Rupert Lowe

I mean, they're getting tax cuts out there.

So, you know, we've given the Chagos Islands away when we didn't need to.

We've sort of...

Mauritius is an island in the Indian Ocean, but the Chagos Islands, basically a lot of Chagossians live in Crawley here.

And they didn't want us to, they didn't want to be part of Mauritius.

And what's happened is Keir Starmer and Herma and Philippe Sands, this sort of bunch of human rights lawyers, you may or may not know the history, we actually paid Mauritius some money in 1963 when we gave her independence.

so that she had no claim on the Chagall signs.

Arguably, the Seychelles and the Maldives have a bigger claim on the Chagall signs that are 1,300 kilometers away from Mauritius.

But these human rights lawyers have indulged their fantasies and at the expense of the British taxpayer.

I mean, we don't quite know what the number is.

It's somewhere between 18 and 30 billion over the next 90 years.

We've literally handed that to Mauritius, who've now given a tax cut to their citizens on the back of it.

But the Chagossians, a lot of them live in Crawley here.

So, you know, they didn't want the deal to happen.

They basically don't like the Mauritians.

What is that?

Well, I think a lot of them do dislike what Britain was.

I think they have this sort of hatred of colonial Britain, which...

mean if you have a hatred of any form of colonialism you have to have a hatred of the belgian uh uh uh a sort of colonization of the congo empire or even france's occupation of of of north africa so well they still occupy africa to this day they do no no they do they do i i i yeah absolutely but i i think i think no i britain may have done some things that that weren't great but on the whole we've i think been a force for good

We've left sound legal systems in India.