TheOWOTrongle steps up to to speak

I have been in the Labour Party since 11th November 2018, I have been in the Press Team for over a year, I was Chief Whip for 4 months, I have been an acting Deputy Leader, I have been on the frontbench over 6 months combined, and I have been a minister briefly for a Labour Government. Yet only now I have been pushed out of the Labour Party. I have left because they have chosen to put ideology over unity, they are no longer the broad-tent party I joined. They are no longer the party the left deserves to unite behind. This is why I am forming the People’s Unity Party with my fellow colleagues, and so we can lift up Britain!

Gren_Grat then steps up

A party can never be right if it is always too quick to admit it's wrong. This is i think one of the flaws in the current Labour party, it refuses to stand up and fight for itself. It has been embroiled in so many scandals that it no longer seeks to win arguments but instead seeks to stay out of trouble. But is trouble not the reason for its being? Trouble in the sense of upsetting the established order in order to obtain progress. Conflict and discourse is necessary for a society to move forward. Without discourse we stagnate. That is what the people's unity party is, The party of discourse, the party of progress.

Finally SmashBrosGuys2933 steps up to speak

Ever since I was a small boy growing up in the Black Country, I have supported Labour. Even though I didn’t know anything about politics, I always knew that Labour is my party. My parents and grandparents are Labour voters and I grew up in a very Labour supporting area, so it was a no-brainer for me. However, upon joining the party and making my way up the ladder, I found out what Labour truly is. A party full of hungry, desire and untapped potential, but one that has become so spiteful and unwelcoming that it really rubs off on you, it certainly did with me. I’ve become known for my spats with the likes of BrexitGlory and Friedmanite in the Commons and whilst I do hold contempt for the Tories and Libertarians, my hatred went beyond the party affiliation and became a personal hatred. Labour is very much like a cult - when you’re in it, you are conditioned to think and feel and act a certain way and whilst I don’t regret my time in Labour, having made some great friends there and I respect all of my former colleagues, that place has become so horrible and toxic that it has driven out many a member, notably NadiaTheNarwhal, who was an MP and on her way to becoming a Shadow Cabinet minister, but was driven out due to the toxicity in the Labour Party.

Now that isn’t the reason I left. These are hindsight observations from someone who managed to break their addiction with Labour. I left because of what I’ll just refer to as “the two incidents” henceforth since I’m pretty sure everyone will know what I’m on about. First off, the first “incident”; I would like to apologise here, openly and honestly, I never meant anything at all by my comments. I was trying to construct an argument defending RedWolf177’s article and before I got a chance to finish my argument, I was forced to stop before I could make my point and was summarily ostracised from without and within the party. Then the second “incident” - this is the real reason I left the Labour Party. I was sacked from the Shadow Cabinet without my prior knowledge. Apparently, ThePootisPower (Labour’s Chairman) said publicly that I was going to be removed from the Shadow Cabinet, however he neglected to inform me of this and so when the new Shadow Cabinet was announced, I was fully expecting to remain there, maybe pushed back into my old role as the newly renamed Shadow Employment, Pensions and Welfare Secretary. But to my shock and horror, I found that I hadn’t been included and I received the explanation from ThePootisPower that I had been left out for press reasons, with no other explanation. This was at the same time that I was contacted by The Times to respond to my sacking, so I took the only reason I had been given and I ran with it. Whilst I now know that the real reasons were wrong, by this point I had not only hurt myself, but been publicly and openly humiliated by the leadership that I respected and even worked with when I was Chief Whip. So, as the Times article was written, I wrote my resignation letter to ARichTeaBiscuit and when the article was published, I handed in my resignation and I was gone. Probably the biggest fall from grace in political history was done. From Chief Whip, Shadow Transport Secretary and Shadow Leader of the House of Commons and a potential future Leader of the Labour Party, to nothing in the space of a month. I left because my dignity was gone. The respect I had gained from my time in the Commons and the Shadow Cabinet was smashed in front of me and I took the only opportunity left open to me - leave the party. That is #WhyILeft. Now, I am taking a leap into the unknown with a group of fellow disgruntled former Labour members in the People’s Unity Party. I don’t know where we’ll go from here, but as my friend DavidJohansson likes to say, things can only get better.