----] Starmer becomes Labour Party" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2017648424015757499) 2026-01-31T17:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Joining the dots [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. [----] Starmer becomes Labour Party leader. [----] Sands" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2017654846988410887) 2026-01-31T17:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Project Chagos has been running for over [--] years. Here is the intriguing back story. Starmer's "great mate" Philippe Sands KC became counsel for Mauritius for Chagos in [----] the year the Conservatives returned to power in the UK after [--] years of the Blair/Brown New-Labour government. In [----] before he became an MP Keir Starmer was in Mauritius discussing and agreeing the future of the Chagos Archipelago with the Mauritius prime minister Navin Ramgoolam. Starmer stayed at a 5-star resort during his [----] visit and he was presented with a beautiful model sail ship by Ramgoolam who wrote after" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2017906455861502010) 2026-02-01T10:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Starmer and Ramgoolam met back in [----] in Mauritius to discuss the future of the Chagos Islands. Project Chagos has been rolling for more than [--] years. Here the revealing back story. Starmer's "great mate" Philippe Sands KC became counsel for Mauritius for Chagos in [----] the year the Conservatives returned to power in the UK after [--] years of the Blair/Brown New-Labour government. In [----] before he became an MP Keir Starmer was in Mauritius discussing and agreeing the future of the Chagos Archipelago with the Mauritius prime minister Navin Ramgoolam. Starmer stayed at a 5-star resort during" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2017964895099044204) 2026-02-01T14:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Another dot to add to the Chagos File. This story is from 28th February [----]. Mauritius former Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth was released on bail following his dramatic arrest on Saturday on money laundering charges. He had been detained along with three others after the anti-corruption agency said it had seized suitcases of cash and luxury watches in raids on [--] locations including Jugnauths home. The former prime ministers lawyer said he denied the charges against him. Jugnauths arrest came [---] days after his landslide defeat in elections with his successor Navin Ramgoolam vowing to root" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2017968378674078072) 2026-02-01T14:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The Chagos Files joining the dots [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. [----] Starmer becomes Labour Party" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2017988302565974384) 2026-02-01T15:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Prime Minister Starmer why is the UK making a multi-billion pound deal that has serious implications for western and national security and for the preservation of the Chagos Archipelago's precious marine protection zone with Mauritius when that country's current prime minister Navin Ramgoolam and the previous prime minister Pravind Jugnauth have both been arrested on money-laundering charges after huge amounts of foreign currencies and boxes of luxury watches were found in their homes Sir Keir as you will be fully aware of Mauritius' reputation for corruption being a major money-laundering" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2018024662400209288) 2026-02-01T18:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The reason Starmer wanted Mandelson in Washington as ambassador was most likely so he could "convince" the White House that the Chagos deal was a good one because although the UK had to give the Chagos Islands to Mauritous under international law the British government led by Starmer being a staunch ally of America had leased back Diego Garcia at considerable cost so that the joint US/UK could continue to operate. Starmer sent another of his highly-controversial appointees in National Security Advisor Jonathan "dodgy dossier" Powell to Washington to also "brief" the Trump administration that" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2018267501142909015) 2026-02-02T10:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The Chagos Files joining the dots [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. [----] Starmer becomes Labour Party" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2018317962923352114) 2026-02-02T13:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Dear Prime Minister Starmer Why is the UK making a multi-billion pound deal that has serious implications for western and national security and for the preservation of the Chagos Archipelago's precious marine protection zone with Mauritius when that country's current prime minister Navin Ramgoolam and the previous prime minister Pravind Jugnauth have both been arrested on money-laundering charges after huge amounts of foreign currencies and boxes of luxury watches were found in their homes Sir Keir as you will be fully aware of Mauritius' reputation for corruption being a major" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2018331741535023586) 2026-02-02T14:32Z [----] followers, 12.8K engagements "It's all falling into place. The Chagos Files - joining the dots [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' great mate Keir Starmer KC goes to Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the pair aligned. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling advisory opinion only and non-binding that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. 2020" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2018420382928195952) 2026-02-02T20:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Shamefully the Tories flirted with a Chagos deal under pressure from lawyers like Philippe Sands the counsel for Mauritius since [----] who argued and leveraged the ICJ advisory opinion and sympathetic civil servants such as Vijay Rangarajan. The deal was made by the Keir Starmer led Labour government with Mauritius prime ministers Jugnauth and Ramgoolam. There were new clauses and conditions added in the months of discussions after the GE and Mauritius made several new demands and also repeatedly put up the price of the lease on Diego Garcia. The stupid Tories who were an utter shambles" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2018581994699973117) 2026-02-03T07:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The Chagos Files - joining the dots update [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. [----] Starmer becomes" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2018629195195167024) 2026-02-03T10:14Z [----] followers, 83.4K engagements "The Chagos Files - joining the dots [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. [----] Starmer becomes Labour Party" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2018646199947915703) 2026-02-03T11:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The Chagos Files - joining the dots [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. [----] Starmer becomes Labour Party" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2018646794553446475) 2026-02-03T11:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "ATTENTION Labour MPs PLEASE withdraw your support for Sir Keir Starmer's Chagos deal. You have the information now and know that the UK does not have to give Mauritius the Chagos Archipelago. You know about the threats to the strategically-vital joint UK/US military base on Diego Garcia. You know the deal will lead to the destruction of the islands' precious ecosystems and the Marine Protection Zone. You know the deal disenfranchises the Chagossian people. Please have the courage and the integrity to vote against the Chagos bill and do everything you can to encourage the government to" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2018713820605149689) 2026-02-03T15:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "It's falling into place now. Controversially appointing Peter "friend of Epstein" Mandelson US Ambassador. The equally questionable appointment of Jonathan "dodgy dossier" Powell as National Security Advisor. Breaking with tradition to parachute old friend Richard Hermer into the House Of Lords to be Attorney General. All done to facilitate Starmer's Chagos deal. The Chagos Files - joining the dots update 03/02/26 The time line. [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2018740679829033381) 2026-02-03T17:37Z [----] followers, 26K engagements "Keir Starmer the Labour MPs & Peers the international lawyers led by Philippe Sands and everyone working for and voting for the Chagos Archipelago to be given to China's ally Mauritius knew from the outset that if the deal was ratified it meant an inevitable catastrophe for the wildlife on these rare and precious islands the destruction of their unique ecosystems and the marine protection zone of the British Indian Ocean Territories. They all know that if the bill is forced through it means the British people will be labelled "Chagos traitors" and "environmental vandals" for the rest of time." [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2018781877616705834) 2026-02-03T20:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Project Chagos has been underway for more than [--] years. Here is the intriguing back story. Starmer's "great mate" Philippe Sands KC became counsel for Mauritius for Chagos in [----] the year the Conservatives returned to power in the UK after [--] years of the Blair/Brown New-Labour government. In [----] before he became an MP Keir Starmer was in Mauritius discussing and agreeing the future of the Chagos Archipelago with the Mauritius prime minister Navin Ramgoolam. Starmer stayed at a 5-star resort during his [----] visit and he was presented with a special model of a tall sailing ship by Ramgoolam" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2018802185182622185) 2026-02-03T21:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "No all that needs to be agreed is for Starmer's treacherous Chagos deal to be consigned to the dustbin of history and the Chagos Archipelago to remain British Sovereign Territory. That way there's no threat to the joint vital UK/US military base on Diego Garcia and the precious ecosystems and the marine protection zone around the islands can be preserved. It also ensures the Chagossian people's desire to remain British and their rights to their homeland will be respected. Shifty Lawyers and greedy businessmen looking to make money created this potential environmental disaster. Just rewind and" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2018814511780684066) 2026-02-03T22:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Philippe Sands KC. counsel to Mauritius for Chagos since [----] and chief architect and driver of the project to acquire the Chagos Archipelago for Mauritius has been granted Mauritian citizenship. Why would Sands want to be a Mauritius citizen Maybe it has something to do with the plan to scrap income tax in Mauritius due to the multi millions it will be paid by the UK for the next [--] years. KC's earn big bucks and Sands could be in line for a fat tax-free bonus if the Chagos deal is ratified. Lovely Jubbly. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019020017279345018" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2019020017279345018) 2026-02-04T12:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "From every angle the Chagos deal looks 🤯mad and 😡bad except one. The China angle. China has a close relationship with Mauritius and Beijing has made no secret of the fact it is delighted with the deal. Mauritius has a population of just over one and a quarter million people. China knows everything that happens in Mauritius and can persuade the government to do whatever it wants. Giving the strategically vital Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius is the equivalent to giving it to China. It endangers Western security by comprising the future of the air and sea base on Diego Garcia America's most" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2019037365818319147) 2026-02-04T13:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "From every angle the Chagos deal looks 🤯mad and 😡bad except one. The China angle. China has a close relationship with Mauritius and Beijing has made no secret of the fact it is delighted with the deal. Mauritius has a population of just over one and a quarter million people. China knows everything that happens in Mauritius and can persuade the government to do whatever it wants. Giving the strategically vital Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius is the equivalent to giving it to China. It endangers Western security by comprising the future of the air and sea base on Diego Garcia America's most" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2019038614470926493) 2026-02-04T13:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Labour wanted Kamala Harris to win the [----] US Election and even sent a team to America to campaign for her. But Donald Trump ran out a clear winner on November 4th. [--] days later Sir Keir Starmer appointed Jonathan Powell of "Dodgy Dossier" fame as his National Secutity Advisor. In December Starmer ignored many warning to pick Peter Mandelson a friend of Jeffrey Epstein as his US Ambassador. Mandelson took up his duties in America in February [----]. Starmer's not thick he knew he was taking a big risk by appointing the thrice-disgraced Mandelson as US ambassador and he was also fully aware of" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2019071548481585598) 2026-02-04T15:32Z [----] followers, 50.7K engagements "The Chagos Files - The time line joining the dots updated 04/02/2026 [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius." [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2019119864116281627) 2026-02-04T18:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "India may be close to making a major oil discovery in the Andaman Sea a marginal sea of the northeastern Indian Ocean. That's a long way from the Chagos Archipelago in their part of the Indian Ocean. However the discovery may have encouraged Mauritius to ensure that it had a clause in Keir Starmer's Chagos deal that gave Mauritius full ownership rights of any minerals found on the land and in the sub-sea area of the territorial waters around the islands. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019131916398592333 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019131916398592333" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2019131916398592333) 2026-02-04T19:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Chagos - OIL & Minerals India is close to making major oil discoveries in the Andaman Sea in the Indian Ocean. It's a long way from the Chagos. But there's still a clause in Keir Starmer's Chagos deal which gives Mauritius full ownership rights of any minerals etc. found in the sub-sea area of the territorial waters around the islands. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019339476980416549 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019339476980416549" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2019339476980416549) 2026-02-05T09:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The Chagos deal is worse than you think. Apart from Diego Garcia Mauritius can lease any of the [--] other islands in the archipelago to whoever they want to. Mauritius is a signatory of the African Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone Treaty (Pelindaba) which will impact Diego Garcia operations. Mauritius gets full ownership of all mineral rights including sub-sea in the territorial waters surrounding the islands. The Chagos marine protection zone is the size of France. Mauritius must been informed of all military movements in the archipelago including to Diego Garcia." [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2019343196422021450) 2026-02-05T09:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The Chagos deal is worse than you think. Apart from Diego Garcia Mauritius can lease any of the [--] other islands in the archipelago to whoever they want to. Mauritius is a signatory of the African Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone Treaty (Pelindaba) which will impact Diego Garcia operations. Mauritius gets full ownership of all mineral rights including sub-sea in the territorial waters surrounding the islands. The Chagos marine protection zone is the size of France. Mauritius must been informed of all military movements in the archipelago including to Diego Garcia." [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2019343822958768382) 2026-02-05T09:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Labour wanted Kamala Harris to win the [----] US Election and even sent a team to America to campaign for her. But Donald Trump ran out a clear winner on November 4th. [--] days later Sir Keir Starmer appointed Jonathan Powell of "Dodgy Dossier" fame as his National Secutity Advisor. In December Starmer ignored many warnings to pick Peter Mandelson a friend of Jeffrey Epstein as his US Ambassador. Mandelson took up his duties in America in February [----]. Starmer's not thick he knew he was taking a big risk by appointing the serially-disgraced Mandelson as US ambassador and he was also fully aware" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2019348561536721212) 2026-02-05T09:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The Chagos Files - The time line 04/02/2026 [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. [----] Starmer becomes" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2019381677726781867) 2026-02-05T12:04Z [----] followers, 19.4K engagements "It was no secret that giving Mauritius the 58-odd Chagos islands would result in some of them falling into China's hands. Sir Keir Starmer was a leading human-rights barrister operating internationally for decades and he would have been fully aware that China had huge ambitions in the Indian Ocean. In [----] Starmer even discussed giving Chagos to Mauritius with prime minister Navid Ramgoolam the same man he agreed the current deal with in [----] straight after he entered Downing Street. Here is the Chagos time line. [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2019396010615738571) 2026-02-05T13:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The Chagos Files - The time line [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. [----] Starmer becomes Labour Party" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2019405899094237602) 2026-02-05T13:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The Chagos Files - The time line [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. [----] Starmer becomes Labour Party" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2019406664571531531) 2026-02-05T13:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The Chagos Files - The time line [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. [----] Starmer becomes Labour Party" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2019408902106886647) 2026-02-05T13:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The Chagos Files - The time line joining the dots updated 04/02/2026 [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius." [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2019409298455998739) 2026-02-05T13:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "It was no secret that giving Mauritius the 58-odd Chagos islands would result in some of them falling into China's hands. Sir Keir Starmer was a leading human-rights barrister operating internationally for decades and he would have been fully aware that China had huge ambitions in the Indian Ocean. In [----] Starmer even discussed giving Chagos to Mauritius with prime minister Navid Ramgoolam the same man he agreed the current deal with in [----] straight after he entered Downing Street. Here is the Chagos time line. [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2019445770156449842) 2026-02-05T16:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Here is the Chagos time line. [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. [----] Starmer becomes Labour Party" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2019450761604702218) 2026-02-05T16:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "It was no secret that giving Mauritius the 58-odd Chagos islands would result in some of them falling into China's hands. Sir Keir Starmer was a leading human-rights barrister operating internationally for decades and he would have been fully aware that China had huge ambitions in the Indian Ocean. In [----] Starmer even discussed giving Chagos to Mauritius with prime minister Navid Ramgoolam the same man he agreed the current deal with in [----] straight after he entered Downing Street. Here is the Chagos time line. [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2019461348875542747) 2026-02-05T17:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Hurrah But we must still keep up the pressure to scrap the deal. It was no secret that giving Mauritius the 58-odd Chagos islands would result in some of them falling into China's hands. Sir Keir Starmer was a leading human-rights barrister operating internationally for decades and he would have been fully aware that China had huge ambitions in the Indian Ocean. In [----] before he was even an PM Starmer discussed giving Chagos to Mauritius with prime minister Navid Ramgoolam the same man he agreed the current deal with in [----] straight after he entered Downing Street." [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2019465999620141364) 2026-02-05T17:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The Chagos Files - The time line [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. [----] Starmer becomes Labour Party" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2019472040705643006) 2026-02-05T18:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Starmer's treacherous Chagos deal is for [--] years. Every year the UK has promised to pay [---] million (potentially much higher with inflation) to Mauritius to lease one of the [--] islands in the Archipelago namely Diego Garcia. If the UK doesn't follow the deal to the letter there are huge financial penalties. Why [--] years Who knows what the world will be like in [--] months never mind in a century's time Will Diego Garcia even be needed in [--] or [--] years time https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019529682832572691 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019529682832572691" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2019529682832572691) 2026-02-05T21:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "From every angle the Chagos deal looks 🤯mad and 😡bad except one. The China angle. China has a close relationship with Mauritius and Beijing has made no secret of the fact it is delighted with the deal. Mauritius has a population of just over one and a quarter million people. China knows everything that happens in Mauritius and can persuade the government to do whatever it wants. Giving the strategically vital Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius a country known for its corruption at the highest level and for being an international money-laundering hub is the equivalent to giving it to China. It" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2019764966828503281) 2026-02-06T13:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Labour sent a team to America to campaign for Kamala Harris but Donald Trump ran out a clear winner on November 4th. [--] days later Sir Keir Starmer appointed Jonathan Powell of "Dodgy Dossier" fame as his National Secutity Advisor. A month later Starmer ignores warnings to pick Peter Mandelson as his new US Ambassador. Mandelson took up his duties in America in February [----]. Starmer knew he was taking a massive risk by appointing the Mandelson as US ambassador and was also fully aware of Powell's controversial history during his time as Chief Of Staff for Tony Blair. For some reason Starmer" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2019768739483283814) 2026-02-06T13:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "the Chagos time line. [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. [----] Starmer becomes Labour Party leader. 2021" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2019817774755795370) 2026-02-06T16:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "There's some confusion Sands' transcript reads "I was counsel for Mauritius from [----] to 2014." I heard "I was counsel for Mauritius from [----] to 2024." And he talked about working with the UK government on the deal which was agreed by Starmer during the final months of [----]. Sands claimed he was there in a private capacity. But of course he could be rehired at any moment by Mauritius and it may suit his purposes to not be officially on the payroll at present. Sands was granted Mauritius citizenship in [----]. In a [----] interview with Emily Maitlis Sands gave every indication that he was still" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2019836472015352033) 2026-02-06T18:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The Chagos Islands and oil. Sir Keir Starmer's treacherous Chagos deal gives Mauritius full ownership rights of any minerals and oil found in the sub-sea of the territorial waters surrounding the islands. During his briefings about Chagos Jonathan "dodgy dossier" Powell made great play about how many of the islands where small and some little more than sand banks. Well once you add in their territorial waters which extend out [--] kilometers even the smallest of the islands contains a significant area of sub-sea real-estate. No doubt Mauritius will tender for geological surveys in the" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2020068820044460450) 2026-02-07T09:35Z [----] followers, 10.4K engagements "Labour wanted Kamala Harris to win the [----] US Election and even sent a team to America to campaign for her. But Donald Trump ran out a clear winner on November 4th. [--] days later Sir Keir Starmer appointed Jonathan Powell of "Dodgy Dossier" fame as his National Secutity Advisor. In December Starmer ignored many warnings to pick Peter Mandelson a friend of Jeffrey Epstein as his US Ambassador. Mandelson took up his duties in America in February [----]. Starmer's not thick he knew he was taking a big risk by appointing the twice-disgraced Mandelson as US ambassador and he was also fully aware of" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2020091219741659558) 2026-02-07T11:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Mauritius gets full ownership rights to any oil natural resources including hydrocarbons in the territorial waters and broader maritime zones of the Chagos Archipelago under Starmer's Chagos deal. When you add in the billions the UK has pledged to pay for the [--] year lease on Diego Garcia which may not be needed after a few years there's a very high probability the UK will paying billions to rent an island that doesn't have a military base on it for [--] or more years. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020125817343291875 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020125817343291875" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2020125817343291875) 2026-02-07T13:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Mauritius gets full ownership rights to any oil natural resources including hydrocarbons in the territorial waters and broader maritime zones of the Chagos Archipelago under Starmer's Chagos deal" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2020129205443260650) 2026-02-07T13:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@ShazzerMac3 Mauritius gets full ownership rights to any oil natural resources including hydrocarbons in the territorial waters and broader maritime zones of the Chagos Archipelago under Starmer's Chagos deal" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2020131267786707054) 2026-02-07T13:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Think you may have missed the point Mick. My general themes have been the various players in Philippe Sands' project Chagos team and why is giving the islands to Mauritius such an imperative for Keir Starmer. This latest post is about the Archipelago's territorial waters and marine protection zone and Mauritius gaining full ownership of all sub-sea mineral rights in Starmer's deal and the potential consequences of that in the future. China can spy as much as it likes right now from space via submarines and spy balloons etc. Trump has said as plainly as he could don't mess with Diego Garcia." [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2020147176496632110) 2026-02-07T14:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Shamefully the Tories flirted with a Chagos deal under pressure from lawyers like Philippe Sands the counsel for Mauritius since [----] who argued and leveraged the ICJ advisory opinion and sympathetic civil servants such as Vijay Rangarajan. The deal was made by the Keir Starmer led Labour government with Mauritius prime ministers Jugnauth and Ramgoolam. There were new clauses and conditions added in the months of discussions after the GE and Mauritius made several new demands and also repeatedly put up the price of the lease on Diego Garcia. The stupid Tories who were an utter shambles" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2020154299829850175) 2026-02-07T15:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Neither Queen Elizabeth nor King Charles (2025) ever mentioned Chagos in their speeches to Parliament. So where is the explicit Royal consent Chagos is SOVEREIGN British Territory. A prime minister or Foreign Secretary may have the powers to sign a treaty but surely no politician has the right to decide for themselves to give away British territory Can Starmer wake up tomorrow and sign a treaty to give away the Falklands just because he feels like it https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020160472473801111 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020160472473801111" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2020160472473801111) 2026-02-07T15:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Project Chagos has been active for over [--] years. Here's the time line. [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2020216585902805061) 2026-02-07T19:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "If as he should Keir Starmer resigns his replacement will be a lame-duck PM and they will have to call an general election to earn a renewed legitimate mandate. That's how democracy should work. When the governing party no longer commands the support of the public it should call an election and win a new mandate or hand over power to the party that wins the public's backing at the new election. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020234056361754729 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020234056361754729" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2020234056361754729) 2026-02-07T20:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Pravind Jugnauth who was Mauritius prime minister and involved in the negotiations with Starmer's government before Ramgoolam took over in November [----] after he was elected PM again was himself arrested and charged with money-laundering in February [----]. That's the last two Mauritius PMs whom Starmer made the Chagos deal with both arrested on money-laundering charges. An update on the antics of the Mauritian PM and Chagos Island fraud co-conspirator Navin Ramgoolam. What the police found while searching his property Is Navin Ramgoolam a man we can trust https://t.co/XMIxwL9XbN An update on" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2020435907627663723) 2026-02-08T09:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@DrChrisParry @UKLabour Here's a previous "invasion" of Chagos by Starmer's close friend Philippe Sands KC. https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/2013556086008054038s=20 The video is believed to be from [----] as @Keir_Starmer's friend & confidant Phillipe Sands KC raising the Mauritius flag on the Chagos Islands in [----]. He was a paid agent of the Mauritius government. https://t.co/vKYWKsONL6 https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/2013556086008054038s=20 The video is believed to be from [----] as @Keir_Starmer's friend & confidant Phillipe Sands KC raising the Mauritius flag on the Chagos Islands in" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2020451775614992705) 2026-02-08T10:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@DrChrisParry @UKLabour The Royal Air Force had a base on the Madives' island of Gan. From [----] until [----] when the then Labour government shut it to save money" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2020452929988165924) 2026-02-08T11:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@babita_mitchell The reports are that former prime minister Jugnauth and his wife were both arrested in February last year and they are currently on bail awaiting further court proceedings. There where [--] addresses in the original raids and several arrests" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2020557437124706630) 2026-02-08T17:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The base on Diego Garcia may not be needed in the future. Who's to know what groundbreaking technological changes and geopolitical realignments there will be in the next [--] years. So WHY has Starmer agreed a [--] YEAR lease with Mauritius that has severe penalty clauses if the UK fails to honour it to the letter The UK could be paying billions to lease a small tropical with no military presence at all on it for [--] years or more. Then there's The Maldives. who could lease one of their thousand plus islands in the same region to the US to use as a base. The RAF had a base on the Maldives island of" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2020586556226957390) 2026-02-08T19:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Is Starmer's Chagos deal the worst deal ever Did Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer even consider the possibility the joint UK/US air-force and naval base on Diego Garcia may not be needed in the future Was there no thought about the possible technological changes and geopolitical realignments that could happen in the next [--] years to [--] years Why did Starmer rush to agree a [--] YEAR LEASE with Mauritius that has severe penalty clauses for the UK if it fails to honour the lease to the letter as soon as he could after becoming PM Did Starmer not realise the UK could be signing up to pay billions to" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2020596686264132047) 2026-02-08T20:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The [--] year lease is for only Diego Garcia. Mauritius can lease any of the other [--] islands to whoever the want to including China. Mauritius also gets full ownership rights to any oil natural resources including hydrocarbons in the territorial waters and broader maritime zones of the Chagos Archipelago. The Americans could close their base on Diego Garcia in [--] or [--] years time or any other time and the UK will still be paying to rent the island for the rest of the [--] years. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020810158016725161 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020810158016725161" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2020810158016725161) 2026-02-09T10:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Jonathan Powell was "selling" Starmer's Chagos deal hard back in [----] before Peter Mandelson was appointed US Ambassador. In an interview in October [----] Powell said "These are very tiny islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean where no one actually goes. So we shouldn't be worried about losing that little bit of territory. We are probably losing more to tidal erosion on the east coast than that." Powell leaves out the facts there are more than [--] islands and the Chagos Marine Protected Area is [------] square kilometers which is about the size of France. Even more tellingly Powell omits to" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2020841518043394398) 2026-02-09T12:45Z [----] followers, 23.1K engagements "The Maldives have over a thousands islands in the same region of the Indian Ocean. One of them was home to RAF Ganwhich was closed in [----] to save money by the cash-strapped Labour Government. The RAF relocated to rent-free Diego Garcia in the BOT of Chagos. There's a civilian airport and resort now on Gan. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020897267121578207 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020897267121578207" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2020897267121578207) 2026-02-09T16:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "There are alternatives to Diego Garcia. The Maldives have over a thousands islands in the same region of the Indian Ocean. One of them was home to RAF Gan which was closed in [----] to save money by the cash-strapped Labour Government. The RAF relocated to rent-free Diego Garcia in the BOT of Chagos. There's a civilian airport and resort now on Gan. Shamefully the Tories flirted with a Chagos deal under pressure from lawyers like Philippe Sands the counsel for Mauritius since [----] who argued and leveraged the ICJ advisory opinion and sympathetic civil servants such as Vijay Rangarajan. However" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2020898685299646666) 2026-02-09T16:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Do you support Keir Starmer's Chagos deal Ms Rayner Is it not the worst deal ever Wouldn't 35billion be better spent on helping poor communities Did Prime Minister Starmer even consider the possibility the joint UK/US air-force and naval base on Diego Garcia may not be needed in the future Was there no thought about the possible technological changes and geopolitical realignments that could happen in the next [--] years to [--] years Why did Starmer rush to agree a [--] YEAR LEASE with Mauritius that has severe penalty clauses for the UK if it fails to honour the lease to the letter as soon as he" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2020906348414648733) 2026-02-09T17:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The British prime minister should act in the best interests of Britain. The Chagos deal is not in Britain's best interests. So whose interests is it in Philippe Sands was hired by Mauritius in [----] to get them Chagos. Starmer was in Mauritius in [----] discussing giving Chagos away with prime minister Ramgoolam. In [----] Sands managed to obtain the ICJ advisory ruling that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. That "engineered" legal manoeuvre provided the leverage Sands and his team needed to justify a deal being made. Sands with the help of the sympathetic Civil Servant Vijay" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2020926490695831853) 2026-02-09T18:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Jonathan Powell was "selling" Starmer's Chagos deal hard back in [----] before Peter Mandelson was appointed US Ambassador. In an interview in October [----] Powell said "These are very tiny islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean where no one actually goes. So we shouldn't be worried about losing that little bit of territory. We are probably losing more to tidal erosion on the east coast than that." Powell leaves out the facts there are more than [--] islands and the Chagos Marine Protected Area is [------] square kilometers which is about the size of France. Even more tellingly Powell omits to" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2020931155424419964) 2026-02-09T18:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Starmer's Chagos deal is the worst deal. Did Prime Minister Starmer even consider the possibility the joint UK/US air-force and naval base on Diego Garcia may not be needed in the future Was there no thought about the possible technological changes and geopolitical realignments that could happen in the next [--] years to [--] years Why did Starmer rush to agree a [--] YEAR LEASE with Mauritius that has severe penalty clauses for the UK if it fails to honour the lease to the letter as soon as he could after becoming PM Did Starmer not realise the UK could be signing up to pay billions to lease a" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2020932586395382021) 2026-02-09T18:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@BenedictSpence Who knows what damaging revelations or stories may break over the prime minister in the coming weeks All these cabinet and Labour MP endorsements could backfire spectacularly" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2020944626908266866) 2026-02-09T19:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@MarkHal87606381 @JamesCleverly This is not the 3rd time I sent you this. I have replied to previous comments by you but I spent [--] minutes or more writing this individual considered response to your question Mark. I went out of my way to reply to you as constructively as I could" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2020960519788822707) 2026-02-09T20:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@JuliaHB1 Won't all the cabinet members and Labour MPs who tied themselves to Keir Starmer today fall with the Prime Minister if he goes down Have none of them looked down the road at what's coming" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2020980794257551556) 2026-02-09T21:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "As I said the hapless Tories were a shambles and under pressure from Philippe Sands using his ICJ advisory ruling as leverage and sympathetic senior civil servant Vijay Rangarajan. Cleverly did most of the negotiations when he was at the FO but Cameron kicked it into the long grass when he took over. Sands had been working on Chagos officially since [----]. There's been a huge effort put into this project. Starmer himself has been an advocate for it since at least [----] when he was in Mauritius discussing the handover of the Chagos islands with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam who was arrested on" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2021127951572410713) 2026-02-10T07:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The China angle. China has a close relationship with Mauritius which has major debts with China and Beijing has made no secret of the fact it is delighted with the deal. Mauritius has a population of just over one and a quarter million people. China knows everything that happens in Mauritius and can "persuade" the government to do whatever it wants. Giving the strategically vital Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius a country known for its corruption at the highest level and for being an international money-laundering hub is the equivalent to giving it to China. It endangers Western security by" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2021131152287809959) 2026-02-10T07:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "I have frequently posted about the Tories role in this farrago. Here are a couple of recent examples. Shamefully the Tories flirted with a Chagos deal under pressure from lawyers like Philippe Sands the counsel for Mauritius since [----] who argued and leveraged the ICJ advisory opinion and sympathetic civil servants such as Vijay Rangarajan. The deal was made by the Keir Starmer led Labour government with Mauritius prime ministers Jugnauth and Ramgoolam. There were new clauses and conditions added in the months of discussions after the GE and Mauritius made several new demands and also" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2021133398614430168) 2026-02-10T08:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The timed releases one after the other of cabinet members backing the PM shows this act of "unity" was fully orchestrated. The cabinet have shackled themselves to Starmer when the potential for more massive scandals are just down the road. Mandelson's emails and Ukrainian male-models two name just two. The theory for the cabinet falling into line is Starmer threatening to call a general election. But could it actually be a double bluff Could Starmer have actually promised to call a general election in the very near future either way and convinced them it would be suicidal for a member of the" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2021149551202087053) 2026-02-10T09:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "I remember some cliffs being safeguarded from tidal erosion at West Kirby on the Dee estuary with huge boulders and rocks back around [----] so that a housing estate could be built on the land next to the cliffs. I remember paleontologists scouring the rocks for fossils and even seeing some small fossils in the rocks myself. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021190269220147354 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021190269220147354" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2021190269220147354) 2026-02-10T11:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Jonathan Powell was "selling" Starmer's Chagos deal hard back in [----] before Peter Mandelson was appointed US Ambassador. In an interview in October [----] Powell said "These are very tiny islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean where no one actually goes. So we shouldn't be worried about losing that little bit of territory. We are probably losing more to tidal erosion on the east coast than that." Powell leaves out the facts there are more than [--] islands and the Chagos Marine Protected Area is [------] square kilometers which is about the size of France. Even more tellingly Powell omits to" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2021234488550760501) 2026-02-10T14:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "When Starmer moved into Number [--] in July [----] Pravind Jugnauth was prime minister of Mauritius and the deal was agreed in principal before former prime minster Navin Ramgoolam who Starmer had discussed the Chagos islands been given to Mauritius in [----] was reelected prime minister in a snap election in November [----]. Jugnauth was arrested in February [----] on money-laundering charges. Ramgoolam was arrested on similar charges in [----] after he had also lost an election the previous year. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021298383864926369 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021298383864926369" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2021298383864926369) 2026-02-10T19:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "I have frequently posted about the Tories role in this farrago. Here are a couple of recent examples. Shamefully the Tories flirted with a Chagos deal under pressure from lawyers like Philippe Sands the counsel for Mauritius since [----] who argued and leveraged the ICJ advisory opinion and sympathetic civil servants such as Vijay Rangarajan. The deal was made by the Keir Starmer led Labour government with Mauritius prime ministers Jugnauth and Ramgoolam. There were new clauses and conditions added in the months of discussions after the GE and Mauritius made several new demands and also" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2021306665006465333) 2026-02-10T19:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "I have frequently posted about the Tories role in this farrago. Here are a couple of recent examples. Shamefully the Tories flirted with a Chagos deal under pressure from lawyers like Philippe Sands the counsel for Mauritius since [----] who argued and leveraged the ICJ advisory opinion and sympathetic civil servants such as Vijay Rangarajan. The deal was made by the Keir Starmer led Labour government with Mauritius prime ministers Jugnauth and Ramgoolam. There were new clauses and conditions added in the months of discussions after the GE and Mauritius made several new demands and also" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2021306823689621820) 2026-02-10T19:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Please sign the petition if you can and ask your family and friends to sign it too. If the petition's final number is small the government will take that as a signal that the country doesn't care about Chagos and they will force the bill through. Starmer Sands Mandeson Powell Hermer & co will end up grinning like very fat Cheshire Cats. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021478549337640962 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021478549337640962" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2021478549337640962) 2026-02-11T06:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "For a country with a population of only one and quarter million the lease money alone is enormous but it could be dwarfed by the income from the mining rights options exploration licenses the businesses and the people it will attract to Mauritius and all the legal work it will involve never mind any minerals that may eventually be extracted. The potential is there for a literal gold rush. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021504419276193888 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021504419276193888" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2021504419276193888) 2026-02-11T08:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The UK has investigated a number of ways to resettle Chagossians particularly on the outer islands in the Chagos Atolls. The agreement with Mauritius allows for resettling on islands other than Diego Garcia. Whether Mauritius would fully honour the agreement after they take control is another matter. When the Americans moved onto DG they didn't ask for the people living there to be removed. It was a British decision to clear everyone off the island. If you read the full article you will see the point of it is that the deal is really about money and mining the sea bed." [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2021550956664557988) 2026-02-11T11:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "From the Treaty ARTICLE [--] [--]. In consideration of this Agreement the United Kingdom agrees: a. to pay Mauritius an annual sum; ARTICLE [--] Duration [--]. This Agreement shall have a duration of ninety-nine (99) years from the entry into force of this Agreement (Initial Period). ARTICLE [--] Settlement of Disputes Basically states the parties will try to settle any disputes with consultations and arbitration. Non payment and termination are not mentioned. ARTICLE [--] [--]. Mauritius may terminate this Agreement only if one of the following grounds for termination of this Agreement exists: a failure by" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2021639025690308956) 2026-02-11T17:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Navin Ramgoolam was arrested in [----] on money-laundering an conspiracy charges after suitcases and a safe stuffed with millions of dollars in foreign currencies boxes of Cartier and Rolex watches and blank British visa were found in his home. Navin Ramgoolam wasn't prime minister at the time of his arrest but he was when he met with Keir Starmer in Mauritius in [----] to discuss the future of the Chagos Archipelago. Navin Ramgoolam was reelected prime minister in November [----] and replaced Pravind Jugnauth for the latter rounds of negotiations of Starmer's Chagos Deal. In February [----] Pravind" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2021646035185996267) 2026-02-11T18:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "What is Starmer's Chagos Deal really about Decolonization The vast majority of Chagossian people want to remain British. Decolonization was a legal tool/tactic used to force the UK to give Chagos to Mauritius which is what Philippe Sands KC was hired to do in [----]. There is no reason why the UK couldn't resettle the Chagossians on the islands. It's even possible for some of them to be employed on Diego Garcia. The Chagossian people have been horribly treated. To ignore their wishes only exacerbates that long injustice. Diego Garcia The deal is supposed to protect the US military base on Diego" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2021674288030326811) 2026-02-11T19:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Given Jeffrey Epstein's worldwide business interests it's no surprise to learn the latest batch of Epstein Files contains multiple references to Mauritius including mentions of Mauritius-registered companies a fund management firm local contact numbers and notes indicating visits to the island. Mauritius has many 5-star resorts where Epstein could have stayed such as Shangri-La Le Touessrok part-owned by Malaysia's richest man the [---] years-old Robert Kuock who has many business interests in China. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021925387773628504" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2021925387773628504) 2026-02-12T12:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Dreaming of Chagos riches. At just [----] square kilometers Mauritius is just half the size of Dubai. Its population of just over one million and a quarter is only a third of Dubai's. However Mauritius has a longer coast line at [---] kilometers well over twice that of the Arab Emirate's beach front and the country's footprint is set to explode when it takes over the Chagos Archipelago's [--] islands and Marine Protected Area of [------] square. Mauritius is also gearing up for massive economic growth. An already competitive tax regime for international business could become even more attractive with" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2021973482637041992) 2026-02-12T15:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Navin Ramgoolam was arrested in [----] on money-laundering and conspiracy charges after suitcases stuffed with millions of dollars in foreign currencies boxes of Cartier and Rolex watches and blank British visa were found in his home. Navin Ramgoolam wasn't prime minister at the time of his arrest but he was when he met with Keir Starmer who was not an MP at time in Mauritius in [----] to discuss the future of the Chagos Archipelago. Navin Ramgoolam was reelected prime minister in November [----] and replaced Pravind Jugnauth who was the prime minister of Mauritius when Starmer became the UK's PM" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2022049606545145883) 2026-02-12T20:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements ""It was the Tories" is the standard reply. However Project Chagos began officially back in [----] when Keir Starmer's "great mate" Philippe Sands KC was appointed counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. [--] years later Starmer was talking to Navin Ramgoolam about the UK giving Mauritius the Chagos Archipelago. Those are documented facts. I have frequently posted about the Tories role in this farrago. Here are a couple of recent examples. Shamefully the Tories flirted with a Chagos deal under pressure from lawyers like Philippe Sands the counsel for Mauritius since [----] who argued and leveraged the ICJ" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2022232824871256369) 2026-02-13T08:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Here is the Chagos time line. [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. [----] Starmer becomes Labour Party" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2022237960960188680) 2026-02-13T09:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "No one ever claimed Starmer was there in an official capacity. However he was not on holiday. He was invited to a conference and for discussions with prime minister Ramgoolam who had appointed his good friend Philippe Sands as counsel for Chagos [--] years earlier. Starmer was not DDP at the time of of his visit. He stayed in a 5-star resort and he was not accompanied by his family. After their meetings Ramgoolam wrote that he and Starmer were aligned over the future of Chagos. This episode confirms that in [----] Starmer was in favour of what his close friend Philippe Sands had been employed for" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2022249222129520892) 2026-02-13T09:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "What is the Chagos Deal really about Decolonization The vast majority of Chagossian people want to remain British. Decolonization was a legal tool/tactic used to force the UK to give Chagos to Mauritius which is what Philippe Sands KC was hired to do in [----]. There is no reason why the UK couldn't resettle the Chagossians on the islands. It would be very costly but less than the 35billion for the 99-year lease on Diego Garcia. It's even possible for some Chagossians to be employed on Diego Garcia. The Chagossian people have been horribly treated. To ignore their wishes only exacerbates that" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2022358881712709740) 2026-02-13T17:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "@Artemisfornow This letter reveals Starmer's lack of imagination and total disregard for the impact immigration has on the British people. Family reunion may sound compassionate but it opens the door for an endless number of people to move to the UK" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/1953470369685270869) 2025-08-07T14:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@NicholasLissack @Keir_Starmer How many voters knew Labour intended to give away the Chagos Islands and spend billions renting one back The Tories started the process and deserve equal blame. UK politicians gave away sovereign terrority without the public's consent. They are traitors" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/1954657723624092098) 2025-08-10T21:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@ABridgen Starmer also appears to be trying hard to derail Trump's efforts to broker a peace deal in Ukraine. Is their any doubt Surkeir is a Manchurian Candidate prime minister" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/1954956005437018584) 2025-08-11T17:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The police have lost the trust of the public. The first they do if you report a crime is to ask you for name and personal details. Immediately you feel like the criminal. They will probably try to filter out your report with some excuse for it not being important. Even if they take down your report you know the chanceon anyone being caught and prosecuted is slim to say the best. Data from The Telegraph has revealed that police forces across the country failed to solve a single burglary in 48% of neighbourhoods in the past three years" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/1954961228041769021) 2025-08-11T17:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Fires in the countryside used to be called Forest fires or bushfires but in the last few years the term "wildfires" has been used by nearly all media. Most fires are started by humans; they are not "wild". However the term "wildfires" implies they are naturally occurring or caused by climate change. They don't want the public to know that the majority of the fires are arson. One person can start scores of fires in a couple of hours. Some justify starting fires by claiming it will make people take climate change more seriously. A more accurate term for most of the so-called "wildfires" would" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/1958059296232497663) 2025-08-20T06:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@ABridgen @UKLabour Starmer is a Davos man. His career is one long CV of destroying Judeo-Christian heritage. From forcing the UK government to give welfare to illegal immigrants to sparing murderers the death penalty to starting a war with Russia his hatred of the West is there for all to see" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/1959712404826370433) 2025-08-24T20:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "From every angle the Chagos deal looks 🤯mad and 😡bad except one. The China angle. China has a close relationship with Mauritius and Beijing has made no secret of the fact it is delighted with the deal. Mauritius has a population of just over one and a quarter million people. China knows everything that happens in Mauritius and can persuade the government to do whatever it wants. Giving the strategically vital Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius a country known for its corruption at the highest level and for being an international money-laundering hub is the equivalent of giving it to China. It" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2019725856323576265) 2026-02-06T10:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Labour wanted Kamala Harris to win the [----] US Election and even sent a team to America to campaign for her. But Donald Trump ran out a clear winner on November 4th. [--] days later Sir Keir Starmer appointed Jonathan Powell of "Dodgy Dossier" fame as his National Secutity Advisor. In December Starmer ignored many warnings to pick Peter Mandelson a friend of Jeffrey Epstein as his US Ambassador. Mandelson took up his duties in America in February [----]. Starmer's not thick he knew he was taking a big risk by appointing the twice-disgraced Mandelson as US ambassador and he was also fully aware of" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2019730548885746058) 2026-02-06T11:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The Chagos Files - The time line [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. [----] Starmer becomes Labour Party" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2019734788387553387) 2026-02-06T11:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The deal gives Mauritius full ownership rights of any minerals (i.e. oil) found in the sub-sea of the territorial waters surrounding the islands. Which as they extend out [--] kilometers means even the smallest of the island contains a significant area of sub-sea. No doubt Mauritius will tender for geological surveys in the Archipelago to see if there is extractable oil and gas etc. in the territorial waters. Oil has been found in the Andaman Sea which is a long way away from Chagos but it's part of the Indian Ocean. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020057047610363938" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2020057047610363938) 2026-02-07T08:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Technolgies evolve Jill. The Chagos Archipelago's marine protection zone is the size of France and as @OilPaul wrote in an earlier reply to my post "There are Manganese nodules. Guess who is experimenting in recovering those from deep water" Mauritius gets full ownership rights to any oil natural resources including hydrocarbons in the territorial waters and broader maritime zones of the Chagos Archipelago under Starmer's Chagos deal. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020139028008382939 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020139028008382939" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2020139028008382939) 2026-02-07T14:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Pravind Jugnauth who was Mauritius prime minister when Labour won power in [----] was involved in the negotiations with Starmer's government before Ramgoolam took over in November [----] after he was relected as Mauritius PM was himself arrested and charged with money-laundering in February [----]. So Starmer made the Chagos deal with two men who have both been arrested on money-laundering charges. In each case huge amounts of cash and luxury watches were found in their homes. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020436847046873195 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020436847046873195" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2020436847046873195) 2026-02-08T09:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@PhilBentley20 @chell_rosey This video covers the Chagossian people being removed from the islands. It's also well worth watching for the bigger picture. https://youtu.be/LKs6nCQtt1Asi=DW5AVGuSXkdCCJsb https://youtu.be/LKs6nCQtt1Asi=DW5AVGuSXkdCCJsb" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2020555720836403337) 2026-02-08T17:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Shamefully the Tories flirted with a Chagos deal under pressure from lawyers like Philippe Sands the counsel for Mauritius since [----] who argued and leveraged the ICJ advisory opinion and sympathetic civil servants such as Vijay Rangarajan. The deal was made by the Keir Starmer led Labour government with Mauritius prime ministers Jugnauth and Ramgoolam. There were new clauses and conditions added in the months of discussions after the GE and Mauritius made several new demands and also repeatedly put up the price of the lease on Diego Garcia. The stupid Tories who were an utter shambles" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2020894127286616417) 2026-02-09T16:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The China angle. Mauritius has borrowed a lot of money from China and Beijing made no secret of the fact it was delighted with the Chagos deal. Mauritius has a population of just over one and a quarter million people. China knows everything that happens in Mauritius and can persuade the government to do whatever it wants. Giving the strategically vital Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius a country known for its corruption at the highest level and for being an international money-laundering hub is the equivalent to giving it to China. It endangers Western security by comprising the future of the" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2020900176953532651) 2026-02-09T16:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The Chagos time line. [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. [----] Starmer becomes Labour Party leader. 2021" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2020940768894926959) 2026-02-09T19:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "the Chagos time line. [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. [----] Starmer becomes Labour Party leader. 2021" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2020941618455449916) 2026-02-09T19:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Starmer made Powell his NSA just [--] days after Trump won the [----] US election in November. As you know he was already working for Starmer and was briefing for the Chagos deal in October but making him NSA enabled Powell to be deployed to Washington DC to brief the Americans. Biden was readily persuaded the deal was OK but there was a new sheriff coming to town and the deal wasn't finalized yet. Starmer's rush to make the deal as quickly as he could was probably influenced by the prospect of a Trump precedency. Trump becoming POTUS may have also had something to do with Hermer recusing himself" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2021176889981718994) 2026-02-10T10:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "What is the Chagos Deal really about Decolonization The vast majority of Chagossian people want to remain British. Decolonization was a legal tool/tactic used to force the UK to give Chagos to Mauritius which is what Philippe Sands KC was hired to do in [----]. There is no reason why the UK couldn't resettle the Chagossians on the islands. It's even possible for some of them to be employed on Diego Garcia. The Chagossian people have been horribly treated. To give control of their homeland to Mauritius against their wishes only exacerbates that long injustice. Diego Garcia Is the deal to protect" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2021226036474581427) 2026-02-10T14:13Z [----] followers, 11.1K engagements "What is the Chagos Deal really about Decolonization The vast majority of Chagossian people want to remain British. Decolonization was a legal tool/tactic used to force the UK to give Chagos to Mauritius which is what Philippe Sands KC was hired to do in [----]. There is no reason why the UK couldn't resettle the Chagossians on the islands. It's even possible for some of them to be employed on Diego Garcia. The Chagossian people have been horribly treated. To ignore their wishes only exacerbates that long injustice. Diego Garcia The deal is supposed to protect the US military base on Diego" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2021650686866272581) 2026-02-11T18:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "This is the InterContinental 5-star Resort in Balaclava on the north-west coast of Mauritius where Keir Starmer stayed in [----] when he discussed the future of the Chagos Archipelago with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2021936347528016242) 2026-02-12T13:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Dreaming of Chagos riches. At [----] square kilometers Mauritius is just half the size of Dubai. Its population of just over one million and a quarter is only a third of Dubai's. However Mauritius has a longer coast line at [---] kilometers well over twice that of the Arab Emirate's beach front and the country's footprint is set to explode when it takes over the Chagos Archipelago's [--] islands and Marine Protected Area of [------] square. Mauritius is also gearing up for massive economic growth. An already competitive tax regime for international business could become even more attractive with" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2021978325044883850) 2026-02-12T16:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Jonathan Powell was "selling" Starmer's Chagos deal hard back in [----] before Peter Mandelson was appointed US Ambassador. In an interview in October [----] Powell said "These are very tiny islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean where no one actually goes. So we shouldn't be worried about losing that little bit of territory. We are probably losing more to tidal erosion on the east coast than that." Powell leaves out the facts there are more than [--] islands and the Chagos Marine Protected Area is [------] square kilometers which is about the size of France. Even more tellingly Powell omits to" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2022289287258018005) 2026-02-13T12:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@ey_eball Only [--] months actually. Labour were elected on July 24th [----] and on the 3rd of October despite no mention of it in the manifesto or by Starmer during the election campaign Number [--] announced an agreement in principal had been made to give Chagos to Mauritius" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2022755075039400328) 2026-02-14T19:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@ey_eball Since [----] at least when he was in Mauritius before he was an MP discussing with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam the UK giving his country the Chagos Archipelago" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2022760014885060935) 2026-02-14T19:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The current Mauritius prime minister Navin Ramgoolam who was reelected to the office in November [----] was arrested in [----] on money-laundering and conspiracy charges after suitcases stuffed with millions of dollars in foreign currencies boxes of luxury watches and blank British visas were found in his home. Navin Ramgoolam wasn't prime minister at the time of his arrest but he was when he met with Keir Starmer who was not yet an MP in Mauritius in [----] to discuss the future of the Chagos Archipelago. After their discussions in [----] Ramgoolam wrote that he and Starmer were aligned over the" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2022708325394071756) 2026-02-14T16:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The Chagos Deal is about money. The millions in lawyer fees paid to Philippe Sands and his team and spent on court cases over the [--] years Project Chagos has been running will reap a massive dividend when the billions for the UK's 99-year lease of Diego Garcia start flowing into the coffers of Mauritius. The island of Mauritius which is [--] percent smaller than Luxembourg in size lies [---] miles east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean and it's [----] miles south west of the Chagos Archipelago. For Mauritius to hire a top KC like Sands to help them acquire the Chagos Islands which apart from Diego" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2023313253397315750) 2026-02-16T08:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The China angle. The deal endangers Western security by comprising the future of the air and sea base on Diego Garcia America's most important asset in that part of the world. It aids China's military ambitions in the Indian Ocean massively. It ensures the destruction of the Chagos Islands' precious unspoiled ecosystems. Mauritius is already talking to other countries about fishing rights leasing islands and is even drawing up frameworks for deep-sea mining in the potentially mineral-rich Chagos marine protection zone. The deal gives Mauritius full ownership of all minerals found on the" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2023438138605969697) 2026-02-16T16:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "On October 3rd just over [--] weeks after Labour won the [----] General Election Downing street announced the UK had agreed a deal to give Mauritius the Chagos Archipelago even though Keir Starmer had never mentioned Chagos during the campaign and it wasn't in Labour's manifesto. Why the secrecy Why the rush Starmer close friend Philippe Sands had been counsel for Mauritius since [----] and had been working hard to acquire Chagos for his employer. In [----] before he was an MP Keir Starmer had visited Mauritius and discussed Chagos with prime minister Ramgoolam who wrote afterward they were aligned" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2023149495505015169) 2026-02-15T21:36Z [----] followers, 14.2K engagements "@DrChrisParry Starmer is a Sinclair C5 pedal to the metal in the center-lane of the M1 heading north at 2am on a bank holiday" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2023155523491885512) 2026-02-15T22:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "As a geologist you will probably know far more and far better than I. However my research found that subsea surveys of the waters of Agalga undertaken in [----] to [----] showed the presence of gigantic oil and gas reserves. The Mozambique channel which stretches up to Agalga is believed to contain 80% of the world's proven oil reserves and 17% of its proven natural gas reserves. The island of Agalga which lies [---] miles north of Mauritius and [----] south west of the Chagos Archipelago remained part of Mauritius after independence in [----]. Apparently the UK decided it wasn't worth making Agalga a" [X Link](https://x.com/tedkel/status/2023445892481577104) 2026-02-16T17:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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"Is the Chagos Deal really just about money The millions in lawyer fees paid to Philippe Sands and his team and spent on court cases over the [--] years Project Chagos has been running will reap a massive dividend when the billions for the UK's 99-year lease of Diego Garcia start flowing into the coffers of Mauritius. The island of Mauritius which is [--] percent smaller than Luxembourg in size lies [---] miles east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean and it's [----] miles south west of the Chagos Archipelago. For Mauritius to hire a top KC like Sands to help them acquire the Chagos Islands which apart"
X Link 2026-02-14T15:13Z [----] followers, 10.3K engagements
"Who paid for Keir Starmer's trip to Mauritius in [----] when he stayed in a 5-star resort while discussing the Chagos Islands being given to Mauritius with its prime minister Navin Ramgoolam Starmer wasn't even an MP in [----] but [--] years later as UK prime minister one of Starmer's first acts was to agree a deal to give Mauritius the Chagos Islands and billions of British taxpayers money. BTW Ramgoolam was arrested on money-laundering and conspiracy charges in [----] but he was back as Mauritius PM when Starmer agreed the current deal. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016254762103034006"
X Link 2026-01-27T20:59Z [----] followers, 21.9K engagements
"Nope. It was agreed and signed under Sir Keir Starmer's Labour government. Mauritius kept putting up the price after the General election and new clauses sections and commitments were added. Shamefully under pressure from the lawyers like Philippe Sands and encouraged by sympathetic civil servants such Vijay Rangarajan the Tories flirted with a deal. But they didn't do one. That was Labour led by a man who has been known to be a major player in Project Chagos since [----]. Project Chagos has been rolling for more than [--] years. Here is some back story. Starmer's "great mate" Philippe Sands KC"
X Link 2026-01-28T09:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Another slice of Chagos Pie. If they ever make a sequel to the [----] epic film "The Man Who Would Be King" the new version could be inspired by the adventures of Philippe Sands Keir Starmer and Richard Hermer in Mauritius and the Chagos Archipelago. The plot would revolve around the three lawyers who plan to build a "kingdom" for themselves on a string of unspoiled tropical islands across a vast swathe of the Indian Ocean. Scene [--]. (The opening) A young Philippe Sands in a barrister's wig and black robes is giving a theatrical speech about human rights to a jury at the Old Bailey in London."
X Link 2026-01-30T16:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Project Chagos has been rolling for more than [--] years. Here's the back story. Starmer's "great mate" Philippe Sands KC became counsel for Mauritius for Chagos in [----] the year the Conservatives returned to power in the UK after [--] years of the Blair/Brown New-Labour government. In [----] before he became an MP Keir Starmer was in Mauritius discussing and agreeing the future of the Chagos Archipelago with the Mauritius prime minister Navin Ramgoolam. Starmer stayed at a 5-star resort during his [----] visit and he was presented with a beautiful model sail ship by Ramgoolam who wrote after their"
X Link 2026-01-31T11:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Any Labour MP or civil servant still pushing the treacherous Chagos deal will like Sir Keir Lord Richard and Mauritius citizen Philippe forever more be known as traitors and environmental vandals. Chagos will be the Albatross they shot and it will hang rotting round their necks until they lie cold and silent in their burial plots. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017555297783484419 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017555297783484419"
X Link 2026-01-31T11:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Just stop the deal and out an end to it. My money is on Sands being behind this visit. Sands became a Mauritius citizen a couple of years ago and has been awarded the country's highest honour. He has positioned himself as the power behind the throne in Mauritius. Sands would be the obvious choice to draw up the treaties lease agreements and fishing rights contracts for the Chagos Archipelago that Mauritius has been discussing with other countries. Sands has made a lot of money directing project Chagos since he was appointed counsel for the islands by Mauritius in [----]. He may be in line for a"
X Link 2026-01-31T14:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The Chagos Files joining the dots [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. [----] Starmer becomes Labour Party"
X Link 2026-01-31T17:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Joining the dots [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. [----] Starmer becomes Labour Party leader. [----] Sands"
X Link 2026-01-31T17:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Project Chagos has been running for over [--] years. Here is the intriguing back story. Starmer's "great mate" Philippe Sands KC became counsel for Mauritius for Chagos in [----] the year the Conservatives returned to power in the UK after [--] years of the Blair/Brown New-Labour government. In [----] before he became an MP Keir Starmer was in Mauritius discussing and agreeing the future of the Chagos Archipelago with the Mauritius prime minister Navin Ramgoolam. Starmer stayed at a 5-star resort during his [----] visit and he was presented with a beautiful model sail ship by Ramgoolam who wrote after"
X Link 2026-02-01T10:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Starmer and Ramgoolam met back in [----] in Mauritius to discuss the future of the Chagos Islands. Project Chagos has been rolling for more than [--] years. Here the revealing back story. Starmer's "great mate" Philippe Sands KC became counsel for Mauritius for Chagos in [----] the year the Conservatives returned to power in the UK after [--] years of the Blair/Brown New-Labour government. In [----] before he became an MP Keir Starmer was in Mauritius discussing and agreeing the future of the Chagos Archipelago with the Mauritius prime minister Navin Ramgoolam. Starmer stayed at a 5-star resort during"
X Link 2026-02-01T14:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Another dot to add to the Chagos File. This story is from 28th February [----]. Mauritius former Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth was released on bail following his dramatic arrest on Saturday on money laundering charges. He had been detained along with three others after the anti-corruption agency said it had seized suitcases of cash and luxury watches in raids on [--] locations including Jugnauths home. The former prime ministers lawyer said he denied the charges against him. Jugnauths arrest came [---] days after his landslide defeat in elections with his successor Navin Ramgoolam vowing to root"
X Link 2026-02-01T14:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The Chagos Files joining the dots [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. [----] Starmer becomes Labour Party"
X Link 2026-02-01T15:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Prime Minister Starmer why is the UK making a multi-billion pound deal that has serious implications for western and national security and for the preservation of the Chagos Archipelago's precious marine protection zone with Mauritius when that country's current prime minister Navin Ramgoolam and the previous prime minister Pravind Jugnauth have both been arrested on money-laundering charges after huge amounts of foreign currencies and boxes of luxury watches were found in their homes Sir Keir as you will be fully aware of Mauritius' reputation for corruption being a major money-laundering"
X Link 2026-02-01T18:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The reason Starmer wanted Mandelson in Washington as ambassador was most likely so he could "convince" the White House that the Chagos deal was a good one because although the UK had to give the Chagos Islands to Mauritous under international law the British government led by Starmer being a staunch ally of America had leased back Diego Garcia at considerable cost so that the joint US/UK could continue to operate. Starmer sent another of his highly-controversial appointees in National Security Advisor Jonathan "dodgy dossier" Powell to Washington to also "brief" the Trump administration that"
X Link 2026-02-02T10:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The Chagos Files joining the dots [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. [----] Starmer becomes Labour Party"
X Link 2026-02-02T13:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Dear Prime Minister Starmer Why is the UK making a multi-billion pound deal that has serious implications for western and national security and for the preservation of the Chagos Archipelago's precious marine protection zone with Mauritius when that country's current prime minister Navin Ramgoolam and the previous prime minister Pravind Jugnauth have both been arrested on money-laundering charges after huge amounts of foreign currencies and boxes of luxury watches were found in their homes Sir Keir as you will be fully aware of Mauritius' reputation for corruption being a major"
X Link 2026-02-02T14:32Z [----] followers, 12.8K engagements
"It's all falling into place. The Chagos Files - joining the dots [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' great mate Keir Starmer KC goes to Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the pair aligned. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling advisory opinion only and non-binding that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. 2020"
X Link 2026-02-02T20:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Shamefully the Tories flirted with a Chagos deal under pressure from lawyers like Philippe Sands the counsel for Mauritius since [----] who argued and leveraged the ICJ advisory opinion and sympathetic civil servants such as Vijay Rangarajan. The deal was made by the Keir Starmer led Labour government with Mauritius prime ministers Jugnauth and Ramgoolam. There were new clauses and conditions added in the months of discussions after the GE and Mauritius made several new demands and also repeatedly put up the price of the lease on Diego Garcia. The stupid Tories who were an utter shambles"
X Link 2026-02-03T07:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The Chagos Files - joining the dots update [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. [----] Starmer becomes"
X Link 2026-02-03T10:14Z [----] followers, 83.4K engagements
"The Chagos Files - joining the dots [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. [----] Starmer becomes Labour Party"
X Link 2026-02-03T11:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The Chagos Files - joining the dots [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. [----] Starmer becomes Labour Party"
X Link 2026-02-03T11:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"ATTENTION Labour MPs PLEASE withdraw your support for Sir Keir Starmer's Chagos deal. You have the information now and know that the UK does not have to give Mauritius the Chagos Archipelago. You know about the threats to the strategically-vital joint UK/US military base on Diego Garcia. You know the deal will lead to the destruction of the islands' precious ecosystems and the Marine Protection Zone. You know the deal disenfranchises the Chagossian people. Please have the courage and the integrity to vote against the Chagos bill and do everything you can to encourage the government to"
X Link 2026-02-03T15:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"It's falling into place now. Controversially appointing Peter "friend of Epstein" Mandelson US Ambassador. The equally questionable appointment of Jonathan "dodgy dossier" Powell as National Security Advisor. Breaking with tradition to parachute old friend Richard Hermer into the House Of Lords to be Attorney General. All done to facilitate Starmer's Chagos deal. The Chagos Files - joining the dots update 03/02/26 The time line. [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin"
X Link 2026-02-03T17:37Z [----] followers, 26K engagements
"Keir Starmer the Labour MPs & Peers the international lawyers led by Philippe Sands and everyone working for and voting for the Chagos Archipelago to be given to China's ally Mauritius knew from the outset that if the deal was ratified it meant an inevitable catastrophe for the wildlife on these rare and precious islands the destruction of their unique ecosystems and the marine protection zone of the British Indian Ocean Territories. They all know that if the bill is forced through it means the British people will be labelled "Chagos traitors" and "environmental vandals" for the rest of time."
X Link 2026-02-03T20:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Project Chagos has been underway for more than [--] years. Here is the intriguing back story. Starmer's "great mate" Philippe Sands KC became counsel for Mauritius for Chagos in [----] the year the Conservatives returned to power in the UK after [--] years of the Blair/Brown New-Labour government. In [----] before he became an MP Keir Starmer was in Mauritius discussing and agreeing the future of the Chagos Archipelago with the Mauritius prime minister Navin Ramgoolam. Starmer stayed at a 5-star resort during his [----] visit and he was presented with a special model of a tall sailing ship by Ramgoolam"
X Link 2026-02-03T21:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"No all that needs to be agreed is for Starmer's treacherous Chagos deal to be consigned to the dustbin of history and the Chagos Archipelago to remain British Sovereign Territory. That way there's no threat to the joint vital UK/US military base on Diego Garcia and the precious ecosystems and the marine protection zone around the islands can be preserved. It also ensures the Chagossian people's desire to remain British and their rights to their homeland will be respected. Shifty Lawyers and greedy businessmen looking to make money created this potential environmental disaster. Just rewind and"
X Link 2026-02-03T22:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Philippe Sands KC. counsel to Mauritius for Chagos since [----] and chief architect and driver of the project to acquire the Chagos Archipelago for Mauritius has been granted Mauritian citizenship. Why would Sands want to be a Mauritius citizen Maybe it has something to do with the plan to scrap income tax in Mauritius due to the multi millions it will be paid by the UK for the next [--] years. KC's earn big bucks and Sands could be in line for a fat tax-free bonus if the Chagos deal is ratified. Lovely Jubbly. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019020017279345018"
X Link 2026-02-04T12:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"From every angle the Chagos deal looks 🤯mad and 😡bad except one. The China angle. China has a close relationship with Mauritius and Beijing has made no secret of the fact it is delighted with the deal. Mauritius has a population of just over one and a quarter million people. China knows everything that happens in Mauritius and can persuade the government to do whatever it wants. Giving the strategically vital Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius is the equivalent to giving it to China. It endangers Western security by comprising the future of the air and sea base on Diego Garcia America's most"
X Link 2026-02-04T13:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"From every angle the Chagos deal looks 🤯mad and 😡bad except one. The China angle. China has a close relationship with Mauritius and Beijing has made no secret of the fact it is delighted with the deal. Mauritius has a population of just over one and a quarter million people. China knows everything that happens in Mauritius and can persuade the government to do whatever it wants. Giving the strategically vital Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius is the equivalent to giving it to China. It endangers Western security by comprising the future of the air and sea base on Diego Garcia America's most"
X Link 2026-02-04T13:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Labour wanted Kamala Harris to win the [----] US Election and even sent a team to America to campaign for her. But Donald Trump ran out a clear winner on November 4th. [--] days later Sir Keir Starmer appointed Jonathan Powell of "Dodgy Dossier" fame as his National Secutity Advisor. In December Starmer ignored many warning to pick Peter Mandelson a friend of Jeffrey Epstein as his US Ambassador. Mandelson took up his duties in America in February [----]. Starmer's not thick he knew he was taking a big risk by appointing the thrice-disgraced Mandelson as US ambassador and he was also fully aware of"
X Link 2026-02-04T15:32Z [----] followers, 50.7K engagements
"The Chagos Files - The time line joining the dots updated 04/02/2026 [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius."
X Link 2026-02-04T18:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"India may be close to making a major oil discovery in the Andaman Sea a marginal sea of the northeastern Indian Ocean. That's a long way from the Chagos Archipelago in their part of the Indian Ocean. However the discovery may have encouraged Mauritius to ensure that it had a clause in Keir Starmer's Chagos deal that gave Mauritius full ownership rights of any minerals found on the land and in the sub-sea area of the territorial waters around the islands. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019131916398592333 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019131916398592333"
X Link 2026-02-04T19:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Chagos - OIL & Minerals India is close to making major oil discoveries in the Andaman Sea in the Indian Ocean. It's a long way from the Chagos. But there's still a clause in Keir Starmer's Chagos deal which gives Mauritius full ownership rights of any minerals etc. found in the sub-sea area of the territorial waters around the islands. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019339476980416549 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019339476980416549"
X Link 2026-02-05T09:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The Chagos deal is worse than you think. Apart from Diego Garcia Mauritius can lease any of the [--] other islands in the archipelago to whoever they want to. Mauritius is a signatory of the African Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone Treaty (Pelindaba) which will impact Diego Garcia operations. Mauritius gets full ownership of all mineral rights including sub-sea in the territorial waters surrounding the islands. The Chagos marine protection zone is the size of France. Mauritius must been informed of all military movements in the archipelago including to Diego Garcia."
X Link 2026-02-05T09:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The Chagos deal is worse than you think. Apart from Diego Garcia Mauritius can lease any of the [--] other islands in the archipelago to whoever they want to. Mauritius is a signatory of the African Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone Treaty (Pelindaba) which will impact Diego Garcia operations. Mauritius gets full ownership of all mineral rights including sub-sea in the territorial waters surrounding the islands. The Chagos marine protection zone is the size of France. Mauritius must been informed of all military movements in the archipelago including to Diego Garcia."
X Link 2026-02-05T09:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Labour wanted Kamala Harris to win the [----] US Election and even sent a team to America to campaign for her. But Donald Trump ran out a clear winner on November 4th. [--] days later Sir Keir Starmer appointed Jonathan Powell of "Dodgy Dossier" fame as his National Secutity Advisor. In December Starmer ignored many warnings to pick Peter Mandelson a friend of Jeffrey Epstein as his US Ambassador. Mandelson took up his duties in America in February [----]. Starmer's not thick he knew he was taking a big risk by appointing the serially-disgraced Mandelson as US ambassador and he was also fully aware"
X Link 2026-02-05T09:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The Chagos Files - The time line 04/02/2026 [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. [----] Starmer becomes"
X Link 2026-02-05T12:04Z [----] followers, 19.4K engagements
"It was no secret that giving Mauritius the 58-odd Chagos islands would result in some of them falling into China's hands. Sir Keir Starmer was a leading human-rights barrister operating internationally for decades and he would have been fully aware that China had huge ambitions in the Indian Ocean. In [----] Starmer even discussed giving Chagos to Mauritius with prime minister Navid Ramgoolam the same man he agreed the current deal with in [----] straight after he entered Downing Street. Here is the Chagos time line. [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good"
X Link 2026-02-05T13:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The Chagos Files - The time line [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. [----] Starmer becomes Labour Party"
X Link 2026-02-05T13:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The Chagos Files - The time line [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. [----] Starmer becomes Labour Party"
X Link 2026-02-05T13:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The Chagos Files - The time line [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. [----] Starmer becomes Labour Party"
X Link 2026-02-05T13:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The Chagos Files - The time line joining the dots updated 04/02/2026 [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius."
X Link 2026-02-05T13:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"It was no secret that giving Mauritius the 58-odd Chagos islands would result in some of them falling into China's hands. Sir Keir Starmer was a leading human-rights barrister operating internationally for decades and he would have been fully aware that China had huge ambitions in the Indian Ocean. In [----] Starmer even discussed giving Chagos to Mauritius with prime minister Navid Ramgoolam the same man he agreed the current deal with in [----] straight after he entered Downing Street. Here is the Chagos time line. [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good"
X Link 2026-02-05T16:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Here is the Chagos time line. [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. [----] Starmer becomes Labour Party"
X Link 2026-02-05T16:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"It was no secret that giving Mauritius the 58-odd Chagos islands would result in some of them falling into China's hands. Sir Keir Starmer was a leading human-rights barrister operating internationally for decades and he would have been fully aware that China had huge ambitions in the Indian Ocean. In [----] Starmer even discussed giving Chagos to Mauritius with prime minister Navid Ramgoolam the same man he agreed the current deal with in [----] straight after he entered Downing Street. Here is the Chagos time line. [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good"
X Link 2026-02-05T17:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Hurrah But we must still keep up the pressure to scrap the deal. It was no secret that giving Mauritius the 58-odd Chagos islands would result in some of them falling into China's hands. Sir Keir Starmer was a leading human-rights barrister operating internationally for decades and he would have been fully aware that China had huge ambitions in the Indian Ocean. In [----] before he was even an PM Starmer discussed giving Chagos to Mauritius with prime minister Navid Ramgoolam the same man he agreed the current deal with in [----] straight after he entered Downing Street."
X Link 2026-02-05T17:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The Chagos Files - The time line [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. [----] Starmer becomes Labour Party"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Starmer's treacherous Chagos deal is for [--] years. Every year the UK has promised to pay [---] million (potentially much higher with inflation) to Mauritius to lease one of the [--] islands in the Archipelago namely Diego Garcia. If the UK doesn't follow the deal to the letter there are huge financial penalties. Why [--] years Who knows what the world will be like in [--] months never mind in a century's time Will Diego Garcia even be needed in [--] or [--] years time https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019529682832572691 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019529682832572691"
X Link 2026-02-05T21:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"From every angle the Chagos deal looks 🤯mad and 😡bad except one. The China angle. China has a close relationship with Mauritius and Beijing has made no secret of the fact it is delighted with the deal. Mauritius has a population of just over one and a quarter million people. China knows everything that happens in Mauritius and can persuade the government to do whatever it wants. Giving the strategically vital Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius a country known for its corruption at the highest level and for being an international money-laundering hub is the equivalent to giving it to China. It"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Labour sent a team to America to campaign for Kamala Harris but Donald Trump ran out a clear winner on November 4th. [--] days later Sir Keir Starmer appointed Jonathan Powell of "Dodgy Dossier" fame as his National Secutity Advisor. A month later Starmer ignores warnings to pick Peter Mandelson as his new US Ambassador. Mandelson took up his duties in America in February [----]. Starmer knew he was taking a massive risk by appointing the Mandelson as US ambassador and was also fully aware of Powell's controversial history during his time as Chief Of Staff for Tony Blair. For some reason Starmer"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"the Chagos time line. [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. [----] Starmer becomes Labour Party leader. 2021"
X Link 2026-02-06T16:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"There's some confusion Sands' transcript reads "I was counsel for Mauritius from [----] to 2014." I heard "I was counsel for Mauritius from [----] to 2024." And he talked about working with the UK government on the deal which was agreed by Starmer during the final months of [----]. Sands claimed he was there in a private capacity. But of course he could be rehired at any moment by Mauritius and it may suit his purposes to not be officially on the payroll at present. Sands was granted Mauritius citizenship in [----]. In a [----] interview with Emily Maitlis Sands gave every indication that he was still"
X Link 2026-02-06T18:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The Chagos Islands and oil. Sir Keir Starmer's treacherous Chagos deal gives Mauritius full ownership rights of any minerals and oil found in the sub-sea of the territorial waters surrounding the islands. During his briefings about Chagos Jonathan "dodgy dossier" Powell made great play about how many of the islands where small and some little more than sand banks. Well once you add in their territorial waters which extend out [--] kilometers even the smallest of the islands contains a significant area of sub-sea real-estate. No doubt Mauritius will tender for geological surveys in the"
X Link 2026-02-07T09:35Z [----] followers, 10.4K engagements
"Labour wanted Kamala Harris to win the [----] US Election and even sent a team to America to campaign for her. But Donald Trump ran out a clear winner on November 4th. [--] days later Sir Keir Starmer appointed Jonathan Powell of "Dodgy Dossier" fame as his National Secutity Advisor. In December Starmer ignored many warnings to pick Peter Mandelson a friend of Jeffrey Epstein as his US Ambassador. Mandelson took up his duties in America in February [----]. Starmer's not thick he knew he was taking a big risk by appointing the twice-disgraced Mandelson as US ambassador and he was also fully aware of"
X Link 2026-02-07T11:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Mauritius gets full ownership rights to any oil natural resources including hydrocarbons in the territorial waters and broader maritime zones of the Chagos Archipelago under Starmer's Chagos deal. When you add in the billions the UK has pledged to pay for the [--] year lease on Diego Garcia which may not be needed after a few years there's a very high probability the UK will paying billions to rent an island that doesn't have a military base on it for [--] or more years. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020125817343291875 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020125817343291875"
X Link 2026-02-07T13:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Mauritius gets full ownership rights to any oil natural resources including hydrocarbons in the territorial waters and broader maritime zones of the Chagos Archipelago under Starmer's Chagos deal"
X Link 2026-02-07T13:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@ShazzerMac3 Mauritius gets full ownership rights to any oil natural resources including hydrocarbons in the territorial waters and broader maritime zones of the Chagos Archipelago under Starmer's Chagos deal"
X Link 2026-02-07T13:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Think you may have missed the point Mick. My general themes have been the various players in Philippe Sands' project Chagos team and why is giving the islands to Mauritius such an imperative for Keir Starmer. This latest post is about the Archipelago's territorial waters and marine protection zone and Mauritius gaining full ownership of all sub-sea mineral rights in Starmer's deal and the potential consequences of that in the future. China can spy as much as it likes right now from space via submarines and spy balloons etc. Trump has said as plainly as he could don't mess with Diego Garcia."
X Link 2026-02-07T14:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Shamefully the Tories flirted with a Chagos deal under pressure from lawyers like Philippe Sands the counsel for Mauritius since [----] who argued and leveraged the ICJ advisory opinion and sympathetic civil servants such as Vijay Rangarajan. The deal was made by the Keir Starmer led Labour government with Mauritius prime ministers Jugnauth and Ramgoolam. There were new clauses and conditions added in the months of discussions after the GE and Mauritius made several new demands and also repeatedly put up the price of the lease on Diego Garcia. The stupid Tories who were an utter shambles"
X Link 2026-02-07T15:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Neither Queen Elizabeth nor King Charles (2025) ever mentioned Chagos in their speeches to Parliament. So where is the explicit Royal consent Chagos is SOVEREIGN British Territory. A prime minister or Foreign Secretary may have the powers to sign a treaty but surely no politician has the right to decide for themselves to give away British territory Can Starmer wake up tomorrow and sign a treaty to give away the Falklands just because he feels like it https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020160472473801111 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020160472473801111"
X Link 2026-02-07T15:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Project Chagos has been active for over [--] years. Here's the time line. [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to"
X Link 2026-02-07T19:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"If as he should Keir Starmer resigns his replacement will be a lame-duck PM and they will have to call an general election to earn a renewed legitimate mandate. That's how democracy should work. When the governing party no longer commands the support of the public it should call an election and win a new mandate or hand over power to the party that wins the public's backing at the new election. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020234056361754729 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020234056361754729"
X Link 2026-02-07T20:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Pravind Jugnauth who was Mauritius prime minister and involved in the negotiations with Starmer's government before Ramgoolam took over in November [----] after he was elected PM again was himself arrested and charged with money-laundering in February [----]. That's the last two Mauritius PMs whom Starmer made the Chagos deal with both arrested on money-laundering charges. An update on the antics of the Mauritian PM and Chagos Island fraud co-conspirator Navin Ramgoolam. What the police found while searching his property Is Navin Ramgoolam a man we can trust https://t.co/XMIxwL9XbN An update on"
X Link 2026-02-08T09:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@DrChrisParry @UKLabour Here's a previous "invasion" of Chagos by Starmer's close friend Philippe Sands KC. https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/2013556086008054038s=20 The video is believed to be from [----] as @Keir_Starmer's friend & confidant Phillipe Sands KC raising the Mauritius flag on the Chagos Islands in [----]. He was a paid agent of the Mauritius government. https://t.co/vKYWKsONL6 https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/2013556086008054038s=20 The video is believed to be from [----] as @Keir_Starmer's friend & confidant Phillipe Sands KC raising the Mauritius flag on the Chagos Islands in"
X Link 2026-02-08T10:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@DrChrisParry @UKLabour The Royal Air Force had a base on the Madives' island of Gan. From [----] until [----] when the then Labour government shut it to save money"
X Link 2026-02-08T11:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@babita_mitchell The reports are that former prime minister Jugnauth and his wife were both arrested in February last year and they are currently on bail awaiting further court proceedings. There where [--] addresses in the original raids and several arrests"
X Link 2026-02-08T17:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The base on Diego Garcia may not be needed in the future. Who's to know what groundbreaking technological changes and geopolitical realignments there will be in the next [--] years. So WHY has Starmer agreed a [--] YEAR lease with Mauritius that has severe penalty clauses if the UK fails to honour it to the letter The UK could be paying billions to lease a small tropical with no military presence at all on it for [--] years or more. Then there's The Maldives. who could lease one of their thousand plus islands in the same region to the US to use as a base. The RAF had a base on the Maldives island of"
X Link 2026-02-08T19:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Is Starmer's Chagos deal the worst deal ever Did Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer even consider the possibility the joint UK/US air-force and naval base on Diego Garcia may not be needed in the future Was there no thought about the possible technological changes and geopolitical realignments that could happen in the next [--] years to [--] years Why did Starmer rush to agree a [--] YEAR LEASE with Mauritius that has severe penalty clauses for the UK if it fails to honour the lease to the letter as soon as he could after becoming PM Did Starmer not realise the UK could be signing up to pay billions to"
X Link 2026-02-08T20:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The [--] year lease is for only Diego Garcia. Mauritius can lease any of the other [--] islands to whoever the want to including China. Mauritius also gets full ownership rights to any oil natural resources including hydrocarbons in the territorial waters and broader maritime zones of the Chagos Archipelago. The Americans could close their base on Diego Garcia in [--] or [--] years time or any other time and the UK will still be paying to rent the island for the rest of the [--] years. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020810158016725161 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020810158016725161"
X Link 2026-02-09T10:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Jonathan Powell was "selling" Starmer's Chagos deal hard back in [----] before Peter Mandelson was appointed US Ambassador. In an interview in October [----] Powell said "These are very tiny islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean where no one actually goes. So we shouldn't be worried about losing that little bit of territory. We are probably losing more to tidal erosion on the east coast than that." Powell leaves out the facts there are more than [--] islands and the Chagos Marine Protected Area is [------] square kilometers which is about the size of France. Even more tellingly Powell omits to"
X Link 2026-02-09T12:45Z [----] followers, 23.1K engagements
"The Maldives have over a thousands islands in the same region of the Indian Ocean. One of them was home to RAF Ganwhich was closed in [----] to save money by the cash-strapped Labour Government. The RAF relocated to rent-free Diego Garcia in the BOT of Chagos. There's a civilian airport and resort now on Gan. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020897267121578207 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020897267121578207"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"There are alternatives to Diego Garcia. The Maldives have over a thousands islands in the same region of the Indian Ocean. One of them was home to RAF Gan which was closed in [----] to save money by the cash-strapped Labour Government. The RAF relocated to rent-free Diego Garcia in the BOT of Chagos. There's a civilian airport and resort now on Gan. Shamefully the Tories flirted with a Chagos deal under pressure from lawyers like Philippe Sands the counsel for Mauritius since [----] who argued and leveraged the ICJ advisory opinion and sympathetic civil servants such as Vijay Rangarajan. However"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Do you support Keir Starmer's Chagos deal Ms Rayner Is it not the worst deal ever Wouldn't 35billion be better spent on helping poor communities Did Prime Minister Starmer even consider the possibility the joint UK/US air-force and naval base on Diego Garcia may not be needed in the future Was there no thought about the possible technological changes and geopolitical realignments that could happen in the next [--] years to [--] years Why did Starmer rush to agree a [--] YEAR LEASE with Mauritius that has severe penalty clauses for the UK if it fails to honour the lease to the letter as soon as he"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The British prime minister should act in the best interests of Britain. The Chagos deal is not in Britain's best interests. So whose interests is it in Philippe Sands was hired by Mauritius in [----] to get them Chagos. Starmer was in Mauritius in [----] discussing giving Chagos away with prime minister Ramgoolam. In [----] Sands managed to obtain the ICJ advisory ruling that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. That "engineered" legal manoeuvre provided the leverage Sands and his team needed to justify a deal being made. Sands with the help of the sympathetic Civil Servant Vijay"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Jonathan Powell was "selling" Starmer's Chagos deal hard back in [----] before Peter Mandelson was appointed US Ambassador. In an interview in October [----] Powell said "These are very tiny islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean where no one actually goes. So we shouldn't be worried about losing that little bit of territory. We are probably losing more to tidal erosion on the east coast than that." Powell leaves out the facts there are more than [--] islands and the Chagos Marine Protected Area is [------] square kilometers which is about the size of France. Even more tellingly Powell omits to"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Starmer's Chagos deal is the worst deal. Did Prime Minister Starmer even consider the possibility the joint UK/US air-force and naval base on Diego Garcia may not be needed in the future Was there no thought about the possible technological changes and geopolitical realignments that could happen in the next [--] years to [--] years Why did Starmer rush to agree a [--] YEAR LEASE with Mauritius that has severe penalty clauses for the UK if it fails to honour the lease to the letter as soon as he could after becoming PM Did Starmer not realise the UK could be signing up to pay billions to lease a"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@BenedictSpence Who knows what damaging revelations or stories may break over the prime minister in the coming weeks All these cabinet and Labour MP endorsements could backfire spectacularly"
X Link 2026-02-09T19:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@MarkHal87606381 @JamesCleverly This is not the 3rd time I sent you this. I have replied to previous comments by you but I spent [--] minutes or more writing this individual considered response to your question Mark. I went out of my way to reply to you as constructively as I could"
X Link 2026-02-09T20:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@JuliaHB1 Won't all the cabinet members and Labour MPs who tied themselves to Keir Starmer today fall with the Prime Minister if he goes down Have none of them looked down the road at what's coming"
X Link 2026-02-09T21:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"As I said the hapless Tories were a shambles and under pressure from Philippe Sands using his ICJ advisory ruling as leverage and sympathetic senior civil servant Vijay Rangarajan. Cleverly did most of the negotiations when he was at the FO but Cameron kicked it into the long grass when he took over. Sands had been working on Chagos officially since [----]. There's been a huge effort put into this project. Starmer himself has been an advocate for it since at least [----] when he was in Mauritius discussing the handover of the Chagos islands with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam who was arrested on"
X Link 2026-02-10T07:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The China angle. China has a close relationship with Mauritius which has major debts with China and Beijing has made no secret of the fact it is delighted with the deal. Mauritius has a population of just over one and a quarter million people. China knows everything that happens in Mauritius and can "persuade" the government to do whatever it wants. Giving the strategically vital Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius a country known for its corruption at the highest level and for being an international money-laundering hub is the equivalent to giving it to China. It endangers Western security by"
X Link 2026-02-10T07:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"I have frequently posted about the Tories role in this farrago. Here are a couple of recent examples. Shamefully the Tories flirted with a Chagos deal under pressure from lawyers like Philippe Sands the counsel for Mauritius since [----] who argued and leveraged the ICJ advisory opinion and sympathetic civil servants such as Vijay Rangarajan. The deal was made by the Keir Starmer led Labour government with Mauritius prime ministers Jugnauth and Ramgoolam. There were new clauses and conditions added in the months of discussions after the GE and Mauritius made several new demands and also"
X Link 2026-02-10T08:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The timed releases one after the other of cabinet members backing the PM shows this act of "unity" was fully orchestrated. The cabinet have shackled themselves to Starmer when the potential for more massive scandals are just down the road. Mandelson's emails and Ukrainian male-models two name just two. The theory for the cabinet falling into line is Starmer threatening to call a general election. But could it actually be a double bluff Could Starmer have actually promised to call a general election in the very near future either way and convinced them it would be suicidal for a member of the"
X Link 2026-02-10T09:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"I remember some cliffs being safeguarded from tidal erosion at West Kirby on the Dee estuary with huge boulders and rocks back around [----] so that a housing estate could be built on the land next to the cliffs. I remember paleontologists scouring the rocks for fossils and even seeing some small fossils in the rocks myself. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021190269220147354 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021190269220147354"
X Link 2026-02-10T11:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Jonathan Powell was "selling" Starmer's Chagos deal hard back in [----] before Peter Mandelson was appointed US Ambassador. In an interview in October [----] Powell said "These are very tiny islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean where no one actually goes. So we shouldn't be worried about losing that little bit of territory. We are probably losing more to tidal erosion on the east coast than that." Powell leaves out the facts there are more than [--] islands and the Chagos Marine Protected Area is [------] square kilometers which is about the size of France. Even more tellingly Powell omits to"
X Link 2026-02-10T14:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"When Starmer moved into Number [--] in July [----] Pravind Jugnauth was prime minister of Mauritius and the deal was agreed in principal before former prime minster Navin Ramgoolam who Starmer had discussed the Chagos islands been given to Mauritius in [----] was reelected prime minister in a snap election in November [----]. Jugnauth was arrested in February [----] on money-laundering charges. Ramgoolam was arrested on similar charges in [----] after he had also lost an election the previous year. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021298383864926369 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021298383864926369"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"I have frequently posted about the Tories role in this farrago. Here are a couple of recent examples. Shamefully the Tories flirted with a Chagos deal under pressure from lawyers like Philippe Sands the counsel for Mauritius since [----] who argued and leveraged the ICJ advisory opinion and sympathetic civil servants such as Vijay Rangarajan. The deal was made by the Keir Starmer led Labour government with Mauritius prime ministers Jugnauth and Ramgoolam. There were new clauses and conditions added in the months of discussions after the GE and Mauritius made several new demands and also"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"I have frequently posted about the Tories role in this farrago. Here are a couple of recent examples. Shamefully the Tories flirted with a Chagos deal under pressure from lawyers like Philippe Sands the counsel for Mauritius since [----] who argued and leveraged the ICJ advisory opinion and sympathetic civil servants such as Vijay Rangarajan. The deal was made by the Keir Starmer led Labour government with Mauritius prime ministers Jugnauth and Ramgoolam. There were new clauses and conditions added in the months of discussions after the GE and Mauritius made several new demands and also"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Please sign the petition if you can and ask your family and friends to sign it too. If the petition's final number is small the government will take that as a signal that the country doesn't care about Chagos and they will force the bill through. Starmer Sands Mandeson Powell Hermer & co will end up grinning like very fat Cheshire Cats. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021478549337640962 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021478549337640962"
X Link 2026-02-11T06:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"For a country with a population of only one and quarter million the lease money alone is enormous but it could be dwarfed by the income from the mining rights options exploration licenses the businesses and the people it will attract to Mauritius and all the legal work it will involve never mind any minerals that may eventually be extracted. The potential is there for a literal gold rush. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021504419276193888 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021504419276193888"
X Link 2026-02-11T08:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The UK has investigated a number of ways to resettle Chagossians particularly on the outer islands in the Chagos Atolls. The agreement with Mauritius allows for resettling on islands other than Diego Garcia. Whether Mauritius would fully honour the agreement after they take control is another matter. When the Americans moved onto DG they didn't ask for the people living there to be removed. It was a British decision to clear everyone off the island. If you read the full article you will see the point of it is that the deal is really about money and mining the sea bed."
X Link 2026-02-11T11:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"From the Treaty ARTICLE [--] [--]. In consideration of this Agreement the United Kingdom agrees: a. to pay Mauritius an annual sum; ARTICLE [--] Duration [--]. This Agreement shall have a duration of ninety-nine (99) years from the entry into force of this Agreement (Initial Period). ARTICLE [--] Settlement of Disputes Basically states the parties will try to settle any disputes with consultations and arbitration. Non payment and termination are not mentioned. ARTICLE [--] [--]. Mauritius may terminate this Agreement only if one of the following grounds for termination of this Agreement exists: a failure by"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Navin Ramgoolam was arrested in [----] on money-laundering an conspiracy charges after suitcases and a safe stuffed with millions of dollars in foreign currencies boxes of Cartier and Rolex watches and blank British visa were found in his home. Navin Ramgoolam wasn't prime minister at the time of his arrest but he was when he met with Keir Starmer in Mauritius in [----] to discuss the future of the Chagos Archipelago. Navin Ramgoolam was reelected prime minister in November [----] and replaced Pravind Jugnauth for the latter rounds of negotiations of Starmer's Chagos Deal. In February [----] Pravind"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"What is Starmer's Chagos Deal really about Decolonization The vast majority of Chagossian people want to remain British. Decolonization was a legal tool/tactic used to force the UK to give Chagos to Mauritius which is what Philippe Sands KC was hired to do in [----]. There is no reason why the UK couldn't resettle the Chagossians on the islands. It's even possible for some of them to be employed on Diego Garcia. The Chagossian people have been horribly treated. To ignore their wishes only exacerbates that long injustice. Diego Garcia The deal is supposed to protect the US military base on Diego"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Given Jeffrey Epstein's worldwide business interests it's no surprise to learn the latest batch of Epstein Files contains multiple references to Mauritius including mentions of Mauritius-registered companies a fund management firm local contact numbers and notes indicating visits to the island. Mauritius has many 5-star resorts where Epstein could have stayed such as Shangri-La Le Touessrok part-owned by Malaysia's richest man the [---] years-old Robert Kuock who has many business interests in China. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021925387773628504"
X Link 2026-02-12T12:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Dreaming of Chagos riches. At just [----] square kilometers Mauritius is just half the size of Dubai. Its population of just over one million and a quarter is only a third of Dubai's. However Mauritius has a longer coast line at [---] kilometers well over twice that of the Arab Emirate's beach front and the country's footprint is set to explode when it takes over the Chagos Archipelago's [--] islands and Marine Protected Area of [------] square. Mauritius is also gearing up for massive economic growth. An already competitive tax regime for international business could become even more attractive with"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Navin Ramgoolam was arrested in [----] on money-laundering and conspiracy charges after suitcases stuffed with millions of dollars in foreign currencies boxes of Cartier and Rolex watches and blank British visa were found in his home. Navin Ramgoolam wasn't prime minister at the time of his arrest but he was when he met with Keir Starmer who was not an MP at time in Mauritius in [----] to discuss the future of the Chagos Archipelago. Navin Ramgoolam was reelected prime minister in November [----] and replaced Pravind Jugnauth who was the prime minister of Mauritius when Starmer became the UK's PM"
X Link 2026-02-12T20:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""It was the Tories" is the standard reply. However Project Chagos began officially back in [----] when Keir Starmer's "great mate" Philippe Sands KC was appointed counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. [--] years later Starmer was talking to Navin Ramgoolam about the UK giving Mauritius the Chagos Archipelago. Those are documented facts. I have frequently posted about the Tories role in this farrago. Here are a couple of recent examples. Shamefully the Tories flirted with a Chagos deal under pressure from lawyers like Philippe Sands the counsel for Mauritius since [----] who argued and leveraged the ICJ"
X Link 2026-02-13T08:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Here is the Chagos time line. [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. [----] Starmer becomes Labour Party"
X Link 2026-02-13T09:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"No one ever claimed Starmer was there in an official capacity. However he was not on holiday. He was invited to a conference and for discussions with prime minister Ramgoolam who had appointed his good friend Philippe Sands as counsel for Chagos [--] years earlier. Starmer was not DDP at the time of of his visit. He stayed in a 5-star resort and he was not accompanied by his family. After their meetings Ramgoolam wrote that he and Starmer were aligned over the future of Chagos. This episode confirms that in [----] Starmer was in favour of what his close friend Philippe Sands had been employed for"
X Link 2026-02-13T09:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"What is the Chagos Deal really about Decolonization The vast majority of Chagossian people want to remain British. Decolonization was a legal tool/tactic used to force the UK to give Chagos to Mauritius which is what Philippe Sands KC was hired to do in [----]. There is no reason why the UK couldn't resettle the Chagossians on the islands. It would be very costly but less than the 35billion for the 99-year lease on Diego Garcia. It's even possible for some Chagossians to be employed on Diego Garcia. The Chagossian people have been horribly treated. To ignore their wishes only exacerbates that"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@Artemisfornow This letter reveals Starmer's lack of imagination and total disregard for the impact immigration has on the British people. Family reunion may sound compassionate but it opens the door for an endless number of people to move to the UK"
X Link 2025-08-07T14:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@NicholasLissack @Keir_Starmer How many voters knew Labour intended to give away the Chagos Islands and spend billions renting one back The Tories started the process and deserve equal blame. UK politicians gave away sovereign terrority without the public's consent. They are traitors"
X Link 2025-08-10T21:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@ABridgen Starmer also appears to be trying hard to derail Trump's efforts to broker a peace deal in Ukraine. Is their any doubt Surkeir is a Manchurian Candidate prime minister"
X Link 2025-08-11T17:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The police have lost the trust of the public. The first they do if you report a crime is to ask you for name and personal details. Immediately you feel like the criminal. They will probably try to filter out your report with some excuse for it not being important. Even if they take down your report you know the chanceon anyone being caught and prosecuted is slim to say the best. Data from The Telegraph has revealed that police forces across the country failed to solve a single burglary in 48% of neighbourhoods in the past three years"
X Link 2025-08-11T17:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Fires in the countryside used to be called Forest fires or bushfires but in the last few years the term "wildfires" has been used by nearly all media. Most fires are started by humans; they are not "wild". However the term "wildfires" implies they are naturally occurring or caused by climate change. They don't want the public to know that the majority of the fires are arson. One person can start scores of fires in a couple of hours. Some justify starting fires by claiming it will make people take climate change more seriously. A more accurate term for most of the so-called "wildfires" would"
X Link 2025-08-20T06:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@ABridgen @UKLabour Starmer is a Davos man. His career is one long CV of destroying Judeo-Christian heritage. From forcing the UK government to give welfare to illegal immigrants to sparing murderers the death penalty to starting a war with Russia his hatred of the West is there for all to see"
X Link 2025-08-24T20:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"From every angle the Chagos deal looks 🤯mad and 😡bad except one. The China angle. China has a close relationship with Mauritius and Beijing has made no secret of the fact it is delighted with the deal. Mauritius has a population of just over one and a quarter million people. China knows everything that happens in Mauritius and can persuade the government to do whatever it wants. Giving the strategically vital Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius a country known for its corruption at the highest level and for being an international money-laundering hub is the equivalent of giving it to China. It"
X Link 2026-02-06T10:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Labour wanted Kamala Harris to win the [----] US Election and even sent a team to America to campaign for her. But Donald Trump ran out a clear winner on November 4th. [--] days later Sir Keir Starmer appointed Jonathan Powell of "Dodgy Dossier" fame as his National Secutity Advisor. In December Starmer ignored many warnings to pick Peter Mandelson a friend of Jeffrey Epstein as his US Ambassador. Mandelson took up his duties in America in February [----]. Starmer's not thick he knew he was taking a big risk by appointing the twice-disgraced Mandelson as US ambassador and he was also fully aware of"
X Link 2026-02-06T11:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The Chagos Files - The time line [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. [----] Starmer becomes Labour Party"
X Link 2026-02-06T11:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The deal gives Mauritius full ownership rights of any minerals (i.e. oil) found in the sub-sea of the territorial waters surrounding the islands. Which as they extend out [--] kilometers means even the smallest of the island contains a significant area of sub-sea. No doubt Mauritius will tender for geological surveys in the Archipelago to see if there is extractable oil and gas etc. in the territorial waters. Oil has been found in the Andaman Sea which is a long way away from Chagos but it's part of the Indian Ocean. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020057047610363938"
X Link 2026-02-07T08:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Technolgies evolve Jill. The Chagos Archipelago's marine protection zone is the size of France and as @OilPaul wrote in an earlier reply to my post "There are Manganese nodules. Guess who is experimenting in recovering those from deep water" Mauritius gets full ownership rights to any oil natural resources including hydrocarbons in the territorial waters and broader maritime zones of the Chagos Archipelago under Starmer's Chagos deal. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020139028008382939 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020139028008382939"
X Link 2026-02-07T14:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Pravind Jugnauth who was Mauritius prime minister when Labour won power in [----] was involved in the negotiations with Starmer's government before Ramgoolam took over in November [----] after he was relected as Mauritius PM was himself arrested and charged with money-laundering in February [----]. So Starmer made the Chagos deal with two men who have both been arrested on money-laundering charges. In each case huge amounts of cash and luxury watches were found in their homes. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020436847046873195 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020436847046873195"
X Link 2026-02-08T09:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@PhilBentley20 @chell_rosey This video covers the Chagossian people being removed from the islands. It's also well worth watching for the bigger picture. https://youtu.be/LKs6nCQtt1Asi=DW5AVGuSXkdCCJsb https://youtu.be/LKs6nCQtt1Asi=DW5AVGuSXkdCCJsb"
X Link 2026-02-08T17:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Shamefully the Tories flirted with a Chagos deal under pressure from lawyers like Philippe Sands the counsel for Mauritius since [----] who argued and leveraged the ICJ advisory opinion and sympathetic civil servants such as Vijay Rangarajan. The deal was made by the Keir Starmer led Labour government with Mauritius prime ministers Jugnauth and Ramgoolam. There were new clauses and conditions added in the months of discussions after the GE and Mauritius made several new demands and also repeatedly put up the price of the lease on Diego Garcia. The stupid Tories who were an utter shambles"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The China angle. Mauritius has borrowed a lot of money from China and Beijing made no secret of the fact it was delighted with the Chagos deal. Mauritius has a population of just over one and a quarter million people. China knows everything that happens in Mauritius and can persuade the government to do whatever it wants. Giving the strategically vital Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius a country known for its corruption at the highest level and for being an international money-laundering hub is the equivalent to giving it to China. It endangers Western security by comprising the future of the"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The Chagos time line. [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. [----] Starmer becomes Labour Party leader. 2021"
X Link 2026-02-09T19:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"the Chagos time line. [----] Philippe Sands KC becomes counsel to Mauritius for Chagos. 2O13 Sands' good friend Keir Starmer KC visits Mauritius for discussions with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam about the future of the Chagos islands. The meeting ends with the men in agreement. [----] Ramgoolam is arrested on money-laundering charges. The same year Starmer is elected to Parliament for first time. [----] Sands obtains an International Court of Justice ruling (advisory opinion only and non-binding) that the Chagos islands should be given to Mauritius. [----] Starmer becomes Labour Party leader. 2021"
X Link 2026-02-09T19:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Starmer made Powell his NSA just [--] days after Trump won the [----] US election in November. As you know he was already working for Starmer and was briefing for the Chagos deal in October but making him NSA enabled Powell to be deployed to Washington DC to brief the Americans. Biden was readily persuaded the deal was OK but there was a new sheriff coming to town and the deal wasn't finalized yet. Starmer's rush to make the deal as quickly as he could was probably influenced by the prospect of a Trump precedency. Trump becoming POTUS may have also had something to do with Hermer recusing himself"
X Link 2026-02-10T10:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"What is the Chagos Deal really about Decolonization The vast majority of Chagossian people want to remain British. Decolonization was a legal tool/tactic used to force the UK to give Chagos to Mauritius which is what Philippe Sands KC was hired to do in [----]. There is no reason why the UK couldn't resettle the Chagossians on the islands. It's even possible for some of them to be employed on Diego Garcia. The Chagossian people have been horribly treated. To give control of their homeland to Mauritius against their wishes only exacerbates that long injustice. Diego Garcia Is the deal to protect"
X Link 2026-02-10T14:13Z [----] followers, 11.1K engagements
"What is the Chagos Deal really about Decolonization The vast majority of Chagossian people want to remain British. Decolonization was a legal tool/tactic used to force the UK to give Chagos to Mauritius which is what Philippe Sands KC was hired to do in [----]. There is no reason why the UK couldn't resettle the Chagossians on the islands. It's even possible for some of them to be employed on Diego Garcia. The Chagossian people have been horribly treated. To ignore their wishes only exacerbates that long injustice. Diego Garcia The deal is supposed to protect the US military base on Diego"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"This is the InterContinental 5-star Resort in Balaclava on the north-west coast of Mauritius where Keir Starmer stayed in [----] when he discussed the future of the Chagos Archipelago with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Dreaming of Chagos riches. At [----] square kilometers Mauritius is just half the size of Dubai. Its population of just over one million and a quarter is only a third of Dubai's. However Mauritius has a longer coast line at [---] kilometers well over twice that of the Arab Emirate's beach front and the country's footprint is set to explode when it takes over the Chagos Archipelago's [--] islands and Marine Protected Area of [------] square. Mauritius is also gearing up for massive economic growth. An already competitive tax regime for international business could become even more attractive with"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Jonathan Powell was "selling" Starmer's Chagos deal hard back in [----] before Peter Mandelson was appointed US Ambassador. In an interview in October [----] Powell said "These are very tiny islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean where no one actually goes. So we shouldn't be worried about losing that little bit of territory. We are probably losing more to tidal erosion on the east coast than that." Powell leaves out the facts there are more than [--] islands and the Chagos Marine Protected Area is [------] square kilometers which is about the size of France. Even more tellingly Powell omits to"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@ey_eball Only [--] months actually. Labour were elected on July 24th [----] and on the 3rd of October despite no mention of it in the manifesto or by Starmer during the election campaign Number [--] announced an agreement in principal had been made to give Chagos to Mauritius"
X Link 2026-02-14T19:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@ey_eball Since [----] at least when he was in Mauritius before he was an MP discussing with prime minister Navin Ramgoolam the UK giving his country the Chagos Archipelago"
X Link 2026-02-14T19:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The current Mauritius prime minister Navin Ramgoolam who was reelected to the office in November [----] was arrested in [----] on money-laundering and conspiracy charges after suitcases stuffed with millions of dollars in foreign currencies boxes of luxury watches and blank British visas were found in his home. Navin Ramgoolam wasn't prime minister at the time of his arrest but he was when he met with Keir Starmer who was not yet an MP in Mauritius in [----] to discuss the future of the Chagos Archipelago. After their discussions in [----] Ramgoolam wrote that he and Starmer were aligned over the"
X Link 2026-02-14T16:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The Chagos Deal is about money. The millions in lawyer fees paid to Philippe Sands and his team and spent on court cases over the [--] years Project Chagos has been running will reap a massive dividend when the billions for the UK's 99-year lease of Diego Garcia start flowing into the coffers of Mauritius. The island of Mauritius which is [--] percent smaller than Luxembourg in size lies [---] miles east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean and it's [----] miles south west of the Chagos Archipelago. For Mauritius to hire a top KC like Sands to help them acquire the Chagos Islands which apart from Diego"
X Link 2026-02-16T08:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The China angle. The deal endangers Western security by comprising the future of the air and sea base on Diego Garcia America's most important asset in that part of the world. It aids China's military ambitions in the Indian Ocean massively. It ensures the destruction of the Chagos Islands' precious unspoiled ecosystems. Mauritius is already talking to other countries about fishing rights leasing islands and is even drawing up frameworks for deep-sea mining in the potentially mineral-rich Chagos marine protection zone. The deal gives Mauritius full ownership of all minerals found on the"
X Link 2026-02-16T16:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"On October 3rd just over [--] weeks after Labour won the [----] General Election Downing street announced the UK had agreed a deal to give Mauritius the Chagos Archipelago even though Keir Starmer had never mentioned Chagos during the campaign and it wasn't in Labour's manifesto. Why the secrecy Why the rush Starmer close friend Philippe Sands had been counsel for Mauritius since [----] and had been working hard to acquire Chagos for his employer. In [----] before he was an MP Keir Starmer had visited Mauritius and discussed Chagos with prime minister Ramgoolam who wrote afterward they were aligned"
X Link 2026-02-15T21:36Z [----] followers, 14.2K engagements
"@DrChrisParry Starmer is a Sinclair C5 pedal to the metal in the center-lane of the M1 heading north at 2am on a bank holiday"
X Link 2026-02-15T22:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"As a geologist you will probably know far more and far better than I. However my research found that subsea surveys of the waters of Agalga undertaken in [----] to [----] showed the presence of gigantic oil and gas reserves. The Mozambique channel which stretches up to Agalga is believed to contain 80% of the world's proven oil reserves and 17% of its proven natural gas reserves. The island of Agalga which lies [---] miles north of Mauritius and [----] south west of the Chagos Archipelago remained part of Mauritius after independence in [----]. Apparently the UK decided it wasn't worth making Agalga a"
X Link 2026-02-16T17:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
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