Compass want Lib Dems at its conference
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...
View ArticleLibLink … Stephen Tall: Help save Labour with PR? No thanks
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...
View ArticleTactical voting set for a boost?
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...
View ArticleOpinion: Neal Lawson and the Good Society
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...
View ArticleOpinion: The next big idea – humanity
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...
View ArticleOpinion: Labour’s preparations for the next hung parliament
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...
View ArticleCompass votes to let Liberal Democrats join as full members
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...
View ArticleThe Independent View: What now for any progressive alliance?
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...
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Plan C: The Social Liberal Forum’s economic prognosis
There has been a very welcome recent revival of policy thinking in the Liberal Democrats, despite the large cuts to the party’s official policy research staff. This has included a new think tank...
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Opinion: Make a clean break – You shouldn’t flirt behind your partner’s back
On Saturday evening at Brighton, I attended a meeting organised by the Social Liberal Forum (SLF) with the controversial title ‘Disengaging with the Tories before 2015′. A number of equally...
View ArticleOpinion: Creating a new Alliance
There has always been a need to blend parliamentary, representative politics with the social activism of extra parliamentary movements. Recent examples of informal action outside the confines of the...
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A Lib Dem route to victory: a case for a Progressive Alliance
The recent Richmond Park by-election was a huge victory for Liberal Democrats, further boosting our credibility and standing in the country with voters and the media. But it was also a great success...
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The Progressive Alliance Needs Mothers’ Voices
I am launching a group called ‘Mothers for a Progressive Alliance’ with the backing of Compass on Saturday 18 November in Central London and am inviting Lib Dem members to attend to contribute to the...
View ArticleRadical, distinctive and quite possibly the start of something big
How do we get off 8%? We’ve been at or around that figure in the polls since well before the 2015 election, and despite our very clear and principled stance on Brexit, we’re still stuck. Maybe we just...
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