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Honestly...

Asked, by the magazine, if Mr Corbyn would have been likely to attend the meeting if he was not Labour leader Mr Ali replied: “Without any doubt” adding “Jeremy is completely opposed to the EU

So why doesn't he have the courage of his convictions and join Boris! He's just a puppet of the left.

The problem Corbyn has is that he is eurosceptic, but the Parliamentary Labour Party is massively pro-EU.

So if he opposes the EU openly, the knives will be sharpened for him with even greater vigour inside his own party. He made a lot of people with big egos look very silly when he thrashed them in the Labour leadership election and I doubt very much whether they have forgiven or forgotten!

They'll knife him anyway before too long, he is just marking time.

Yes, but you see, that's my point.

He sold himself as Mr integrity. You know the whole "I'm not touched by this stuff, I'll just do what I think is right".

Yeah. Right. Mr Common Man. The person all those voters were hoping would take the politically correct broom out of the party's collective ass have been.. What... Deceived? Surely not!

Many people make the point that the job of their MP is to sometimes put their own private preferences aside for the communal good.

So when the likes of Duncan Smith, Gove, Johnson, Grayling and Fox follow their own minds they have principles, even though they are accused by others in the Tory party as wreckers and rebels. Yet when Corbyn drops his, alleged stance, to follow the party line he is an unprincipled loser.

I do love double standards.

Nah IDS and the rest were who they were and made not bones about it.

Corbyn, on the other hand, made out he was apart from the pack. The rebel who had always stood against the tide and said what he felt was right and done what he felt was right.

Now, perhaps, his followers are given to wonder how he would have voted on Afghanistan and Iraq and Libya if he had been in the hot seat.... Would Party Unity have been too important then too?

I don't really see double standards with the Tories who are working against the government. They have been openly anti EU for a long time and their voters knew that when they voted them in.

I never voted for Corby and I never would. But, then again, in my family (wife and children etc), the only person who didn't vote for Blair is me. The only one who doesn't feel betrayed over it. Because I never expected any better from him and I was not surprised when he did what he did.

Which is why I take a certain perverse pleasure in calling Corbyn out.