Kate Vasquez Slaughter

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[Kate Vasquez Slaughter @Hwoomarn]

@LaLlave1704 Shrinkflation hits the education system.

[LaLlave @LaLlave1704]

When are parents going to be officially told that half days are out, school finishes 30th June and a new mid-term is brought into effect? There is child care to arrange. Children are loosing what 12-14 days of learning. Pathetic so teachers work less for same pay?

[MeteoGib @MeteoGib_]

This is the real "MeteoGib"
#Gibraltar #Weather #MeteoGib

Following a hack on 3rd April, I lost access to our Company X account & 11 years of hard work, content and 11,000 followers to scammers cluck_i and MateoGib with no assistance so far from @X

Please re-follow us. Thanks.

[Robert Vasquez @LlanitoWorld]

https://t.co/MrFAgweR37

[Fabian Picardo @FabianPicardo]

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.

[Kate Vasquez Slaughter @Hwoomarn]

@SuellaBraverman Eugh. Do go away Suella.

[Adam Wagner KC @AdamWagner1]

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.

https://t.co/flm2WxJp7l

[Kate Vasquez Slaughter @Hwoomarn]

Throwback to these truth bombs from @LlanitoWorld

[Kate Vasquez Slaughter @Hwoomarn]

Forever my spirit animal

[UK Back in the Day @UKBackintheDay2]

49 years ago, Kate Bush wrote a song called "Wuthering Heights" in just a few hours…

She then recorded the vocals for it in just one take…

She then choreographed the entire music video all by herself…

And she did it all at just 18 years of age

[Kate Vasquez Slaughter @Hwoomarn]

@Calderon76J Same sh*t, different scandal 🤷‍♀️

[Kate Vasquez Slaughter @Hwoomarn]

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

[Kate Vasquez Slaughter @Hwoomarn]

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

[Kate Vasquez Slaughter @Hwoomarn]

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

[Kate Vasquez Slaughter @Hwoomarn]

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.

[GBC News @GBCNewsroom]

Inquiry report can't overturn General Election result, says DCM

https://t.co/V4zHLTPSVN

[Kate Vasquez Slaughter @Hwoomarn]

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

[Kate Vasquez Slaughter @Hwoomarn]

@GBCNewsroom Nonsense.

[Kate Vasquez Slaughter @Hwoomarn]

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

[Kate Vasquez Slaughter @Hwoomarn]

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?

[Kate Vasquez Slaughter @Hwoomarn]

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

[Kate Vasquez Slaughter @Hwoomarn]

@KaelanJoyce 😆