Swale Borough Council provides district council services to an area of North Kent, including the Isle of Sheppey, the towns of Faversham and Sittingbourne and the surrounding rural hinterland. By…
16 Jun, 2022
Green Party
23 May, 2022
Inside story of 1997 Labour–Lib Dem deal – and how Starmer and Davey can do it better
Labour and the Lib Dems can beat the Conservatives if they heed the lessons of the 1997 election victory and work together more closely, says a new report from Compass.…
20 Oct, 2021
The Green Party’s Route to Alliance-based Power
The Green Party occupies a unique space that combines principle and pragmatism in the fight for a just transition. We must be both bold and humble in securing the power…
30 Sep, 2021
Will Labour Accept Sharing Power to Win? Caroline Lucas’s speech to Compass Labour Conference rally
Photo by Graham Simpson On Tuesday 28th September, Green MP for Brighton Pavilion Caroline Lucas spoke alongside Labour MP Clive Lewis, Labour for a New Democracy campaigner Laura Parker and…
20 Apr, 2021
Labour must work with others to defeat this dishonest Tory government
Photo by Number 10 on flickr. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Our prime minister lies, not just a bit but a lot. All of us lie, at least a bit, sometimes –…
09 Sep, 2020
Green choices – hard choices
Congratulations to Sian Berry and Jonathan Bartley for winning the leadership of the Green Party. But now the party has chosen its leaders and placed its trust, it must make…
04 Aug, 2020
What would Greta do?
Green Party leadership election: how can the party boost its influence on national politics? “I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. [...] And then I…
22 Jan, 2020
The Green Party needs a new way forward
It's not just Labour that needs a re-think after the 2019 general election result, argues Stephen Clark. Together with this article by Remco van der Stoep, a group of Green…
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…
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,…
16 Nov, 2018
A note on the Progressive Alliance
With all the talk of a possible general election it is worth reflecting on the possibilities for a Progressive Alliance. The Progressive Alliance (PA) reached maximum recognition at two points…