Below follows the GSD's reply to the Cheif Minister's May Day Message:

The categorization by the Chief Minister of the current political divide in Gibraltar as being between left-wing and  right-wing politics is desperate fearmongering from a GSLP that has nothing left to say in its fight for political survival 

The GSLP are now the party of the Establishment and big business. It is also the Party of special interests as the  Openshaw Report has shown. This is a Government that remembers the working classes at election time when it starts  to make all form of promises or write letters to people with election commitments that it then unceremoniously  abandons.  

Does Mr Picardo even realise the populist nonsense that passes his lips on this issue? It is galling to anyone who  remembers his 10-year-old Porsche sympathy to persons who felt aggrieved at the financial impact of the proposed car levy that the GSLP Government had to scrap within 24 hours. Was that proof of how the GSLP is the Party of  workers?  

Leader of the Opposition, Keith Azopardi said: “As the son of a Dockyard worker who was a lifelong member of the  TGWU I reject the GSLP’s fake ideological fearmongering in their desperate fight for political survival. 

The real divide at the next election is not between right v left but between RIGHT & WRONG. Whether we want a  Gibraltar where it is acceptable for the GSLP to preside over waste & abuse, be opaque with your money, assault the  law and sanction grossly improper conduct of its leader or his attempts to interfere in a criminal investigation. The  GSD say all that is unacceptable. The GSLP have condoned all that as acceptable. And every leadership contender has  supported Mr Picardo at every stage. That is the true divide at the next election. Right or wrong? And whether the  people of Gibraltar want more of the same or to opt for change and a better future to make sure none of that happens  again.”