NO MORAL COMPASS.....

Compass got it blindingly, spectacularly wrong on the desirability of a Lib-Lab pact. As you would expect from a group led by the chattering classes with no base at all outside the metropolitan elite. I am profoundly relieved that the overwhelming majority of the Party, right across the spectrum, from left to right and centre, saw the foolishness and danger of the coalition called for by Neal Lawson, Polly Toynbee et al. But there was one bit of this otherwise nonsensical mutual suicide pact of "progressive coalition" which these two got absolutely right. As follows.......


If the Liberal Democrats enter a formal coalition with the Conservatives or prop up a minority Conservative government then they will lose for a generation and probably forever the right to call themselves a party of progress. The party would be split and Labour, if it gets its act right on the issue of proportional voting, Trident, tuition fees, fair taxes, immigration, civil liberties and much more, could eat up the thousands of Liberal Democrat activists and millions of Liberal Democrat voters.
On Thursday, at least 57% of the British people voted for parties seen as being on the centre left. The next few days will determine whether that perception was right.
Neal Lawson is Chair of Compass. Richard Grayson is Vice-Chair of the Liberal Democrat federal policy committee and was Liberal Democrat director of policy 1999-2004