a secure and prosperous future

Our values
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• Stability
• Progress

Why vote GSD?

• Many agreements with unions to improve worker rights, pay, pensions and conditions

• Large increases in pensions, abolition of tax on pensions – our elderly never better

• Ombudsman and Citizens Advice Bureau to help citizens

• Restoration and reuse of our heritage

• King’s Bastion leisure centre, Casemates Square, Europa Point Leisure area, Tercentenary Sports Hall and sports facilities, Westside Promenade, children’s playgrounds, Eastern Beach road upgrade, beaches improved, beach car parks, new small boats marina

• Around 2000 new car parking spaces

• New roads & new bus service, new bus shelters

• Income tax abolished for the lower paid & big increases in statutory minimum wage

• Tax on Savings income, Death duties, Road tax and TV licence Abolished

• Company tax cut from 35% to 10%

• New Prison, new Courts

Security

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Gibraltar has been plagued over the past 300 years when it comes to political security. The ultimate support of the British Government, vital as it is to us, is quite clearly not upheld in a way that fully reflects and delivers our legitimate rights and aspirations as a people. Thus, in the face of continuing pressure from Spain in their unrelenting claim for sovereignty and the qualified position of Britain in defending and up holding our rights, we have had to be courageous, imaginative, bold and intelligent in our policies to ensure their effective protection and to make political progress as a people, whilst ensuring a climate of stability in which our economy, and our society could flourish.

Since 1996, led by Peter Caruana and the GSD Government, Gibraltar has never been so prosperous, so protected and so secure as a community. Whilst we have continued to endure threats from Spain and from Britain the GSD has never swayed from or faltered in its resolute pursuit and defence of strengthening our national identity and position every time it has been threatened or challenged wherever the threat or challenge may have come from.

As a result Gibraltar today enjoys a level of political security that it has never before enjoyed, based on 3 key achievements:

• We have seen an end to bilateral talks about our homeland between U.K. and Spain in the Brussels Process and we have obtained from the U.K. a new improved commitment that it would NOT even sit down with Spain to discuss our Sovereignty without our consent.

• We have secured “safe and dignified “ dialogue in the trilateral forum, in which we are present IN OUR OWN RIGHT and with OUR OWN VOICE, in a dialogue that is open in agenda and thus NOT predetermined on the question of sovereignty, and in which forum we have a RIGHT of veto where nothing can be agreed unless Gibraltar agrees!

• We have secured a new Constitution with the U.K. which maximizes our self government and control of our own affairs, while consolidating and retaining our British Sovereignty and constitutional links with Britain in a non-colonial relationship.

This groundbreaking progress has been the fruit of the GSD’s ability to conduct our foreign affairs intelligently and boldly, reasonably and sensibly despite their complexity. Gibraltar’s full range of needs and interests cannot be protected or advanced by simplistic and jingoistic sound bites and attitudes however easy those may be to make, and however justified they may be.

The trilateral forum, has not only allowed us to establish more normal inter-governmental contacts and relations with Spain, but also to solve in our favour some of the big issues of the time, in which EU litigation had failed us, eg: our “350” telephone code and mobile roaming is now recognised by Spain, and our airport now enjoys FULL EU rights and status.