General British politics discussion thread

i do care what they think however i have to recognise the realities as well.
personally the islanders being able to return home with moritious giving them independance would be the best course of action, and britain allowing them to keep their british citizenship as it owes them.
then america can do a deal with the islanders over the use of the military base if they want a base there so badly.

no it is ending an illegal occupation and returning the territory to the country it has been legally recognised to be part of.
the UN and ICJ are enforcing international law, only the UK can agree to grant the islanders wish to remain british citizens but the territory cannot remain british under international law + britain cannot afford to keep it anyway.

it's also not strategic in any way, that was just empire nonsense to justify the stealing of these people's homeland, their extremely brutal expulsion which involved brutal criminality, and the continued illegal occupation of the territory.

international law says otherwise, it trumps empire beliefs.
moritious has a full claim and britain has none.
views are split across the world's chagossian community as to what should happen.
the ICJ ruling was a ruling of fact, so it being advisery is just a technical thing really, it is still stating the correct legalities.
the remains of the british empire have to go back to the countries the territories belong to.

no, they don't need one as they can be allowed to keep their british citizenship and continue to have the same rights to migrate to britain if they want.

it's simply that the illegally occupied territories have to be returned to their countries of ownership.

and the malvina islanders and gibraltans can live in their homes, the territories simply have to return to their countries of ownership and can no longer be occupied by a country which still has notions of empire.
it is britain preventing the chagossians from living in their homeland due to racism.

How can someone from Gibraltar or Falklands have the same rights as British citizens when they would be living under Spanish or Argentiniam rule/laws?

If it was decided tomorrow that NI was reuniting with ROI would it be ok for NI citizens to only follow British rules/laws?

Britain will never give up the Falklands or Gibraltar and the people would never accept being ruled by Spain.or Argentina

Ohhhhh I'm well aware of that particular poster 🤣

so who owns the Falklands then?

argentina owns them.

and they are actually called the malvinas, the falklands is just an empire colonialist name.

because they are part of argentina's territory and always have been through the various administrations.

see my previous post as to why.

no it's just fact, reality and geography, you can't pick up territory and just move it.