Education Minister Evarist Bartolo uploaded yet another political opinion on social media yesterday, this time weighing in on what he feels is distracting mudslinging by both parties.

In a status on his public Facebook account, Mr Bartolo described the two parties as “the pot and kettle”, engaging in partisan attacks at one another and overshadowing work being done for the electorate.

“The political season right now: the two parties are both caught up in trying to slam the other for being the dirtier: the kettle and the pot?” he wrote.

Mr Bartolo has taken to his Facebook account numerous times in recent weeks – using social media to express veiled, and at times less veiled, opinions on the political climate, mostly related to the Panama affair.

Let’s work and conduct ourselves properly

In this message Mr Bartolo wrote that, while the Labour Party did have defects, its “kettle” was a force of far more good than the Opposition’s pot which “always depicts itself as pure”.

Listing a number of the Labour administration’s achievements which had helped “those previously forgotten”, Mr Bartolo also sounded a warning to the PL.

“Let’s work and conduct ourselves properly to not jeopardise all we have achieved,” he said.

Mr Bartolo had first turned to social media to express his unease with the controversy surrounding Energy Minister Konrad Mizzi and the Prime Minister’s chief of staff, Keith Schembri, back on March 1.

Writing on his timeline, Mr Bartolo had posted a quote by Ġużè Ellul Mercer, a prolific leftist writer and once party deputy leader, from an article penned in 1929 entitled: Why I militate in the Workers’ Party.

“On days like these, I recall Ġużè Ellul Mercer’s words,” Mr Bartolo had written in the post, which was interpreted by Labour insiders as a direct dig at the Panama affair.

Then again last week Mr Bartolo wrote what was interpreted as his second reference to the Panama scandal. “When there is a storm, see how to seek shelter. Do not try to deceive yourself by blaming the barometer, or by tampering with it to claim the weather is fine,” he said.