My Labour MP recently sent me a response defending Keir Starmer’s catastrophic deal to hand over the British Indian Ocean Territory — including Diego Garcia — to Mauritius.
The letter was clearly a cut-and-paste job circulated by the Labour Party, filled with factual errors and dangerously misleading claims.
Letter from my Labour MP
What follows is my direct reply. I firmly believe this issue transcends party politics. It is about national sovereignty, strategic security, and Britain’s future in a world growing more unstable by the day.
My response:
Dear Mr Bloore,
Thank you for your response regarding the Chagos Islands Deal below. However, it is evident that your reply follows a generic party-issued script riddled with factual inaccuracies and strategic miscalculations. This matter demands a far deeper level of scrutiny than it has thus far received.
Let me be clear: this “deal” is not diplomacy, it is a disgrace. We are committing over £30 billion of British taxpayer money to relinquish sovereign territory, only to lease back a military base that we already own and have operated for decades. This is not geopolitical strategy. It is a textbook example of self-inflicted decline.
Your letter claims the agreement has “broad international support,” citing the United States and other allies. I know people who were directly involved in U.S. foreign policy under President Trump, and they consider this deal a boon for America only. It relieves the U.S. of financial obligations while dumping the entire cost onto the British taxpayer. Trump himself thought it was a terrible deal for Britain, he just recognised it was a free lunch for the U.S.
Moreover, your claim that opposition to this deal is limited to adversaries like Russia, China, and Iran is both disingenuous and politically convenient. Public statements are one thing; geopolitical intent is another. Russia and Iran have openly celebrated this deal. China, meanwhile, may feign criticism while quietly anticipating access to Diego Garcia through an increasingly compliant Mauritian government. To suggest otherwise is either naïve or willfully misleading.
Keir Starmer’s statement that China opposed the deal has already been debunked. Repeating such disinformation only erodes public trust and weakens Parliament’s credibility. The truth is this: the International Court of Justice and the United Nations General Assembly (not our enemies) have expressed legitimate concern over the lack of consultation with the Chagossian people. To dismiss these rulings while invoking “Western values” is hypocrisy of the highest order.
Let me speak plainly: if Parliament ratifies this agreement, you will be complicit in a catastrophic geopolitical error.
Please read between the headlines. The Chinese Communist Party is no longer subtle about its ambitions. The tempo is increasing. Beijing WILL move on Taiwan, it is no longer a matter of “if,” but “when.” While the global order edges toward confrontation, the British political establishment is busy dismantling one of the last true pillars of Western presence in the Indo-Pacific: Diego Garcia.
This is not merely a coral atoll. It is a lynchpin of Western strategic power east of Suez. Lose it, and the UK — along with the United States — becomes logistically stranded, unable to project credible force or protect vital interests in the region.
No forward base. No airstrip. No refuelling point. No leverage.
In that vacuum, our enemies will advance. And when they do, we will face a choice: capitulate, or confront. That confrontation will not be abstract. It will be kinetic, and it will be costly. Because when the West shows it cannot hold its own territory, it loses more than ground — it loses respect, and with it, peace.
This is how great powers decline: not in sudden collapse, but through deliberate acts of self-sabotage masquerading as diplomacy. This is the sleepwalk of 1914. The appeasement of 1938. History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes. And right now, it is roaring in our ears.
Mr Bloore, I urge you: educate yourself. Examine the facts. Look beyond party lines and politically convenient soundbites. This is not a matter for blind loyalty to leadership, it is a question of national sovereignty, security, and historical accountability.
You and your colleagues are being watched. The British public is not asleep. Should you vote to ratify this agreement, rest assured your name will be remembered, not as a steward of national interest, but as one who abandoned it.
Do not ratify this deal.
Sincerely,
Claire Bullivant
