Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "Mauritius say they don't want the Chagos Islands back after all | LBC" video.

@tasshah8509 Oh dear. The Chagos Islands were unoccupied, before France landed a number of slaves on them. The islands were handed over to Britain in 1814, and have remained under British control ever since. Chagossians living in this country do not wish for their islands to be handed over to Mauritius, by the way.
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@vikramsoondur6891 You sure about that? Moreover, I am sure that you have an impeccable source about their opinions, amnd you will now vouchsafe it to us.
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@vikramsoondur6891 The Chagos Islands were never part of Mauritius. They were uninhabited, then French, then, from 1810, British. The people of the Chagos Islands are not Mauritian in origin.
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For a couple of hundred years? Try again. Mauritius became an independent nation in 1968.
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No. They inherited discussions only. There was no deal imminent.
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@jamesfx2 I can well sympathise with your need to try to move the goalposts away from the Chagos Islands shambles, comrade.
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@xtranormalCARTOONS88 Get a grown up to explain the message to you. The reference was to the United States. It was surely clear enough.
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@mwd331 But the reference was, clearly, to the US election. As to the British General Election, the winning party accrued 19% of the votes of the total electorate, and 500,000 votes less than it did in 2019.
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@mwd331 I am simply correcting your reference to 'most people' when it is clearly not the case.
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Are you desperate, owd lad? The previous government was involved in negotiations. David Lammy tried to hand the Chagos Islands over immediately, and sought to pay Mauritius to take them. Even though the Chagossians want nothing to do with Mauritius.
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