Blogger and the prime minister's communications adviser Glenn Bedingfield has hit out at a Facebook post written by the daughter of two Nationalist exponents after she urged him to leave her alone.
"Rachel Thake is grown up enough to call Labour voters rats. She chose to enter the political fray by calling us rats. Now she wants to be left alone?" Mr Bedingfield asks in his blog post.
"While she wants us to leave her alone because she has nothing to do with her parents’ political roles, she mentions my daughter, who is 11 and the Prime Minister’s children who are eight years old who not only they have nothing to do with our political roles, but never hurled insults to the Opposition or its supporters. They are not even old enough to have a Facebook profile."
The 22-year-old, daughter of PN general secretary Rosette Thake and Radio 101 presented David Thake, has been in the line of fire since March when she uploaded a Facebook post saying: "you would be very happily vote for these rats".
Thake wrote: “First and foremost, I do not expect a reply. I’d rather this gets to you and maybe you think twice about your actions for the sake of your children, family members, followers, listeners and also your political party”.
Mr Bedingfield asked Ms Thake to clarify what did she really mean by "think twice".
Rachel and David Thake."Are our children and other family members in any danger? What are the consequences our children and family members will pay if we don’t shut up?
Why does she feel more special than our children, much younger than Ms Thake who have been the subject of criticism and targeted attacks by (blogger) Daphne Caruana Galizia and her trolls over the past years?"
He said Labour MPs' children had been in the line of fire, irrespective of their age.
"If there’s a political bully it is her father, who must have had a say in all of this. It is his style. He insults, denigrates, calls names and makes icky comments about people and even has the nerve to call them without preemption to bully them on the air."
Mr Bedingfield also hits out at Times of Malta for "never having uttered a word" against Ms Caruana Galizia's "hate blog", which digs and delves into private lives with most intimate details divulged for the public domain.
"Not only The Times keeps mum, but lets Daphne pull the strings at Allied Group," he claims.
Mr Bedingfield's decision to start blogging while holding a job at the Office of the Prime Minister has triggered off accusations of breaching basic ethics.