GSLP-Liberals-Manifesto-2019

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economy. We have abolished tax for those on less than £11,200 and given effect to a significant reduction in income tax across the board. We have delivered above inflation pay increases in the public sector of 20.4% since elected as well as delivered annual increases in old age pensions, and the minimum income guarantee. We have achieved SUSTAINABLE growth. We have achieved RECORD low unemployment. These figures are not a flash in the pan - they are delivered year on year, year after year. That is our record. That is what you must judge us on now as you look to who should have conduct of Gibraltar’s affairs in the future. OUR POST BREXIT ECONOMIC PLAN But there’s more yet to do and we are the only ones with a plan to do it. Only we have a Post Brexit Economic Plan, the outlines of which we have detailed for you in this manifesto. The author of the plan is Sir Joe Bossano. He is the only person who can show he has done this before – at the time in the 80’s when we had to reposition our economy after the closure of the Dockyard and the reduction in the MOD presence. He has the track record that you can trust. I have heard so often the nonsense that Joe Bossano is too old, that Joe should retire etc. Yet, when the chips are down, everyone in our community looks to Sir Joe on issues of economics. It is fitting that Her Majesty bestowed a very well deserved Knighthood on him in the past four years. GIBRALTAR 2030 This is the only long term plan for our nation. It is the only manifesto that presents a clear economic plan for the future. For the next decade or more. It is not realistic to think we can plan longer term in a fast moving technological environment like the one we operate in today. Our economic plan is long term thinking. Our environmental commitments represents a radical change from the past. We understand that our economy needs to gravitate around the sustainable, environmental needs of our planet and not the other way round. That is what John Cortes and Sir Joe Bossano have been pioneers in showing for decades. From the days that the first GSLP administration created the Upper Rock Nature Reserve and the Alameda Botanical Gardens, to the decision we made - led by Sir Joe and John - to rightly abandon the GSD’s diesel burning, disastrous power station at the entrance to the Nature Reserve. A NEW KIND OF POLITICS We have worked hard to deliver for all the generations of Gibraltarians and we remain committed to doing so. From IVF, Savings Bank grants for newborns, Children’s PCC, new schools, scholarships, training, apprenticeships, jobs, affordable homes, sporting facilities, Community Care and rental homes for the elderly and excellent elderly care institutions, we are there for every generation – from the cradle to the grave. We are building a Child Friendly City, a Green Gibraltar because we know that that is the way to protect our quality of life for the long haul. We are making these signature commitments to the environment, to our health, to civic and social development because we know that people are our single most important asset as a community. By contrast, the GSD’s contribution to politics in the last four years has been to vote down the salaries of thousands. They vote down the measures that enable this community’s health services, that pay for the education of our children, the care of our elderly and vulnerable. They vote down the salaries of our brave essential services. We, the GSLP Liberal Government vote the measures through, with the support of the independent MPs (Ms Nahon and, one year, Mr Lawrence Llamas) despite the GSD’s opposition at Budget time. This proves, of course, that for the GSD politics is just a game and Gibraltar’s interests are second to their narrow, party-political interests. It also proves that, for the GSD, politics is all talk and no action. Gibraltar needs better than that. Gibraltar deserves better than that. Gibraltar HAS better than that in the GSLP Liberals. PHASE 2 - THE CHILD FRIENDLY CITY The GSLP Liberals have invested in the homes and offices that make our homes and jobs. We now move on to phase 2 in the project to deliver on the GSLP Liberals’ vision for Gibraltar. With this manifesto we begin the work of building the best Gibraltar we can be on the foundations of the last eight years of GSLP Liberal Government. Working with you, we commit to working hard to ensure that we continue to prosper as a community, steering our economy through the many challenges we face. Developing a Green Gibraltar to deliver a Child Friendly City. We commit to continuing to be serious, intelligent and mature about defending the interests of all generations of Gibraltarians, for four more years, and beyond. WE CAN DO THIS JOB It has been my greatest honour and my absolute privilege to have served my country as your Chief Minister for the last eight years. Few can imagine the volume of work being Chief Minister entails. This is not 9 to 5, its 24/7. Not everyone is cut out for that. The support I have had from the ministerial team has been unimpeachable and they have been the ones who have continued to deliver our previous manifesto as Joseph and I have been travelling the world on Brexit duties. In light of all this, I believe these eight years have shown my team can do the job of Government and I have been up to the challenge of being Chief Minister. This is your cast iron guarantee that we will deliver on our manifesto to create the best Gibraltar we can be, with a long term objective in mind - creating Green Gibraltar, the Child Friendly City. I am often accused of (or praised for) being ambitious, driven and single-minded. I am all those things. I am ambitious for our children’s future. I want them to enjoy the fruits of the labour of those who have gone before me and the blessed existence I believe we all, as a nation, can deliver for them if we continue to invest wisely. I am driven to making the GSLP Liberals’ vision, as set out in 8 ...aspire to the best Gibraltar
this manifesto, a reality because it is the best plan to deliver a sustainable future for our nation as a Green Gibraltar that is the Child Friendly City that can be the envy of the world. I genuinely believe that with hard work we can continue to reach beyond the size of our nation and achieve a lot more than most can imagine. Finally, I am single-minded in my determination to work for all the generations of Gibraltarians, honouring the past by working hard in the present to secure the future of our home and its people. To defend and protect Gibraltar with every fibre of my being because I love our country with every fibre of my being. I BELIEVE IN GIBRALTAR. I BELIEVE IN THE GIBRALTARIANS. I have been humbled to serve you this far. I have been humbled by the opportunities I have had in my life, thanks to the work of our political leaders over the years. I now humbly ask that you once again give me your confidence. That you give me one further opportunity to serve our people. I ask that you give us your ten votes and return the GSLP Liberals to Government so that, together, we can deliver the best Gibraltar we can be. Yours Fabian “The Chief Minister warrants our continued support. Unquestionably his Brexit negotiations have been in Gibraltar’s best interests, including the tax treaty. His efforts to establish a more positive narrative with Madrid and to keep Westminster ‘on side’ need to be recognised. They are both magnificent achievements.” The Gibraltar Chamber of Commerce Annual Report & Accounts 2018 ...aspire to the best Gibraltar 9
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Page 3 and 4: CONTENTS PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM FABI
Page 5 and 6: Personal message from Fabian Picard
Page 7: Our credentials are clear. We have
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Page 15 and 16: let’s talk about...Fabian FABIAN
Page 17 and 18: new Town Planning Act requires the
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Page 29 and 30: let’s talk about...Joseph JOSEPH
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Page 41 and 42: GRAND BATTERY HOUSE We will work wi
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Page 45 and 46: the two basic resources, namely our
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vote for the GSLP Liberals 7 Vote f
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let’s talk about...John JOHN CORT
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• taking policy measures to impro
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ALL BEACHES We will improve the lif
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The Mount ...an adventure park for
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Walk the Wall
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A beautiful new green space in the
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Turn parking into park...just like
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THE GIBRALTAR NATIONAL PARKS ACT In
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OLD DIESEL PLANTS DECOMMISSIONED By
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end and low-cost, affordable housin
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uilt in this period will be St Jose
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fact, seeking medical care but simp
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In government, we embedded our long
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modern facility following the addit
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extend the ability of dementia pati
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THE CARE AGENCY - PLEDGES We are wh
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ecent FATF recommendations require
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New training facilities for the GFR
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New facilities at the University of
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Investing in the Upper Rock and tou
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for tourism generally and not just
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labour market, the Government will
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World class sports facilities, at l
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Cultural events like never before i
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THE ARTS ADVISORY COUNCIL We will s
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let’s talk about...Samantha SAMAN
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BEACH VIEW TERRACES & MONS CALPE ME
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New children’s play area at Willi
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RGP, the DPP and the Judiciary. We
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EQUALITY Our Government has been a
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