The government was slammed by two angry guests.
Martin Daubney halted the programme for a breaking update (Image: GB News)
GB News was paused for a major breaking alert, sparking fury amongst several guests on the programme. Presenter Martin Daubney announced that the government has confirmed it’s shelving the Chagos deal due to lack of US support. He said: “Some massive breaking news for you. Just moments ago, the government confirmed it was shelving the Chagos deal in light of the change in view in the Trump administration.
“It comes just days after a British vessel blocked a boat delivering humanitarian supplies to the Chagossians now living on those islands. Back to that deal, at least for now, it’s been frozen. In yet another remarkable turn of the Chagos Express, the United Nations is now investigating whether attempts to remove the Chagossians from their homeland amounts to ethnic cleansing on the part of this British government.
First Minister of the Chagos Islands Misley Mandarin joined Martin on the show moments later and slammed the Labour government’s claims that they are committing a “dangerous political stunt” by moving back onto the Chagos Islands.
He said: “I just listened to the minister, Stephen Doughty, saying what we have been doing here is a political, dangerous stunt. The dangerous thing is for Chagossians living in misery, left on the docks in Mauritius with nothing, having to fend for themselves, having to go through rubbish bags looking for food.
“I’m very very angry and ashamed of this Labour government. Hearing the minister talking in Parliament saying what we have been doing is a dangerous stunt. Don’t waffle about Chagossians! Make things right.”
Former Conservative MP Adam Holloway joined in on the criticism, believing the government is purposely trying to make it uncomfortable for Chagossians to remain on the islands.
“It’s completely outrageous. In the 1970s, a crime against humanity was committed in the sense of removing native people by force. Now it would seem that this new government made up of a students union from not very good universities are trying to make it really uncomfortable for these guys to remain.
Our team and the philanthropists backing it are trying to resupply the island and we’re trying to repopulate them within the law. But the government is making it very hard from a humanitarian basis for us to get supplies in.
He revealed the government is blocking the supply of items such as sunglasses, mosquito nets, bedding and medical supplies.
“Most seriously of all, they blocked the rescue boat that I’ve got 200 metres that way which would give them the ability to get to hospital in the event of medical emergency. You can’t make it up.”