Kate Vasquez Slaughter

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Hi @SuellaBraverman. You have it wrong, starting with the title of my office... 🤦‍♂️. Please read all the text and the supporting documents and stop playing politics with the People of Gibraltar whose future YOU and your ilk put in great jeopardy with #Brexit. Stop misleading with your selective quotation of a complex document largely negotiated by YOUR Conservative government when it was in office and YOU were Home Secretary.

@SuellaBraverman Eugh. Do go away Suella.

When I predicted that this was going to happen, the First Minster said I was wrong. It turned out that he was wrong… or misleading. We have ceded control of Gibraltar to Spain. It is now British in name only. It can’t go on like this.

The UK government has finally broken its silence on the sinister events which happened under the UK’s watch in a British Overseas Territory. You might think that, given the Mandelson scandal, the UK government would be keen to distance itself from a politician who has been found by a judicial process to have acted in a “grossly improper” and “sinister” way. Or perhaps not. To recap, over six weeks ago a public inquiry chaired by a retired High Court Judge found former Commissioner of the Royal Gibraltar Police, Ian McGrail (my client), was forced out after Gibraltar's Chief Minister, Fabian Picardo, made “grossly improper” and “sinister” interventions in a police investigation into the alleged hacking of Gibraltar’s national security system, all to protect his friend and business partner. He also “deliberately and cynically” misled Gibraltar’s Police Authority to engineer Mr McGrail’s removal. In Gibraltar, the British government, through the Governor, is responsible for “peace, order and good governance”. The then-Governor, FCDO diplomat Nick Pyle, oversaw a completely unfair process leading to Mr McGrail being “forced out”, as the report found. The British Government have, until now, said nothing about the findings nor have they accepted responsible for what happened to Mr McGrail. Yesterday, Foreign Office Minister Stephen Doughty broke this silence, saying the findings were “extremely serious” and “deeply concerning” and “must be urgently addressed”. The UK government “takes its constitutional responsibilities very seriously and expects the highest standards of good governance to be upheld in all our Overseas Territories, including in Gibraltar”. However, the “Inquiry and the report's findings are firstly the responsibility of the Government of Gibraltar, the Gibraltar Parliament, Judiciary and other local accountability mechanisms and authorities.” The report’s governance recommendations are useful - we proposed many of them. But the person charged with implementing them, the Chief Minister, is the very person Sir Peter Openshaw found attempted repeatedly to interfere with a criminal investigation, and misled Gibraltar’s Police Authority to force out Mr McGrail. Mr Picardo now claims the report "vindicated" him but is also suing the Inquiry (go figure!). As Transparency International said: "Though the inquiry makes several important recommendations, it is hard to see how these can be implemented effectively by those implicated in serious wrongdoing.” Unfortunately, the UK government’s statement fails to grapple with this and takes no responsibility for the UK’s own serious failings which allowed it all to happen in the first place. And so, this may be another case of UK ministers looking the other way because of a misguided idea of what is in the “national interest”. As with other scandals, the chickens will eventually come home to roost. questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questi…

Throwback to these truth bombs from @LlanitoWorld

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@Calderon76J Same sh*t, different scandal 🤷‍♀️

Parliament in Crisis: This week's sitting of Parliament was not merely disappointing; it was corrosive. A choreographed exercise in self-preservation, a Govt closing ranks & abusing its parliamentary majority to smother accountability. See my latest blog. calders76.wordpress.com/2026/01/23/par…

@GBCNewsroom Missed a trick with the makeover. The outside could've matched the inside...

Parliament has voted, by Government majority, that it has confidence in the Chief Minister, after the Opposition Leader's Motion, as amended, was debated. Parliament has adjourned sine die after a marathon session of almost 13 hours.

@Playtus1 Yes - but that would be committing political harakiri. None of them have the backbone for it.

@Hwoomarn It can happen if some GSLP MP's vote with GSD in a vote of no confidence. That would do it for sure but does anyone have the courage. Doubt it . 3 would do it I think.

So he believes that, once elected, the incumbent government should be untouchable for four years until the next election no matter their conduct?! These people are not serious.

@barristocracy They are all so willing to jump into the hole that the CM has dug. Bizarre.

@Hwoomarn Yes, it's a mandate seemingly used to justify improper behaviour, examples of ungoverned spending, and refusal to answer questions in parliament, not least on opaque use of savers money.

@GBCNewsroom Nonsense.

Inquiry report can't overturn General Election result, says DCM gbc.gi/news/inquiry-r…

@barristocracy @reb_calderon Well Keith is talking about reform. Lets see what makes it into the manifesto.

@Hwoomarn @reb_calderon The winners will take it as a mandate rather than concede that there is extreme dissatisfaction with the political system and party first politics we've been exposed to over many years.

So they like the bits that "exonerate" and "vindicate" but they'll happily spend our money to challenge the bits that criticise the CM. First the principal auditor, now Openshaw. When will it register that perhaps the issue isn't with others but with them? Next election perhaps?

@barristocracy @reb_calderon Well, Gemma pipped him to it, though perhaps not intentionally. She was a little less enthusiastic in defending the indefensible, however.

@Hwoomarn @reb_calderon Ambition is to be CM. No boat rocking. First to be seen to publicly support. Party power reservation. Win the Executive vote. #politician

Say it ain't so! 😭 I thought Big Nige was one of the good guys but after watching Viewpoint I'm crestfallen... #Gibraltar

@KaelanJoyce 😆

Why you so salty Keef? 🤣🎣😇😉 #Sour #NiceComeBackThough

@Boudicca3061 @Calderon76J In fairness @GBCTVGibraltar have been doing some great work lately. But this propaganda hour is not it.

@Calderon76J @Hwoomarn The GSLP control the Chronicle and GBC. Therefore, there won’t be any freedom of speech in either of those two medias.

Direct Democracy? Disingenuous Drivel.