https://spectator.com/article/starmer-is-making-life-impossible-for-the-chagos-islanders/
Five of them came aboard our sailing boat at 8 a.m. on Saturday. Naval and Royal Marine personnel rebranded as police officers, immigration and customs officials, and, for some reason, a French-speaking fisheries protection officer. Other Royal Marines stayed on their assault boat. Whilst individually perfectly pleasant, they were all there to make sure life did not become too comfortable for the six Chagos Islanders who have returned to their ancestral home. Agents of the British state, climbing over our vessel, poking into crates, writing on clipboards – an act of sheer malicious spite by Keir Starmer’s government, which hasn’t managed to stop a single boat closer to home.
Our trip was a humanitarian resupply run. It was organised after a High Court judge ruled last month that the Chagossians now on Île du Coin, on the atoll of Peros Banhos, have right of abode. These people have a legal right to be where they are, and yet, while the British government fights the ruling on appeal, it is doing everything it can to make their lives on the island impossible. You cannot tell a people they may stay and then refuse them a net to keep the mosquitoes off at night. But that is what happened on Saturday.
https://archive.ph/7HTAo
Five of them came aboard our sailing boat at 8 a.m. on Saturday. Naval and Royal Marine personnel rebranded as police officers, immigration and customs officials, and, for some reason, a French-speaking fisheries protection officer. Other Royal Marines stayed on their assault boat. Whilst individually perfectly pleasant, they were all there to make sure life did not become too comfortable for the six Chagos Islanders who have returned to their ancestral home. Agents of the British state, climbing over our vessel, poking into crates, writing on clipboards – an act of sheer malicious spite by Keir Starmer’s government, which hasn’t managed to stop a single boat closer to home.
Our trip was a humanitarian resupply run. It was organised after a High Court judge ruled last month that the Chagossians now on Île du Coin, on the atoll of Peros Banhos, have right of abode. These people have a legal right to be where they are, and yet, while the British government fights the ruling on appeal, it is doing everything it can to make their lives on the island impossible. You cannot tell a people they may stay and then refuse them a net to keep the mosquitoes off at night. But that is what happened on Saturday.
https://archive.ph/7HTAo