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@3YearLetterman @PawlowskiMario @Morry_Molotov More people watched The Eurovision Song Contest than watched the superbowl 😂🤣

@PawlowskiMario @Morry_Molotov Soccer is glorified jogging. American football is more popular. 10 billion people watched the SEC championship, way more than watch the World Cup

I literally cannot name one thing that Spain 🇵🇹 does better than America

@TNailo4 @3YearLetterman @a_s_panayides No wonder the world is in such a mess. Americans are so thick.

@3YearLetterman @a_s_panayides And yet you confused Portugal and Spain's flags. Two countries that have been independent of each other since the 1640s

@CatharineHoey FACT CHECK ✅ The mass killing of The Chagossians' dogs and final expulsions of the islanders happened during The conservative government of Edward Heath.

Looking at these pictures every British person should be deeply ashamed of how a Labour Government in the 60’s literally tore these people from their homes,killed their pets and left the islanders to suffer in Mauritius before allowing some to come to the U.K. How can @keirstarmer call himself a human rights advocate when now he wants to once again inflict another injustice by paying to give their islands away. The important Diego Garcia base is safe and the other islands a distance away and Chagossians are British and proud to be so. Is @keirstarmer proud to be British ?

@xsaltwedgex @Telegraph Big mistake.

@ConuParty @Telegraph But the deal has been pulled now?

🚨 NEW: Sir Keir Starmer has been forced to pull his Chagos Island Bill in the wake of an American backlash over the deal. Find out more ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…

@Dad44Rva @Telegraph @grok Chagos history: UK detached islands from Mauritius in '65, expelled Chagossians '68-73 for Diego Garcia base. Now, 2025 deal gives Mauritius sovereignty but UK 99-yr lease—secures base forever, ends legal fights, funds Chagossians. Strategic win for Britain. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@Telegraph @grok please summarize the issues involved.

@xsaltwedgex @Telegraph Chagos history: UK detached islands from Mauritius in '65, expelled Chagossians '68-73 for Diego Garcia base. Now, 2025 deal gives Mauritius sovereignty but UK 99-yr lease—secures base forever, ends legal fights, funds Chagossians. Strategic win for Britain. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

The Telegraph's post announces UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer's decision to withdraw the Chagos Islands bill, which aimed to transfer sovereignty to Mauritius while leasing back the Diego Garcia military base, following strong opposition from US President Donald Trump who labeled the deal "an act of stupidity" over potential risks to a 1966 UK-US defense treaty. The Chagos agreement, initially reached in October 2024 under the prior Conservative government, faced renewed scrutiny in 2026 amid Trump's return to office, with UK Conservatives in Parliament highlighting treaty violations and US lawmakers expressing concerns about base security in the Indian Ocean. Public reactions on X largely celebrate the reversal as a win for Trump and a setback for Starmer, with conservative voices praising the protection of strategic interests, while some UK media portray it as a humiliating U-turn exposing tensions in the US-UK special relationship.

@Telegraph Chagos history: UK detached islands from Mauritius in '65, expelled Chagossians '68-73 for Diego Garcia base. Now, 2025 deal gives Mauritius sovereignty but UK 99-yr lease—secures base forever, ends legal fights, funds Chagossians. Strategic win for Britain. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@KemiBadenoch @Conservatives Thick as a brick. Chagos history: UK detached islands from Mauritius in '65, expelled Chagossians '68-73 for Diego Garcia base. Now, 25 deal gives Mauritius sovereignty but UK 99-yr lease secures base forever, ends legal fights, funds Chagossians. Strategic win for Britain. 👏🏻👏🏻

We have forced the Government to pull a key vote on Chagos. The @Conservatives will keep fighting to stop the Chagos Surrender. Help us Kill the Bill.

@terryri23776124 @Shambles151 @Nigel_Farage Chagos history: UK detached islands from Mauritius in '65, expelled Chagossians '68-73 for Diego Garcia base. Now, 2025 deal gives Mauritius sovereignty but UK 99-yr lease—secures base forever, ends legal fights, funds Chagossians. Strategic win for Britain. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@Shambles151 @Nigel_Farage UK interests for it's people and dependants, not a international, self important, toothless gravy train.

The Americans have woken up to the fact that they were lied to. They were told that the UK had no choice but to surrender the Chagos Islands. This was simply not true, and now they are angry with us.

@MrKnight2205 @Shambles151 @Nigel_Farage Someone clearly uses Ai to post their rubbish. Tip: ask Ai to write it in UK English next time rather than American English 🤣😂

The Advisory Nature Renders It Non-Binding and Optional: Under Article 65 of the ICJ Statute, advisory opinions are not legally enforceable judgments; they serve merely as guidance for UN organs or states. Unlike contentious cases, where decisions are final and binding under Article 94 of the UN Charter, this opinion imposes no legal obligation on the UK to comply. The UK can legitimately prioritize its national security interests, such as maintaining the strategic US-UK military base on Diego Garcia, which is vital for global defence operations in the Indian Ocean. Ignoring non-binding advice preserves state sovereignty and avoids setting a precedent where advisory opinions could erode unilateral decision-making on colonial legacies. Nationalities of Judges Raise Questions of Impartiality and Bias: The ICJ bench in this case included judges from countries with histories of anti-colonial sentiments or geopolitical tensions with Western powers, potentially influencing the 13-1 outcome against the UK. For instance, President Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf (Somalia) hails from a nation with its own colonial disputes and a strong emphasis on African decolonisation agendas. Judges from Morocco (Mohamed Bennouna), Uganda (Julia Sebutinde), India (Dalveer Bhandari), Jamaica (Patrick Lipton Robinson), Lebanon (Mohammed Salam), and Brazil (Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade) represent regions that have experienced colonialism or maintain active stances in UN forums on self-determination, which could predispose them toward rulings favouring former colonies like Mauritius. In contrast, the sole dissenter, Judge Joan E. Donoghue (USA), argued that the Court should not have issued the opinion, highlighting how it circumvented proper dispute resolution. This composition suggests the majority may have been swayed by a post-colonial worldview rather than strict legal neutrality, undermining the opinion's credibility for a former colonial power like the UK. Lack of UK Consent to Contentious Proceedings Undermines Legitimacy: The ICJ's jurisdiction in contentious cases requires explicit state consent (e.g., via optional clause declarations or treaties), which the UK did not provide here. The advisory route, initiated by a UN General Assembly resolution (71/292) passed with significant abstentions and opposition from Western allies, effectively bypassed this requirement. This allowed Mauritius to frame a bilateral sovereignty dispute as a multilateral decolonisation issue, denying the UK a fair contentious forum where it could fully defend its position. By ignoring the opinion, the UK upholds the principle that international courts should not adjudicate disputes without mutual agreement, preventing the erosion of consent-based international law. In essence, the UK should ignore this advisory opinion to safeguard its sovereign rights, national security, and the integrity of consensual international adjudication. Advisory opinions, while influential, are not mandates, and yielding to one influenced by potentially biased judges without proper consent could invite further challenges to UK territories or interests. This stance aligns with historical precedents where states have selectively complied with non-binding ICJ advice.

@CJ8316758312135 @Shambles151 @Nigel_Farage Chagos history: UK detached islands from Mauritius in '65, expelled Chagossians '68-73 for Diego Garcia base. Now, 2025 deal gives Mauritius sovereignty but UK 99-yr lease—secures base forever, ends legal fights, funds Chagossians. Strategic win for Britain.

@Shambles151 @Nigel_Farage So. What's the judges ruling? Irrespective Chagos islands is British and must stay that way.

@Nigel_Farage Chagos history: UK detached islands from Mauritius in '65, expelled Chagossians '68-73 for Diego Garcia base. Now, 2025 deal gives Mauritius sovereignty but UK 99-yr lease—secures base forever, ends legal fights, funds Chagossians. Strategic win for Britain. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@TiceRichard Chagos history: UK detached islands from Mauritius in '65, expelled Chagossians '68-73 for Diego Garcia base. Now, 2025 deal gives Mauritius sovereignty but UK 99-yr lease—secures base forever, ends legal fights, funds Chagossians. Strategic win for Britain. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Labour lied on Chagos And lied again and again That is why US is angry with Labour

@DPJHodges Chagos history: UK detached islands from Mauritius in '65, expelled Chagossians '68-73 for Diego Garcia base. Now, 2025 deal gives Mauritius sovereignty but UK 99-yr lease—secures base forever, ends legal fights, funds Chagossians. Strategic win for Britain. 👏🏻👏🏻

Trump is angry with Starmer because yesterday Starmer had the temerity to deliver some mild criticism of Trump’s Greenland threat. That’s it. Nothing to do with Chagos. And everyone knows it.

@AwayBet @ItsTaz1989 @DPJHodges @Madz_Grant Chagos history: UK detached islands from Mauritius in '65, expelled Chagossians '68-73 for Diego Garcia base. Now, 2025 deal gives Mauritius sovereignty but UK 99-yr lease—secures base forever, ends legal fights, funds Chagossians. Strategic win for Britain👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@ItsTaz1989 @DPJHodges @Madz_Grant It’s not a dreadful deal—despite what some anti-British right‑wing rag would have you think. This agreement protects Britain’s strategic interests, secures the future of the Diego Garcia airbase for the next century, and upholds UN Resolution 73/295.

It's quite incredible to see so many so called "patriots" actively siding with a foreign head of state purely because Starmer is his target. I bow to no-one in my criticism of our Prime Minister. But we are still British, right. A sovereign power. Not the 51st US state.

@JackieD86388657 Since the removal of inheritance tax for farmers in the 80s farm numbers have fallen drastically. Large farms and corporate landlords, have pushed small farmers out of the business. Labour's policy will help redress this imbalance.

If you really cared you'd remove the farm tax Labour will give farmers the confidence to grow and invest share.google/tPGdRLq9CPPl6S…

@BritainElects @YouGov The Tories are finished. Their core voting base is literally dying out - At the last election only 8% of under 30 year olds voted conservative.

📊 Ref lead of 10pts Westminster voting intention REF: 28% (+1) LAB: 18% (-1) CON: 17% (-1) GRN: 17% (+2) LDEM: 14% (-) via @YouGov, 14 - 15 Dec Chgs. w/ 08 Dec britainelects.com

@CannyJimKenny @ItsBubblestime @BritainElects @YouGov The Tories are finished. Their core voting base is literally dying out - At the last election only 8% of under 30 year olds voted conservative.

@ItsBubblestime @BritainElects @YouGov Zero chance. Once the Tories pick up more support, Reform will drop further.

@JimNicholson238 @MrBojan15568643 @StevenJonMiller @comradeiwa Certainly the bad handling of it.

@MrBojan15568643 @StevenJonMiller @comradeiwa We're paying a much bigger price because of Covid.

What comes to mind when you see this woman?

@NeilMaclaren1 @StevenJonMiller @comradeiwa How?

@StevenJonMiller @comradeiwa Much worse.