"It didn't really matter which way you voted, things didn't change." Listen to our Deputy Director Lena Swedlow talk to @laurabeveridge.bsky.social on @politicsjoe.bsky.social about our latest paper - and how mass inequality in Britain led to the rise of Reform.

"It didn't really matter which way you voted, things didn't change." Listen to our Deputy Director Lena Swedlow talk to @laurabeveridge.bsky.social on @politicsjoe.bsky.social about our latest paper - and how mass inequality in Britain led to the rise of Reform.

Primaries are a common experience all over the world - but Britain's political parties like their candidates chosen by a select few in smoke-filled rooms. Changing that could be key to a political reset, writes Pablo John. Read here👇 www.compassonline.org.uk/who-does-the...

🛑Closing Monday: we're hiring a Digital Engagement Officer! Apply now before the deadline.

This week our Deputy Director, Lena Swedlow, sat down with @laurabeveridge.bsky.social at @politicsjoe.bsky.social to discuss how Britain's electoral system is broken and why we need proportional representation immediately - drawing on our new research, Lifting the Lid. Watch it in the link below!

In the more than decade I have had the privilege of serving as your MP for Norwich South, I don’t think I have ever attended a meeting quite as moving as the one we held in Parliament this week. 🧵

The Government needs to realise more regulation won’t fix our broken water system. We need to kick financial predators out & take it back into public control. But don’t just take it from me. Listen to a sewage campaigner who inspired Channel 4’s ‘Dirty Business’. @windrushwasp.bsky.social

Find @chris1bowers.bsky.social's speech from the Conference here: www.compassonline.org.uk/are-the-lib-...

🔶🕊️It was a real pleasure to speak with @rozsavage.bsky.social, @laylamoran.bsky.social, @carlcashman.bsky.social & @chris1bowers.bsky.social on Saturday to a packed room. A thoughtful conversation on what a progressive future could look like for the Lib Dems. @libdems.org.uk Spring Conference

🏡Rent too high? Can’t get on the housing ladder? It’s partly because of First Past the Post. New research shows homeowners are favoured by FPTP, while renters are made politically invisible. More evidence that the toxic effects of FPTP reach far beyond polling day.

🏡Rent too high? Can’t get on the housing ladder? It’s partly because of First Past the Post. New research shows homeowners are favoured by FPTP, while renters are made politically invisible. More evidence that the toxic effects of FPTP reach far beyond polling day.

🔶🕊️Looking forward to joining @compassoffice.bsky.social at @libdems.org.uk conference to explain why LibDems need to be more progressive. Saturday 14/03 | More here: www.compassonline.org.uk/events/compa... @laylamoran.bsky.social @carlcashman.bsky.social @rozsavage.bsky.social

We're hiring! 👋 Skilled at crafting digital communications that motivate people to take action? Apply to become our new Digital Engagement Officer: www.compassonline.org.uk/compass-is-h...

🔶🕊️Are the LibDems a progressive Party? Delighted to announce @rozsavage.bsky.social will be joining @laylamoran.bsky.social, @carlcashman.bsky.social & @chris1bowers.bsky.social to discuss this crucial question. LibDems Spring Conference Fringe | 14/03: compassonline.org.uk/events/compa...

Unite's decision to slash its funding for Labour is beyond a warning signal. It is an existential indicator for the Labour Party. They need a significant change in direction. Compass in @thetimes.com.

🌊Fantastic to see another council call for Thames Water to be brought back into public hands! The public should decide what happens to our water, not shareholders! Swindon Borough Council is now one of a dozen councils standing up for what 82% of the public want.

Our electoral system has led to voters up and down the country being ignored for decades - and now the system is breaking. Our new report shows the direct link between First Past the Post and a possible Farage victory in 2029.

🔶🕊️Are the LibDems a progressive Party? Join us at the @libdems.org.uk Spring Conference fringe to hear from @laylamoran.bsky.social, @carlcashman.bsky.social & @chris1bowers.bsky.social as they set out their progressive vision for the party. More here: www.compassonline.org.uk/events/compa...

Our electoral system has led to voters up and down the country being ignored for decades - and now the system is breaking. Our new report shows the direct link between First Past the Post and a possible Farage victory in 2029.

💩The scandal of privatised water is an issue Labour can’t wash away. We’ve been working with @weownit.org.uk and councillors like @jamesmcash.bsky.social to pass motions across the region; because the public, not shareholders, should decide on our water. Agree? actionnetwork.org/forms/water-...

💩The scandal of privatised water is an issue Labour can’t wash away. We’ve been working with @weownit.org.uk and councillors like @jamesmcash.bsky.social to pass motions across the region; because the public, not shareholders, should decide on our water. Agree? actionnetwork.org/forms/water-...

🌊Fantastic to see another council call for Thames Water to be brought back into public hands! The public should decide what happens to our water, not shareholders! Swindon Borough Council is now one of a dozen councils standing up for what 82% of the public want.

💥 Professor Vernon Bogdanor writes for @financialtimes.com: "An electoral system should do two things: ensure that the majority rules and that significant minorities are adequately represented. First Past the Post achieves neither."

Make no mistake: these aren't fines but forced investment in infrastructure. Investment is great, it's needed, but it shouldn't take legal action for water companies to do their actual job. Public ownership is the only option. The arguments against are drying up.

👇Some stunning analysis in the thread below showing where 2024 Labour voters are going (hint: it's not all Reform!). It's clear the progressive majority exists: but we need to harness it.

📝OUT NOW In 2029, Reform UK could win on under 30% of the vote according to some polls. Our new research paper shows our voting system has a hand in this. Read more & find out why electoral reform is not a nice-to-have, but an emergency. #ukpolitics #PR #FPTP #VotingSystem

📝OUT NOW In 2029, Reform UK could win on under 30% of the vote according to some polls. Our new research paper shows our voting system has a hand in this. Read more & find out why electoral reform is not a nice-to-have, but an emergency. #ukpolitics #PR #FPTP #VotingSystem

🧨“The Government’s refusal to look at Proportional Representation is dangerously short-sighted.” Brendan O'Hara MP eloquently warns of the possibility that Reform may win majority power in 2029 on barely 30% of the vote if #FirstPastThePost stays. #ElectoralReform #Democracy

OUT NOW: New research reveals the link between First-Past-the-Post and the rise of Reform UK. Read our paper ‘Lifting the Lid on Britain’s Pressure-Cooker Politics’ by Stuart Donald.

OUT NOW: New research reveals the link between First-Past-the-Post and the rise of Reform UK. Read our paper ‘Lifting the Lid on Britain’s Pressure-Cooker Politics’ by Stuart Donald.

Inequality in Britain is rampant, writes @pollytoynbee.bsky.social, and has become so with the help of our electoral system. Our new research paper, 'Lifting the Lid', links our fragmenting voting system to mass regional deprivation, and regional deprivation to the all-powerful nature of FPTP.

✍️We're hiring! Compass is looking for a Digital Engagement Officer. If you're good with everything online and supporter-facing - mailings, social media - then we want to hear from you! 👇Click below to apply (deadline March 23rd at 5pm) www.compassonline.org.uk/compass-is-h...

The Spring Statement was another chance for this Labour Government to seize the narrative - instead it just proved confusing. Compass in the @politics.mirror.co.uk.

🧨“The Government’s refusal to look at Proportional Representation is dangerously short-sighted.” Brendan O'Hara MP eloquently warns of the possibility that Reform may win majority power in 2029 on barely 30% of the vote if #FirstPastThePost stays. #ElectoralReform #Democracy

This one specific outcome would bring about a case for the nationwide Progressive Alliance that exists in Britain. Green-Lib-Lab-SNP-Plaid majority. The ideas are separate but there can be a common goal and it needs to be found in our fragmented era of multi-party politics.

📜 The House of Commons just debated the Representation of the People Bill 💥 Great to see more Labour MPs joining the call for a National Commission on Electoral Reform 📺 @patrickhurley.bsky.social @catsmithmp.bsky.social @chriscurtis94.bsky.social & @jamesnaish.bsky.social 🌹 #Labour4PR

"The Westminster system is crumbling. Labour must rebuild it – or we will find ourselves under the rubble." ✍️ Beccy Cooper MP & Tim Roca MP 🌹 #Labour4PR #ElectoralReform #Democracy @drbeccycoopermp.bsky.social @timrocamp.bsky.social @politics.co.uk www.politics.co.uk/mp-comment/2...

Things change slowly, and then very quickly. @meganekenyon.bsky.social and @peterkellner.bsky.social joined us last night to dissect the result of Thursday's by-election in Gorton & Denton. Out now 👇

Reminder that this is happening at 6pm for members!

The Gorton & Denton result is a huge win for progressives. But for the sake of securing a progressive majority in 2029, we must heed its wider lessons too. As Neal Lawson argues: in a broken two-party system, First Past the Post risks splitting the progressive vote and letting Reform in.

There is appetite in Britain for a bold, progressive agenda. This spectacular Green victory shows that. Now's the time to get it done. Compass in The Mirror @politics.mirror.co.uk.

🗳️"Last night’s seismic Gorton & Denton by-election result is the final nail in the coffin of a politics that kisses right and punches left." Director Neal Lawson for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social on how Labour's hyper-factionalism is in its final throes.

Congratulations to Hannah Spencer on her brilliant by-election win in Gorton & Denton. A victory for radical hope - and warning to Labour: chasing Reform now comes with real competition on the left. It also confirms the chaos #FPTP creates in a multi-party age - and what progressives must do next.

The case for a left pluralism has never been stronger - it's why Compass opened its ranks to Greens, Lib Dems and all progressives in 2011. Joe Todd's article in The Guardian is a shining diagnosis of how we need to come together.

🎙️LIVE: Whatever happens, tomorrow’s Gorton & Denton election results will shape the narrative on Labour’s leadership, the Greens’ rise and Reform’s threat. Join us live with @newstatesman1913.bsky.social’s @meganekenyon.bsky.social and political commentator Peter Kellner to unpack it all.

'The Good Society' Author @profkepickett.bsky.social is speaking at this event tomorrow at 6:30pm - in the same place we held out book launch with her last week! Sign up for a ticket on the link now!

The crisis of everything demands everyone. We're driving the ideas and power in civil society needed to create a hopeful and transformative vision for the country - to beat not just Reform, but the causes of Reform. Join us: action.compassonline.org.uk/all_hands_on...

"And the next election under first past the post, if it stays anything like that, is just going to be chaotic... So we've got to bring in proportional representation." Compass Director Neal Lawson on the need for PR on Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips on @skynewsrss.bsky.social.

TONIGHT: With the upcoming release of our newest paper on the link between Reform's support, inequality and FPTP, author Stuart Donald joins us and @makevotesmatter.bsky.social's @emmacampaigner.bsky.social to discuss the urgent need for electoral reform!

"And the next election under first past the post, if it stays anything like that, is just going to be chaotic... So we've got to bring in proportional representation." Compass Director Neal Lawson on the need for PR on Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips on @skynewsrss.bsky.social.