The Chief Minister Fabian Picardo appeared on Sky News this morning, condemning the “unnecessary” Spanish Guardia Civil and Customs incursions into British Gibraltar Territorial Waters yesterday.
The Government of Gibraltar has said it is always receptive to genuine suggestions or proposals from any individual or group that puts its ideas forward in a constructive manner via an appropriate forum. Indeed, the Government has worked with countless individuals and groups in this respect since its election, some of them previously closely linked to the GSD.
The Opposition has said that, “as expected” whenever it raises an issue of public concern, regardless of how constructively it may be, the Government replies with the “blame the GSD" mantra.
The Government has replied to what it calls the Opposition’s “latest repetition of the same tiresome arguments” regarding public finances, to which, it says, it has already given answers in Parliament. The Government says it can only respond by reiterating its commitment to halve the level of gross debt that was inherited in December 2011, specifically £520 million, by the end of the lifetime of the current Parliament. Number Six says that Mr Feetham has repeatedly asked "how it will be done", clearly accepting, it says, that it can be done “but that he is unable to work it out.”
