I’ve been a member of Compass since it was founded. I think it usually has interesting things to say, but is all too often swayed by populism and enjoys too well it’s stance of defiant leftism, without properly backing it up.

I was balloted today by Compass on whether they should support an anti-Tory tactical vote. I voted no. Not because I have a problem with people in Tory/LD marginals voting tactically, but because I don’t think any organisation that purports to be of the left – and indeed merged with the largely union supported Catalyst – should be supporting the anti-union Lib Dems.

The challenge for the left should not be just how to stop the Tories, but how to make future progressivismwork, and I can’t see that working without the Unions. Not in a way that protects the most vulnerable. This ballot is a distraction from the more complex work of trying to build a progressive choice that does enshrine union rights while taking on board the best of what the Lib Dems have to offer.

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