Shameless – there goes the tal-pepe’s once-favourite pseudo-liberal, who voted No to EU membership and then became an MEP on the strength of their votes
I began watching Super One’s broadcast of Louis Grech’s speech to the Labour mass meeting, and switched off after five minutes.
I was disgusted.
The man is utterly shameless.
Gej bil-politika tal-firda tal-passat when he sat it out as Air Malta boss through one Nationalist administration after another, taking a golden handshake and then returning under Sant’s Labour government and being kept on when the new government was elected.
Firda? The man was elected to the European Parliament in 2009 on the strength of votes from the tal-pepe crowd who refused to see that a vote for ‘Louis (he’s so good)’ was a vote for Labour. Some of them even gave cringe-making testimonials for him in embarrassing promotional videos.
And now here he is, 66 years old this month, undergoing chemotherapy for cancer, and still trying to get his Mintoffian candidate into the prime minister’s chair, in the fond hope that he might see a few more Golden Years of Mintoff before the Grim Reaper comes calling.
Harsh? You haven’t heard the half of what I said in private. Imissek tisthi, Louis. You could have had the common sense to bow out of public life with a bit of dignity, but the mere thought of power is a terrific magnet, isn’t it.
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What you might have overlooked is that whilst Louis Grech was holding on to his Air Malta chair, he was also given a directorship on the Board of Malta International Airport (MIA)
This guy goes beyond milking the cow. He milked it, killed it, revived it, milked it again, dissected the cow whilst milking it, barbecued it, ate it and then shagged the neighbouring farm’s cows one by one.
That’s why he’s into politics.
Cows? Surely secretaries?
The truth is he was never really in with the authentic in set. His wife, yes. Perhaps the yearning to be truly in at some point in his life, even for a short while, took over.
To be part in, but clearly out, is an uncomfortable position: people like Louis feel this because despite everything else – and despite being accepted by those around them – it is they themselves who always feel one notch shorter when it comes to society in Malta. This is evident from their behaviour, talk, posture and the hunger for higher positioning in their eyes.
Oh, to bring Malta down that one notch?
Let us not forget that Louis schemed with il-Guy (since before 2010) and Joseph Muscat to get rid of Anglu Farrugia and during this time Toni’s drug-trafficking cover up had already happened. Louis and il-Guy didn’t scheme to get rid of Toni – how interesting. Perhaps because Toni sought his own back-up?
Let us also not forget that Joseph approached specific groups of like and same to join his movement.
Just as Joseph has revealed quasi-nothing as to his policies,
he has similarly not revealed everyone that he has been working with.