undue influence, update

The local MP's constituency response just called me back. Without confirming nor denying the presence of a lawn sign, the gist of his response was:

[The MP] believe it is his personal decision to support any candidate, or not, at any government level, and whether he chooses any means to show his support (or not) at a given juncture does not have to justified to everybody or anybody.

Now I might be allocating a tone of arrogance or evasiveness, but I tried making sure I understook correctly what was being said when the poor guy said "Look stop trying to pick apart what I said so that you can turn it around to your advantage."

Anyway, this is a strange notion of accountability.