Chagos U-turn shows PM is finally seeing real world – geopolitics cannot be run on wishful thinking and paper promises

ANOTHER week, another U-turn. Never have we had a Government so convinced that everything it thought last week is actually crap and has to be junked. A Government which periodically kind of admits that it is wrong about EVERYTHING. Advertisement Advertisement “Oops, sorry. Let us have another think about that. Ah yes. Our policy was idiotic, wasn’t it? OK. Gotcha. Cool.” This time, it’s good news. The Government is dropping its stupid commitment to handing over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and paying them loads of money for the benefit. That notion was a giant two fingers to the taxpayer,…