Chagos Islands

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  1. pompey_red

    pompey_red Well-Known Member

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    see the post above your post for exactly this!
     
    pompey_red, May 23, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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    Obviously misunderstood your meaning, sorry
     
    troff, May 23, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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    I actually have a feeling that there’s a chance Farage might be the one to ‘rescue’ the Tories.

    All the noise about them winning the next election based on local election protest votes etc - there’s maybe just too high a risk for him that the right wing vote will be split and he won’t get the power he clearly craves.

    Reform Tory merger, Nigel as leader. The MPs and candidates are pretty much all former Tory members anyway - The voters will likely all follow Nigel. At least enough of them in red wall areas will pinch their nose and vote Tory if he was banging the drum anyway.

    You probably didn’t hear it here first…

    Think one of you is right though. The Tory leader by the next election will be either Johnson or Farage.
     
    troff, May 23, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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    Have the Tories got a safe seat these days?
     
    Andy Mac, May 23, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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    Thank you. I couldn’t quite see through the media rhetoric.
     
    e-red, May 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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    I have never heard of the Chagos Islands but I'm highly incensed that we're simply giving them away. Woke culture gone mad.
     
    Jay, May 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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    We aren't. They were never ours.
     
    orsenkaht, May 24, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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    I like my Chagos with chocolate dip
     
    Tilertoes, May 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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    Imagine having a shag in Chagos. Crude, but it's my thought for the day.
     
    Stephen Dawson, May 24, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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    Me, 79-80, we built the 'new' brit club. Happy days
     
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    Personally I believe that we have done the right thing. Even the Tories got this one right. The British Empire was not the wonderful thing it was always made out to be. Neither were the other smaller ones like the Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch. A lot of our national wealth is based on the subjugation of people all over the world. Most of that wealth being owned by a small number of wealthy families of course, not the ordinary people, who were exploited by much the same lot in the industrial revolution - something which was largely powered by the Empire.
     
    Brush, May 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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    I used to like Empire Stores.
     
    Stephen Dawson, May 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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