UK plan to transfer Chagos Islands [Diego Garcia] set to go ahead despite last-minute legal injunction

CNN ^ | Updated 8:02 AM EDT, Thu May 22, 2025 | Rob Picheta

[BenLurkin]

The British government’s plans to hand control of the strategically significant Chagos Islands to Mauritius are set to be signed off on Thursday, after an 11th-hour legal injunction failed to stop an effort that has been intensely controversial in both the United Kingdom and the United States.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer intends to return the islands to the African country, while maintaining control of the US-UK Diego Garcia military base, and the deal is expected be finalized on Thursday.

It comes after a High Court judge briefly blocked the move in a ruling made at 2 a.m. local time (9 p.m. ET on Wednesday). The deal had been challenged by Bernadette Dugasse and Bertrice Pompe, Chagossian women living in Britain who have opposed the deal on human rights grounds.

The UK’s negotiations with Mauritius over the Chagos Islands have been convoluted and controversial.

Starmer’s government announced its plans to sell the islands to the East African country soon after taking office last year, framing it as a long-awaited solution to a colonial-era arrangement that had posed an ethical and legal dilemma.

London is expected to pay billions of pounds to close the deal, and Mauritius is heavily reliant on imports from China, which has raised national security concerns on both sides of the Atlantic.

Grant Shapps, a former Conservative defense minister, told CNN earlier this year that the plan was “insane.”

“(China) will use territory to expand their influence. They will spy,” Shapps told CNN. “A lot of sensitive stuff goes on at British military bases. So you don’t want to be surrounded by potential adversaries.”

[Red Badger]

Trump needs to send a ‘Message to Garcia’..................

[VTenigma]

Trump should tariff the hell out of GB for this. I’m beginning to regret us saving their asses in WW2.

[Tai_Chung]

The US should purchase it

[monkeyshine]

>>Starmer’s government announced its plans to sell the islands… London is expected to pay billions of pounds to close the deal <<

Worst negotiation in history?

[joshua c]

from our “special friend” from across the pond

[Fish Speaker]

Trump should just make them an offer they can’t refuse ...

[nopardons]

BTTT

[ealgeone]

This is real estate we should buy.

[FLT-bird]

I will never understand what the Starmer government is thinking. These islands NEVER belonged to whatever country they’re trying to give them to. They are in a very strategic location Western enemies like China would love to have. And in addition to just giving the islands away, they’re paying money for others to take them?

Its like somebody giving you his house and paying you a big wad of cash for taking his house off of him for free. Who the hell does this? What in the world are they even thinking? Yes Yes, I know the British elites are globalists. Yes I know they hate Britain. That being said, WTF are they thinking????

[SunkenCiv]

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[BroJoeK]

"Trump needs to send a ‘Message to Garcia’.................."

US carrier in Panama Canal:

This has very much the feel of Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s giving away the US Panama Canal to Panama.
Supposedly, there were guarantees of US security and use of the Canal, but no Republican believed Carter on this.

Today, Pres. Trump is trying to undo the damages Carter did then.
We'll see how well that goes.

The US bases on Diego Garcia should not be jeopardized by whatever anti-colonial ideologies have possessed our British friends these days.

US base on Diego Garcia:

[packrat35]

It is a major US military base.

[bantam]

“The US should purchase it”
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THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Greenland, and Diego Garcia, win-win!!!!!!

[MinorityRepublican]

I know the British elites are globalists. Yes I know they hate Britain.

You've just answered your question...

[dljordan]

“The US should purchase it”

Nah, let’s just occupy it. :)

[marron]

Trump wants to annex something, and the Brits want to give something away. Match made in heaven.