Members back crackdowns on MPs and empty homes, but won't be nudged into shares

The day's clearest message from refnation members was a demand for scrutiny of the powerful, and a flat refusal to be steered with their savings. Members voted overwhelmingly for investigating MPs whose wealth soars while in office, with Yes voters insisting that transparency is no accusation. In the same breath, they overwhelmingly rejected cutting the tax-free Cash ISA allowance to push savers towards shares, one voter preferring "cold hard cash in a bag under the floorboards" to another crash.

The verdicts

On housing, members comfortably backed councils taking over homes left empty for more than two years. Even the most-respected Yes voices said "Yes, but", while the No side answered with one word, repeated: theft.

Scrutiny cut both ways in Justice. Members overwhelmingly rejected banning journalists from posing as activists to secretly film politicians, though many No voters attached a condition: undercover investigation is fine only if used equally against all political parties.

On the economy, net zero targets damaging Britain's economy won a comfortable Yes, and it was the day's closest result, though still a clear win. A manufacturer led the case, saying "I would immediately be able to lower our wholesale prices", while No voters argued the pain buys energy security.

Health drew two firm answers. Members comfortably backed banning NHS hospitals from fining patients and visitors for parking, even as the most-respected No case warned that without fines, car parks fill with commuters. And they overwhelmingly said Yes to assisted deaths for terminally ill adults with six months or less to live, though several No voters agreed in theory and distrusted the safeguards.

Finally, members comfortably said No to the UK having benefited from leaving the EU. The most-respected No case was a single line: "Biggest act of self harm the UK has ever done". Yes voters mostly blamed politicians, not Brexit itself.

A fresh ballot opens today, and members can keep building their profiles one vote at a time.

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