Fair play in the Indian Ocean

Anthony Barnett (London, OK): While the Lib-Dem candidates (see below) stressed their anti-establishment credentials they repeated the Brownite touchstone about being "fair".  It seems to be a Liberal/national/conservative/socialist essential to our way of being. Funny that. Why the need to say so, so often? Switch to the UK possession, Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. Its 'island people' were cleared out to turn the tiny archipelago into a US base. See HERE. Soon afterwards we re-invaded the Falklands to protect the rights of those islanders, and they were not even being removed. Now was that fair? Eventually, the Chagos won a ruling that they could return. Now it seems that the Foreign Office under Miliband-the-Fair is appealing against this decision! There is a brief and to the point petition asking for the appeal to be dropped on the  No 10 website with 100 signatures. Apparently it needs 200 to force the government to reply. Sign it and let's see what they say.