Working together for a fairer, more equal, democratic and sustainable Sussex
What we've been up to in 2024 - here's our Christmas Newsletter
22 March 2025
Join Us at Our Next Coffee With Politics Morning
22 March - 10.00-12.30
Conerstone Community Centre
Booking essential
It's the Economy, Stupid. Is Reeves Right? Is There an Alternative?
Polly Toynbee, Columnist, The Guardian, Author: The Only Way is Up: How to Take Britain from Austerity to Prosperity https://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/the-only-way-is-up/
Stewart Lansley, Author: ' The Richer, The Poorer: How Britain Enriched the Few and Failed the Poor'
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/stewart-lansley
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Coming Events - Coffee with Politics Mornings
10 May 2025 Social Care Options and Possibilities for Change - Speakers: Tristram Burden and Brian Fisher
19 July 2025 To be Determined
13 September 2025 So How's it Going Then? Reflecting on Labour's First 12 Months - Speakers: Mark Perryman and Mike Phipps (invited)
About Brighton and Hove Compass
Nationally and locally, Compass campaigns for the good society, one that is more equal, democratic, and sustainable. We believe that no single organisation or political party can create the good society. And that the main progressive parties have far more in common than differences. So, we need to develop new and radical collaborations to achieve a good society.
Brighton and Hove is an amazing creative and progressive place with a vibrant artistic, community and voluntary sector. A city with an great track record of campaigning that remains as alive as ever with Pride, Black Lives Matter and others. And we are fortunate to have a council with a progressive majority. But our city is also a place where wealth and extreme poverty, poor housing, low paid and seasonal work, and homelessness sit side by side so, when we re-launched our local Compass group in 2020, our priority was to support Brighton build back better after the pandemic. However, our local collaboration can only achieve so much without changing Britain’s centralised, short term and tribal political system. We believe that there are three key elements getting in the way:
- Our unfair electoral system
- Our tribal politics
- Our over centralised national and local political systems
We are:
- Campaigning to Win as One by reaching out to other progressives across Sussex to develop and network of local Compass groups and alliances. We will focus particularly in those constituencies where the majority of voters are progressive but, because of the first-past-the-post voting system, they fail to return a progressive MP.
- Exploring ideas, discussing issues and planning strategies. We do this at our bi-monthly coffee mornings and other events in Brighton and Hove.
Brighton and Hove Compass is coordinated by a volunteer steering group of seven.
Join Compass here https://action.compassonline.org.uk/. And email us locally at brightonhove@compassonline.org.uk
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