The pop star and Mr. Carter voiced concerns over the lack of integration with Facebook, but they left respecting Mr. Jobs's overall vision.
The born-again Respect quartet have spent the last 18 months working as an independent group on Bradford council, along with Mohammed Shabbir (Heaton), who left Respect with them in 2013.
Salya Shaban, 21, a politics student at Bradford University and a fixture on Galloway's open-top bus during the 2012 campaign, left Respect within six months of his election.
Despite leaving Respect, the five say they will continue to serve as councillors.
Chris Chilvers, the party's national secretary, said: "While we are obviously very sorry that Salma has decided to leave Respect, we would like to thank her for the great contribution she has made to Respect over the last decade.
Despite his senior position in the party, he said he didn't know anything about the five Bradford councillors leaving Respect, saying it was a "shame" because "they have proved themselves to be very capable".
If certain authors want to leave, we will respect their wishes".
Yes, in place of paying women fair wages, offering family leave, respecting their union rights or protecting poverty wage working women from sexual harassment @McDonalds is turning their "M" upside down.
One lesson I hope all will draw is that it's better to leave office respected for working for what they believed was the common good, rather than risk being driven out, repudiated and humiliated, by their own people.
This type of listening has the potential to leave people respected, understood, whole, and alive.
