Is Louis Grech saying here that he put the interests of the national airline above the interests of the nation and its people?
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January 7, 2013 at 5:42pm
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Reply to Jozef Click here to cancel reply
Yep.
And his management prowess is put into perspective with that claim.
This man cannot remember how he voted; he cannot remember his principles.
He remembers how he voted. He couldn’t remember what justification he’d given.
Nice, eh? He voted, and then cast around for a reason. Some man of principle they’ve got there.
Airmalta survived and appears to be on the way to a recovery of sorts.
The financial services sector has continued growing steadily since we joined the EU, so Malta did manage to retain its competitive advantages in this particular case.
What else did he say?
Ah yes, the timing of Malta’s entry in the EU. Whilst certain aspects of our accession could have been negotiated better, I think that there is widespread acceptance that the country got considerably more than the paltry sum that used to be quoted by Joe Muscat’s predecessor.
So, Labour’s new star was wrong on every count.
I do hope that Mr. Grech sorts out the logic behind his decision-making processes by the time he is in a position to make decisions on behalf of the country.
He says he wasn’t aware whether government was doing its bit regarding Airmalta.
Isn’t that why Richard Cachia Caruana was grilled? Tsk tsk.
I’m no spring chicken myself but I can’t help observing how old and tired Louis Grech looks.
With all those bright young things supposedly thronging the “Moviment”, did they really need a Kartanzjan holder to be their new face?
Don’t knock it, baby.
Politicians were getting younger than me until this old goat trotted out.
Joseph needed somebody with ‘presence’, an acceptable and inoffensive looking figure, after he showed the bumbling Mr. Goon the door.
Mind you, any person who expouses Labour policies is inherently suspect, despite his looking benign and cultured.
How can any decent person feel comfortable rubbing shoulders with people whose history is littered with violence?
Even so, the adage one swallow does not a summer make, can be transposed to Louis, ie one mild mannered person, does not an acceptable party make.
Do you have a Kartanzjan?
Kartanzjan and all, I bet he can still perform. Think DSK and Sean Connery rolled into one.
Not really. As Daphne wrote in her column for The Malta Independent on Sunday, Louis Grech made his political choice in the 60s when as president of the (University) SRC (student representative council) he used to parade in Che Guevara uniform — cap, beard and all.
It was all hip and romantic then to admire Che, but an Air Malta golden handshake later, you can’t blame him for having a political axe to grind.
The worst sort of Left winger then. A cultural Marxist as a youth and a champagne Socialist later. Disgusting. Not blame him? This shyster with swept-back bunchy CEO hair is a threat to Western civilisation.
Dan diga mhux qed jaqbel ma’ hafna decizjonijiet li ha l -partit, fosthom li l-partit Laburista baghat lil Franco Debono min flok lil Anglu Farrugia ghad dibattitu ma’ Simon Busuttil.
Will Louis Grech tell us why he accepted a golden handshake from Air Malta if he was so worried about the airline?
Simples, as Aleksandr Orlov is fond of saying.
He’s worried because he’s planning on another handshake, diamond this time though.
And those nasty Nats forced him to take the golden settlement, so that wasn’t his fault.
When the Brazil issue had surfaced, I had sent you a “guest post” which you published, in which I explained why the PL was not fit for purpose, especially when it comes to the financial services industry.
Louis Grech’s own comments continue to prove me right. He says that one of the main reasons why he felt we should have stayed out of the EU is to protect our financial services industry. What a lack of foresight he had. Malta’s EU membership and the adoption of the Euro were crucial and indispensable for the growth of the industry.
I remember that at the time I was looking for a job with the Big4 accountancy firms. One of the partners had asked me how I thought the EU would change the financial services industry. I can’t believe I had more of a foresight than our future Vici Priministru.
What a pity these people are going to set the policy which will decide our future.
Touching his nose and mouth shrugs – two basic show tell signs that he has no confidence in what he’s saying.
It was in his personal interest and also in the interest of his Labour friends within Airmalta to put the national airline above the interests of the nation and its people.
Dawn kienu qishom xi Alla’t tal-pajjiz u kellhom pagi enormi.
Semplici porter kien idahhal LM 19,000 fis sena (kollha ta’ Wistin Abela Taz-Zejtun) mela ahseb u ara min kien imlahhaq x’kien idahhal! Overtime bla razan anke meta ma’ kienx ikun hemm xoghol. Serq bla control minn l-Air Supplies.
Izda kollha saru nies minn fuq daharna u minn fuq dahar il-pajjiz. Ahseb u ara Louis Grech u l-bella kumanija x’kienu jdahhlu?.
Was he worried about Air Malta when he took that golden handshake to leave the company and then went back, only to leave with another?
He mismanaged something at a point when it was redeemable. Wonder what he can do now…….