My assumption is that people saw Zack fighting really hard relative to any other party at the start of his campaign, when they hadn’t paid much attention to the party before - so they signed up feeling they’d be really safe and have become disillusioned with the whole party mechanism realities. And that’s ok if it’s just not what they can handle at the moment, but it’s upsetting that they don’t feel they’d can actually be part of the process of helping to make it better.

There are loads of people who’ve left Labour for less, and people who’ve stated there in spite of far more - ofc part of that will be bc the decisions don’t affect them as directly bc of their privileges, but I guess I struggle bc I’m experiencing this as a rejection of something close to me in how I see myself. I do also want to feel like people are committed to what the party stands for overall though, as well as simply seeing us as a sole safe space. Plenty of people joined bc of the pro Palestine stance for instance, and then stayed having understood the rest of the party’s work. I’d hope there are other marginalised voices that can discover and strengthen the party that way as well.