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But that's the point about it
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I mean... Because I've never heard that argument before. Well, it's been around
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And what we've had is we've had two judgments against us already, one from the International Court of Justice
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one from the UN General Assembly. Now, they were advisory, so we didn't have to comply with them
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The next stage would be it would go to the UN Convention on the Sea
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That would be legally binding. And the problem there is if Mauritius is actually aligned with China
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If international law said that we could not be there, that would mean that China could move in
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and have international law on their side. But Mauritius is further away from the Chagos Islands than we are
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Well, no, I mean, we're 6,000 miles away. I mean, it's about 1,000 miles to Mauritius
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But it's never been Mauritius. Exactly. They've never had a claim on the Chagos Islands
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So to think that it's somehow rightfully theirs is for the birds
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It's for the courts. It is for the courts to decide who actually should own that
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The amount of money that is going to be handed over to Mauritius is actually obscene
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When you start digging down into the figures million a year for 25 years to support projects for economic development in Mauritius This is like renting a house
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This is a deal to actually lease a military base. So we can freeze our own pensioners but we can pay for the Mauritian
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economy to be bumped up. But this is a deal to keep
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Diego Garcia as a military base. Where's the money coming from? Because all we keep hearing from
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the Chancellor is that there's some enormous £22 billion black hole, you know, the one that we've always heard about
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I'm forking out now. I mean, all right, we're not paying all this money up front. It's over 100 years
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Yeah. But it's two million quid a week. I mean, by his conservative figures
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Yes, I know, but because we're leasing then a military base. I mean, the figures seem to be all over the place, in fairness
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that the Telegraph reporting a £30 billion cost. It looks as if that's a kind of calculation on the back of a packet
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But whatever the cost is, we're renting something. Inflation at 2% for 100 years is what that is
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and the other programmes that Claire's spoken about there. Yeah, but, I mean, at the moment we're talking about up at 100 million
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But the figure is not so much important as the principle that if we want to retain that military base, this is the way to do it
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We are renting it. It is like renting a house or something like that
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So on the basis of that, we've got to pay some money out
