Possible Clues:

• Cockney hurried, initially revealing name and rank
• It's not nice for new leader to come across a eyesore
• There's no holding a good man down? It's awkward
• Really describing a good man as offensive
• Brutish
• No way in — that's bad
• Unpleasant, and if you remove the top it's still unpleasant
• Not at all pleasant, this Janet Jackson offering
• Disagreeable onset of nettle rash in East End
• Not pleasant altogether and at last as well