Election 2024: The Fate of Democracy

Amps Is binge-porn watching your go to dopamine hit to quell climate anger?

Hursty No. But in unrelated news, I have recently become a heroin addict.

Amps Do you know how much CO2 was released into the atmosphere getting you that Heroin from Helmand Province? You’re as bad as the rest of us.

This should cheer Amps up, just the 84 million passengers.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y2383yx7go

LT42 My dealer says it all comes from Hulme?

@Amps Are you smoking or injecting pal?

mono-stereo

It’s a lose/lose, mono. Smoking and he’s fucking up the ozone layer. Injecting and he’s adding to the disposable plastics tally daily.

Amps is basically the board’s own BoJo. Do as i say, not as i do.

-si- just waiting for those solar panels made from Chinese slave labour

hugopal Why would it be bad for the UK to hand back sovereignty of the Chagos?

Hursty What’s its strategic importance?

It’s strategic importance is that it’s strategically important Grant.

Hursty I’m not picking a fight - I genuinely don’t understand why it matters. I get why it matters to the US, but not the UK….

vinnyt77 It doesn’t even matter to them, the base stays there

It’s all to do with nuclear weapons and the African Nuclear weapons free zone which came about in 1996.

_"In early 2023, the United Kingdom and Mauritius renewed negotiations to settle the Diego Garcia sovereignty dispute. Noting the significance of the U.S. base on Diego Garcia, Mauritius had previously offered the United States a 99-year lease on the island in exchange for full sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago.

However, the offer included an explicit commitment that Mauritius support the “unhindered operation” of the U.S. military base, reviving outstanding questions about the inclusion of Diego Garcia in the African nuclear weapons-free zone.

The proposed lease thus raises an underlying tension in the sovereignty negotiations that challenges the principles of American and British nuclear nonproliferation. Under the current terms, the nuclear status of Diego Garcia must be settled before the sovereignty dispute can be addressed.

Last December, the U.K. dropped the negotiations, citing government concerns that ceding Chagos to Mauritius would endanger U.K. and U.S. defense interests in the Indo-Pacific. At present, the U.S. lease of Diego Garcia from the U.K. is set to expire in 2036_."

Hursty Ta. Clear, concise, informative. Would buy again ️

If it looks like weeds and smells like weeds….

Wonder who Big Don has lined up on music duties. Gonna be a big ask to top last time around: