[Daphne – That is just one aspect of the issue. What really gets me is the infantile exhibitionism (“I’m going to be daring, vote Labour and wear a red tie on an official Labour video with Leo Brincat and George Vella”) coupled with the weird stupidity (“I want to be in with the in crowd, hang around with rich old ladies and knights, but then slum it with Anglu Farrugia”) and the absolute lack of pride in letting himself be used like a scalp or a bedpost notch (“We’ve converted Michael Grech to Labour.”). It takes all sorts, I suppose, but count me out.)

I cannot understand anyone trying to excuse Dr Grech’s despicable, disloyal and unethical behaviour. At the risk of repeating everything that has been said about the whole issue, this man simply betrayed the trust that was given him by the party in government.

Michael has a government appointment, consulting on privatisation (of which the opposition is highly critical). Had he resigned his post, it would have been a different matter. He would have been perfectly free, as everyone indeed is, to back the Labour Party’s candidate, Louis Grech, to endorse him at ‘parties’ and to influence people to vote for him, people who incidentally should know better and whose family businesses have benefitted immensely these last two decades under a Nationalist government – might I add, by tendering for huge projects and winning them fair and square, something which would never have happened under a Labour regime.

Dr Grech will find that the friends he influenced to vote Labour (“ghax dan habib kbir, ghandu track record, u l’aktar persuna li tista taghmel dan ix-xoghol”…….vomit, vomit) are the very ones who are now denying him, but then ”Ghidli ma min taghmila u nghidlek int min int”.

I’m afraid Dr Grech has let himself down, and let down his family, colleagues and friends too, very badly, and the social circles he aspires to will not be taking kindly to his ridiculous behaviour.

People “of great integrity and utmost professionalism” would not accept consultancy contracts from one party and then handle an electoral campaign for their opponents.

@Corinne: If people voted like I did we would have had Marlene instead of John. The better of two evils, call it what you like.
My train of thought is very simple: if one gives a preference to each and every candidate all the candidates will get elected with a quota. All the voters who voted PN and stopped there could have elected the opposition MEPs when their party was eliminated.

There are two points I’d like to make.

First of all, I know Michael Grech well and he is a person of
great integrity and the utmost professionalism. Anyone
who really knows him will agree with me on this and on
the fact that there is no truth in the above remarks.

Secondly, Louis Grech has been a close friend for over
forty years and one of the reasons his Nationalist
friends are so fond of him is that he has never tried to
pursuade them to vote for him or the Labour Party
{re your blog about Jason Micallef).

[Daphne – Cikki, come on. Louis Grech ran a concerted campaign among a certain group of people this time round. That’s how I know about it. “He has never tried to persuade them to vote for him or the Labour Party” – a vote for Louis Grech IS a vote for the Labour Party. The two are inseparable, and I imagine that those who put a mental brick wall between the two realised they were in denial only when they woke up to hear Joseph Muscat crowing about all his new tal-pepe converts and people who had voted Labour for the first time.

I laugh when I think of who some of those people are, and how they demeaned themselves by letting themselves become a notch on Muscat’s bedpost. Over my dead body…. As for Michael Grech’s integrity, I fear he hasn’t any. Intregity by definition cannot be compartmentalised: you’ve either got it or you haven’t. He cannot have it in some situations but not in others. Putting on a red tie to appear in a Labour Party official promotional video sandwiched between Leo Brincat and George Vella to tell people to vote Labour is, coming from him, the act of a purcinell, and not of a man of integrity. It’s not so much his choice of vote as the charlatan showmanship, complete with – yes – red tie. I’m sorry, I can’t agree with you here. I like Louis Grech but I would never vote for him, because a vote for Louis is a vote for Labour and another scalp for that prat. The very thought of him crowing because Sylvia G voted Labour – honestly, il-vera tal-biki u tal-misthija.]

This guy could be his uncle.

“He even wrote in his letter that he is gay (I don’t know what that has got to do with his change of party).”

Maybe it was something to do with a peacock.

No, Helene, not simply “rabbits”, but half-skinned LIVE rabbits. It shows what sort of people they are.