Why I left Your Party
When a new left party was first floated as an idea, and it might be co-led by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana, I was very excited. The Greens had not yet elected Zack Polanski as leader and were a much smaller electoral force. I left the Labour Party when Rebecca Long-Bailey was removed from the shadow cabinet, and I saw where Starmer was beginning to take the party. The subsequent purge of the left, the removal of the whip from Corbyn, support of Israeli genocide, and the crushing of freedom of speech and protest that has taken place since has proved my prediction to be correct. Your Party seemed like a promising new party to absorb the left that had been kicked out of or chose to abandon Labour. Not only this, but it was seen by many as a vehicle for uniting the numerous small radical socialist groups across the UK that cannot offer any influence on mainstream politics in their fractured state. YP could have been a popular front of sorts, bringing together all the different tendencie...
