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Leading figures from the left and centre left gather for progressive alliance discussion
Tuesday, 05 July 2016
Leading figures from the left and centre left gather for progressive alliance discussion Cable, Lewis and Lucas to speak at public meeting about 'alliance-building' on the left Leading figures on the centre left and left of British Politics will hold a public meeting today (Tuesday...
Compass has today written an open letter to the new Labour leader with 12 suggestions for how they could use their office to to build firm foundations for the political transformation of our country. The open letter addresses the three main powers that the leader will have to develop if it wants...
Reacting to Labour's heavy defeat Neal Lawson, chair of the Compass pressure group has said:
For Labour this has been five wasted years. It’s gone backwards in terms of seats and has failed to build any foundations for future renewal The Labour crisis is now cultural and existential A...PRESS RELEASE
Contact: Neal Lawson: 07976 292 522
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Two-Year Education Commission Launches the Notion of Big Education
On the same day that the Shadow Education Secretary will say that he wants to move away from 'the...
Contact: Neal Lawson: 07976 292 522
SOMETHING’S NOT RIGHT: MAJOR NEW REPORT ON INSECURE BRITAIN Britain has become a '5-75-20 society' Download Something’s Not Right: insecurity and an anxious nation
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"Labour can never win on who kicks down hardest on the poorest. In a world of increasing job insecurity and precariousness conditionality makes less sense.
More means testing just erodes the notion of universal social security when we need it more than ever. The young are the victims of this...
Election Response: Chickens coming home to roost for Westminster bubble
Responding to the UKIP surge Neal Lawson, Chair of good society pressure group Compass said:
"There has been shocking complacency over the rise of UKIP. Taking on UKIP isn't about calling them racist or even dissecting...A statement from the Compass[i] pressure group argues that the Falkirk selection is a symptom of a much deeper political malaise because none of the traditional, mainstream political parties are thriving today.
The statement calls for an end to the command and control era of party politics,...
New polling research shows the public are hugely sceptical about the main political parties ability to fundamentally change their lives. The polling also shows that the public overwhelmingly want the main political parties to be less tribal and less closed in the way they interact with...
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We responded to this week's announcement that a future Labour government would means test the winter fuel allowance and child benefit by arguing that it is those in poverty that will suffer most if benefits become more and more targeted. We believe that the concept of universalism is essential...
The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.
Antonio Gramsci: Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1971)
The old party political system of Britain is creaking to a standstill. Last...