Diego Garcia and David Milliband

I've finally got round to making a start on Freedom Next Time by John Pilger.

I like this bit on page 40:

BBC newsreaders still refer to US aircraft flying out to bomb afghanistan and Iraq from the uninhabited island of Diego Garcia.

Right, so no one lives there.   Do the pilots and the other workers commute from a ship?
It's nice to see that David Milliband wasn't elected as leader of New Labour, or whatever they call themselves now. 

He's not much of a leader if he thinks he has the power to stop the Chagossians going home is he?  He's not mentioned in the early pages of the chapter 'Stealing A Nation' but he is on wiki, where it states:

On October 22, 2008, the Law Lords reached a decision on the appeal made by the Secretary of State For Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the UK, David Milliband. They found in favour of the Government in a 3-2 verdict, ending the legal process in the UK and dashing the islanders hopes of return. The judgment was published on the UK parliament website.  see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagossian

I think he put our relationship with the US ahead of the people who want to go home.  Not much sign of him understanding right from wrong, or choosing the kind of mates his mother would have let him play with, is there?

Let's hope the EU courts sort it out and let them go home.  It's their home after all.