People who always sticks to their principles in all their actions are very rare,in any situation. People who bend their principles, but claim to be sticking to them are very common.

People who break their principles on occasion, but admit it, and still hold them as something to aspire to, are perhaps rarest of all.

There are elected politicians who are genuinely principled socialists - they only take what they need from their parliamentary salary, an ordinary working wage. The rest they pass on to where it is more needed.

But there's very few of them, sadly few - most take the money and hold onto it. That's where the break with principles come in, not in how they spend it. Some choose to spend that money sending their kids to expensive schools, while still living in a poor area among the people who elected them. More manage to have their cake and eat it, by buying expensive houses next to good quality state schools.

When politicians and media lefties who have made the second choice demonize Diane Abbott for making the first choice, as if there was any real difference - that is real hypocrisy. WE shouldn't be taken in by it.