BEags,
Steady on Beags. Let's not go too far. Before long people could be using unjustifiable and unfair terms like 'underhand', 'political', 'brown-nosing', 'second rate' and 'c***', as they may have done about other DPRs.
I can't see it myself and strictly limited myself to an observation purely relating to his performance as DPR. Otherwise I prefer 'nobility', 'integrity', 'high calibre', 'well liked', 'respected', 'highly efficient', 'popular' etc.......