Another day brings another bizarre email piece of muppetry from Compass. Why are they running a "Labour Leadership Ballot"? They are not an affiliate so have no nomination rights. I presume that like all the other campaigning groups within the Party they have supporters of different leadership candidates in their ranks - in Compass' case quite likely all five. What does measuring the support do? W...
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LukeAkehurst on 29th Jul 2010 (via lukeakehurst.blogspot.com)
This is the speech given by Jon Cruddas MP to Labour Friends of Searchlight over the weekend Today we begin to discuss Labour’s journey of change. A party of organisers. Organising for a party of social justice and community. We have Hope not Hate, London Citizens, the Christian Socialist Movement Labour Neighbours Projects, Compass, and many examples
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SocialistUnity on 19th Jul 2010 (via socialistunity.com)
Richard Grayson (former head of policy for the party and one of the leading lights behind the Social Liberal Forum) has written a thoughtful pamphlet for Compass about the different strains of thought within the Liberal Democrats and what they mean for coalition government. The subtlety of some of Richard’s views mean you have to
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 12th Jul 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
Much of the debate on the deal between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats to form a coalition government has focused on how "strange" it was for the two parties to enter a partnership. In The Liberal Democrat Journey, published by Compass, Dr Richard Grayson details the transformation of the Liberal Democrats over the past decade and shows why the coalition is not all that alien.
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LiberalConspiracy on 9th Jul 2010 (via liberalconspiracy.org)
With so many interesting discussions throughout the day, it was rather disappointing Compass’s conference didn’t take place over a few days instead of the one. Central to the conference was the tribalism vs. pluralism debate.
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LiberalConspiracy on 15th Jun 2010 (via liberalconspiracy.org)
My Centre Right post on Friday, drawing attention to the apparent nostalgia for the USSR held by Compass Chairman Neal Lawson, drew some interesting reactions from lefties. One commenter denied the link, saying "Any nostalgia for the Eastern Bloc is...
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CentreRight on 14th Jun 2010 (via conservativehome.blogs.com)
Another month, another round up of new left and labour movement blogs: 1. Plot’s Plot (SSP) 2. Spirit Leveller (Labour/Compass) (Twitter) 3. Left Futures (Labour) (Twitter) 4. Planeshift’s Blog (Unaligned) 5. Aled-Dilwyn Fisher (Green) (Twitter) 6. Radical Wales (Unaligned) 7. Labour Uncut (Labour) (Twitter) 8. Zetkin.net (Labour) 9. Ed Miliband For Labour Leader (Labour) (Twitter) 10....
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SocialistUnity on 6th Jun 2010 (via socialistunity.com)
You may have noticed from my twitter feed that I am one of those comrades and colleagues in the Labour Party who believes that the front runners in the leadership contest already have plenty of nominations. Obviously the Parliamentary Party are in the chair on nominations. Them's the rules. But they'll be letting us down if they don't actually provide the wide choice that all the ca...
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ChrisPaul on 4th Jun 2010 (via chrispaul-labouroflove.blogspot.com)