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The Independent View: What now for any progressive alliance?

By Neal Lawson | Published 11th May 2011 - 2:47 pm

Rounding off our trio of post-election views from the other parties (see here and here), we have Compass’s Neal Lawson.

So what now for any progressive alliance? Let’s start with an honest assessment of the hole we are in. Labour is now as divided between pluralist and tribalists as it is between those who think the markets needs come before those of society and those who turned social democracy on it head under New Labour. Labour did OK in the North but badly in the South, it did OK in Wales and atrociously in Scotland. The Greens have …

Posted in Op-eds, The Independent View | Also tagged av referendum, chris huhne, ed miliband, social liberal forum, vince cable | 20 Comments

Compass votes to let Liberal Democrats join as full members

By Mark Pack | Published 26th February 2011 - 3:55 pm

We’ve covered in various forms the moves by the traditionally Labour pressure group Compass to reach out across party lines (such as in this guest post from its chair Neal Lawson and in this review by Paul Walter of one of his articles). Compass this week took a further step by opening up its membership:

68% of our members have voted in favour of constitutional amendments which end the rulings that restrict membership to those already in Labour or entitled to be so.

The vote represents a clear sign as to the future direction of progressive politics, a resounding

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Posted in News | Also tagged neal lawson | 12 Comments

Opinion: Labour’s preparations for the next hung parliament

By Paul Walter | Published 15th February 2011 - 4:44 pm

Compass have published a document written by Dr Mathew Sowemimo called “The next hung parliament – how Labour can prepare”.

Dr Sowemimo is co-founder of The Social Liberal Forum network, established in 2008 to promote progressive policies within the Liberal Democrat party. He joined the Labour party in September 2010.

This document is generally very encouraging and forward-looking. Dr Sowemimo identifies a list of areas which were important in the May 2010 post-election period, and from which Labour should learn. These include:

Tone – as in Cameron’s inclusive tone towards Clegg, compared with Brown’s dismissive attitude to Clegg.
Don’t destroy

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Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged coalition, labour, matthew sowemino | 20 Comments

Opinion: The next big idea – humanity

By David Boyle | Published 10th January 2011 - 10:25 am

The cacophony from Facebook, the blogosphere and all the rest of the Twitterati sometimes drives out what is most significant. But every so often someone writes something that you know is important for the future.

Neal Lawson is an indefinable character. His Compass campaign group is a fountain of new ideas designed to revitalise the Labour Party. He is no friend of the Liberal Democrats, but neither is an enemy or party to the destructive game of name-calling and innuendo that characterises the Labour campaign in Oldham East and Saddleworth.

I also believe his article in the Guardian, with a slightly …

Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged ed miliband, neal lawson | 12 Comments

Opinion: Neal Lawson and the Good Society

By Paul Walter | Published 8th January 2011 - 6:56 pm

On Comment is Free, Compass’ Chair Neal Lawson has outlined his ideas for the “good society” which he sees as a vision for the centre left. This follows on from an early December essay entitled “Welcome to New Socialism” in the New Statesman penned with John Harris, which I reviewed previously on Lib Dem Voice.

In his CiF article, Neal Lawson fleshes out his philosophy for the “good society” mentioning Aristotle and the need for a more meaningful existence beyond what he succinctly sums up as our “learn-to-earn-to-spend culture”.

The philosophical bit is all very laudable and nothing with which most …

Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged neal lawson | 5 Comments

Tactical voting set for a boost?

By Mark Pack | Published 30th April 2010 - 9:15 pm

Earlier this month I wrote,

For a long time after David Cameron’s election to leader of the Conservative Party there was widespread talk of “tactical unwind”, that is how his changes to the Conservative Party may result in much less anti-Tory tactical voting at the next general election. It’s one of the range of reasons that many Tories quote for believing that they will do better in terms of seat numbers than the overall vote numbers suggest.

However, what’s struck me for some time is how the overall political campaigning is playing out in a way that is likely to rewind the

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Posted in General Election | Also tagged tactical voting | 49 Comments

LibLink … Stephen Tall: Help save Labour with PR? No thanks

By Helen Duffett | Published 1st December 2009 - 3:09 pm

Compass, the left-leaning pressure group, has launched a campaign for a referendum on proportional representation. Music to the Lib Dems’ ears?

Lib Dem Voice’s own Stephen Tall explains today at Comment is Free why it’s not something we’ll be supporting as a party, this side of the General Election:

Labour has had 12 years in which to renew the democratic fabric of this country. They failed to do anything about it because, quite simply, they didn’t care enough about it. If they care now, it is only because it’s expedient to; and expediency is the worst possible motive for reform.

Stephen argues …

Posted in LibLink | Also tagged alternative vote, electoral reform, stephen tall | 8 Comments

Compass want Lib Dems at its conference

By Gavin Hayes | Published 2nd June 2009 - 3:43 pm

As a visitor to LibDemVoice you may or may not be aware of the work of Compass – the influential pressure group that campaigns for a more democratic, equal and sustainable world. Compass is about building a broadly based Liberal Left politics and as a Liberal Democrat activist we wanted to introduce you to our important work and to invite you to attend our National Conference on Saturday 13 June.

We believe that both the Tory and Labour leaderships want to turn back as soon as possible to the failed politics of the pre-crash – both in terms of the old economy …

Posted in The Independent View | Also tagged amnesty international, constitutional reform, demos, electoral reform, electoral reform society, evan harris, fawcett society, helena kennedy, john harris, jubilee debt campaign, make votes count, neal lawson, oxfam, polly toynbee, richard grayson, social liberal forum | 14 Comments

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