The latest outburst on the social media by Labour journalist, turned MEP, turned adviser, turned administrator of PQs in the Office of the Prime Minister (with time to trudge next to heads of government at the migration summit) is not a surprise.

Glen Bedingfield simply cannot keep his mouth shut and fails to realise that, in his position, he should not be saying such things in public. He does not understand that he should not be crossing this line given that he is paid out of the taxpayers’ pockets. Neither should he be allowed to have a programme on a political radio station in which Labour’s political opponents are constantly denigrated, but that’s something that is beyond his (and Labour's) understanding of what ethics are all about.

One does not expect better from Bedingfield. When ignorance is accompanied by arrogance, the concoction is despicable.

But the blame is not his.

It is the Prime Minister’s – because it is Joseph Muscat who gave him a desk at Castille.

Joseph Muscat knows Bedingfield, and he knows that Bedingfield is the opposite of what a person should be in the position he occupies – tactful. And so Joseph Muscat should never have given Bedingfield the job.

Now that, more than once, Bedingfield’s behaviour on the social media has been crude, disrespectful and shameful, Joseph Muscat must take responsibility.

Now that Bedingfield has proven to be unfit for purpose, Joseph Muscat should tell him to pack and go. If he doesn’t, the PM will continue to lose more of the little credibility that he has left.

Bedingfield has behaved irresponsibly more than once. He thinks he’s witty, but his comments expose his spite against anyone or anything who dares to be against his beloved Labour Party.

The incident on his parking tickets, his comparing Islam to Nazi, and his attempt to ridicule a political opponent by calling him Humpty Dumpty were all matters that individually should have seen his dismissal or forced resignation.

The fact that the Prime Minister retained Bedingfield in an office close to his after each incident mentioned above, makes Joseph Muscat an accomplice in these shortcomings.

As if this was not already enough, Glenn has now come up with his public attack of the Archbishop, Church and priests in general.

If Bedingfield wanted to behave on the social media the way he continues to behave, then the Prime Minister should not have appointed him to the post he holds at OPM; or Bedingfield should have been man enough to turn it down.

But standards are not part of Muscat’s and Bedingfield’s dictionary.