A hearing at the British Indian Ocean Territory court today has extended an injunction preventing the removal of the Chagossian settlers on the archipelago. A win…
The injunction will go on until 13 March at the earliest – a two week reprieve. The only restriction from the court is that “passengers” can’t be transported to/from the settlement…
The settlers are however allowed to bring “suitable crew,” which the court has not defined. Misley Mandarin, Chagossian First Minister leading the settler population, said:
“The decision made in the BIOT Supreme Court today, means the Government cannot remove us from the Chagos Islands. We can continue to get essential supplies on the island by boat. This is a crucial step forward in our battle against Sir Keir Starmer’s attempts to seize and give away our Chagos Islands. We will continue to build our settlement; we will do everything necessary to win this fight to save our islands; we are home — and we will not leave!”
The fight goes on…
Speaking at an IPPR think tank event in London, the Health Secretary compared striking junior doctors to mutinous sailors.
“I feel like we’ve turned the ship, the boat’s going in the right direction, except some of the crew are trying to row in one direction while the rest of us are going in the other. You can’t make progress that way. We are seeing an improving NHS, and we’ve seen improvement despite resident doctors’ strikes, but the fact is, performance would have been better and there would have been more money to invest in staff and services if the BMA hadn’t been undertaking the strike action.”