Working together for a fairer, more equal, democratic and sustainable Sussex
What we've been up to in 2024 - here's our Christmas Newsletter
25 January 2025
Join Us at Or Next Coffee With Politics Morning
25 January - 10.00-12.30
Conerstone Community Centre
Booking essential
The Climate Crises: Are Local and National Policies Up to the Challenge?
Sian Berry, Brighton Pavilion Green MP
Emma Montlake, Environmental Lawyer and Founder of Love Our Ouse
The environment, Labour government policy, and progressive thinking. So much to consider.
- What are the implications of Brighton & Hove Council's recent Decarbonisation Pathways Study?
- How can the government balance the national need for new energy sources with local desires for preserving pristine natural areas?
Join us to discuss the environment from a national and local perspective.
Click here to sign up to our Mailing List. We will send an announcement of the event in early January, with a link to book.
A link to book will also be available here in the new year.
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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