For me, the acid test of whether someone is principled or not, is whether they will stand up for what they believe in, even when doing so is to their own detriment.
It's very easy to shout protests from the sidelines - something Jeremy has been doing his entire life - when there's no adverse consequences. Indeed, when you may even be "rewarded" for doing so by taking a populist position or being seen to knock the government and appeal to anti-government supporters. Any idiot can do that.
The real question is what position do you take when to tell the truth, to say what you *really* think, will very likely be unpopular and damage you in some way? When standing up for something you believe in is hard, what do you do - speak the truth, or duck, shirk, run away and hide or just downright lie?
I won't detail the many areas where he's gone hiding or simply lied, but off the top of my head we have his position on Trident and our nuclear deterrent, on shoot to kill, on the monarchy and respect thereof, on Brexit, on extensive nationalisation, on wage caps, on freedom of movement, even on his bloody dress sense FFS.
Corbyn has time and time again shown himself to be a hypocritical, two-faced, opportunistic, spineless worm who will say and do anything to further his own aims and bury anything which does not. He probably can't even spell "principled".
