It would be unfair to ascribe this entirely to his long-standing Labour party membership.
Long-standing Labour opponents of reform, like Roy Hattersley, have changed sides.
Perhaps we'll never know – surely he's not related to long-standing Labour peer Lord Falconer?
Long-standing Labour MPs spot left-wing faces at local constituency meetings they have not seen for 20 years.
The Shetland News columnist and teacher Genevieve White, a long-standing Labour voter, said: "I was pretty surprised to hear about Alistair Carmichael's part in the leak.
Also today the long-standing Labour critic of Middle East policy, Glasgow MP George Galloway, arrives in Iraq for a personal fact-finding mission.
I have met a few, enthusiastically trooping into Corbyn events, and also spoken to long-standing Labour party people being driven quietly mad by their trademark displays of righteous belligerence.
She says: "A lot of people who care about tackling unemployment, who care about public services, who care about fairness and inequality, and who basically have been long-standing Labour [supporters] did stop voting Labour or leave over the Iraq war.
A destructive feature of the past year has been the emergence of a puritan ideology that casts many long-standing Labour members and MPs beyond the pale – as if any disagreement with Mr Corbyn is a betrayal of the true path.
Ewan Gibbs of the University of West Scotland, a long-standing Labour supporter, has simply been told that he has "publicly shown support for other parties on Facebook".
"It is clear that latent forms of [the hardline] Militant are on the rise and are being allowed to undermine long standing, disciplined, sensible, organised Labour.
