Below is Caroline Lucas’ opening remarks at the Compass fringe event – ‘What if Labour can’t win alone?’ - at the 2019 UK Labour Conference in Brighton. Thank you –…
23 Sep, 2019
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How would a Good Society look and feel? And how do we move towards it? Read our blog, comment, share and get involved in the debate.
17 Sep, 2019
A Progressive Alliance vs A Rebel Alliance
Mark Perryman (editor of Corbynism From Below) argues that it’s a bottom up campaign that the opposition need to win. We can argue the case for and against tactical voting…
05 Sep, 2019
Let’s transform our dying democratic system, now.
We have woken up to the UK’s biggest democratic and political crisis of modern times. Our Government is not serving our Parliament. Our democracy is not serving us, the people.…
20 Aug, 2019
Compass’ assumptions: discussion
As progressives, our mission is to create a path out of our deep political and democratic crisis, built with meaningful hope. However, our progressive movement keeps failing to build from…
14 Aug, 2019
Political conjuncture series #1: Uncertain Terrain
The long-term trend away from the two-party model has been exacerbated by Brexit. First-past-the-post voting still artificially inflates support for Labour and the Tories, but we clearly live in a…
05 Aug, 2019
We must build an imaginative and pragmatic alliance
A Remain Alliance is not the same as a Progressive Alliance. That’s what we said when we were asked for our view on the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election and it’s…
02 Aug, 2019
Our politics is hitting rock bottom – what can we do about it?
Compass was recently invited to a roundtable hosted by Compassion in Politics, a campaign group formed in 2018 by Jennifer Nadel and Matt Hawkins out of a deep concern that values…
23 Jul, 2019
Is it Boris Johnson or is it us, the system and the culture?
We keep losing - because we keep reacting in the same way. No more! After Brexit and Trump we get the third instalment in the great moving-right-show: Boris Johnson. Take…
07 Jun, 2019
Peterborough – the birth place of the regressive alliance?
In a year’s time, will the Peterborough by-election be remembered by anyone outside of the town? The by-election in which the new right-wing kids on the block failed to make…
27 May, 2019
What the EU elections result means for our democracy (and for the Labour Party)
The European election results, when they came in, were bang on what had been predicted: the Brexit ‘Party’ triumphant, Labour and the Tories humiliated, the Lib Dems and Greens both…
08 May, 2019
A Progressive Alliance for the 2019 European elections? Compass says no.
Several of our members and supporters have been in touch to ask whether Compass will take the lead in a ‘progressive alliance’ campaign for the European elections in the UK,…
08 May, 2019
Talking Democracy: Texel and the Democracy Alive Festival
In late April the European Movement organised a festival of democracy (Democracy Alive) on the central square of Dan Burg on the island of Texel in the Netherlands. The organisers…