I try to avoid looking too obsessed by Compass, honestly I do. But today Compass has been singularly unhelpful to the Labour Party, which it purports to support, by reopening the question of the Party Leadership, as reported in today's Guardian. Their timing could not be more destructive – on the day of the final Queen’s Speech before a General Election, and just as the first tentative steps t...

The centre-left group, Compass, announced last month that they would be having a conference in February to decide whether to open membership to those not in the Labour Party. This follows their foolish decision to endorse tactical voting for the Lib Dems in the general election. This is the response from Compass Youth By Cat Smith,

If these election results and the political events of the last week don’t wake up the Labour leadership, nothing will. Both are truly shocking. Worse still, they are largely self-inflicted. For five years Compass has been agitating for a change in Labour’s direction. We could see the consequence of sticking to New Labour’s chosen course: inequality

Today Compass, the influential left of centre pressure group, has warmly welcomed the election of Sam Tarry as Chair of Young Labour. His election represents a clear break from both the Blairite and Brownite wings of the Labour Party. Sam who is also Chair of Compass Youth is an ardent campaigner and advocate for Labour's traditional values of equality and democracy and his election bodes wel...

In connection with the Compass project "How To Live In The 21st Century", two submissions have been made by the Dronfield Labour Party Discussion Group. These can be found on the appropriate Compass web-site if you click onto the following - "Political Education, Political Education, Political Education" and "Integrated Transport" COMPASS MEMBERS CAN VOTE FOR THESE SUBMISSIONS AS WINNERS - Never m...

I am usually more libertarian in these political compass questionnaires: it must be a reflection on my grouchiness today! Still, it's nice to know I am a mainstream conservative and I am far less authoritarian than the fascist left within the Labour Party and LibDems are :-) My Political Views I am a right social moderate Right: 6.44, Libertarian: 0.84 Political Spectrum Quiz My Foreign Polic...

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...

This is about the fifth or sixth time I’ve done a political compass test and it always comes out pretty much the same - slightly right of centre libertarian. Technorati Tags: Political Compass

Yesterday evening I picked up the phone to follow up an eMail from a CLP secretary concerned about the Labour Party's priorities. A council by-election has been triggered by the death of a sitting Tory councillor. At the same time the CLP has just had its share of membership subscriptions sequestered by the Labour Party nationally to part-pay a flat-fee of £1,200 towards the costs of th...

The political blogsphere is currently dominated by discussion over the future of Gordon Brown and Labour. Tory bloggers are positively salivating at the prospect of winning the next General Election and some are predicting landslides and even the end of Labour with the Conservatives in power for a generation or more.Could the 2010 General Election mark a major shift in British politics with the en...