Competition for Stoop missing word

In a recent article I wrote the following:

 ‘Ever since he allowed to go through in the Explanatory note for national standards legislation, farcically incorrect statistics, Graeme Stoop has been deeply unpopular amongst primary teachers. There was only one statistic of significance in the Explanatory note and that was 56% put forward to represent the percentage of schools successfully collecting and using assessment information for literacy and numeracy. The statistic should have been 93% and 91% (from the 2007 review office report). What teachers have had to put up with over the last four years!'

 I then wrote: ‘This grey man, this bureaucratic plodder, with no recorded original ideas to his name and, in my view a …’

 Then I said: ‘A free Primary School Diary to any one who can guess the word I had in mind.’

 The response was free-wheeling. The following is a representative example:

 No-one sent in the word I had in mind, but three correspondents did send in the word I started with, but from which I then decided to go slightly down-market from there.

 Three people sent in sycophant, the word I first had in mind, so to those three people, the next booklet ‘Stories & Satires’ Part Two.

 M. on Sunday, 10 February 11.51 sent in: Lackey and sycophant along with the synonyms fawner and bootlicker.

 L. said ‘I love the chance to play with words, especially on a Sunday afternoon. My suggestion is sycophant: A servile self-seeker who attempts to win favour by flattering influential people.’

 And H. said: ‘Stoop the sycophant; Stoop the toady; fuscous Stoop (I had to go to the Thesaurus for fuscous but I think I’ll try to use it ten times this week.’

 G. well known in the Manawatu: ‘Not one word, but of course the obvious He Stoops to Conquer.’

 A well-known academic (no initial provided because you would immediately work out who it was) descends in appealing style to the nursery: ‘The only words that come to mind for your competition are Stooping Snoop or Snooping Stoop or Stoop-Poop.’

 A West Auckland principal in the same vein: ‘Instead a phrase … Stoop the droop with Dr Snoop!’

 A north of Auckland principal says: ‘He is a w… Kelvin!!! I’ll take your word for it ...

 M. says ‘Dare I suggest it might be …wipe.’ No you can’t you naughty girl. (Nevertheless, a free booklet for displaying just that quality.)

 A Hamilton principal restores the tone with: ‘Obsequious.’

 R. asks: ‘Is the word greaser.’ Close because it is at the level of colloquialism of my word.

 A highly revered Auckland principal closes the selection with: ‘Agree with you – yet more rubbishing of our work in the very public domain.’

 ‘My word for Mr S. would be: Pillock.’

 And my down-market word for sycophant was: crawler.