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You want a country that spends on defence before welfare, keeps its wealth-creators unbothered, and treats devolution and asylum liberalism as fashionable distractions from the real work of governing — a leaner, harder-edged, more self-reliant Britain, backed by CANZUK and the Atlantic alliance rather than Brussels-style regionalism.

You're usually in step with the country — you sided with the national majority on 21 of 30 recent votes, backing Ukraine, defence spending, and Starmer's resignation right alongside everyone else — but you break hard from the crowd on wealth and power: where most of Britain thinks the richest have too much and Whitehall should devolve, you say no on both.

Preston has voted with you almost every single time — on Burnham, on regional power, on Reform, on Islam's reformation — giving you the eerie feel of a man who never has to argue with his neighbours, only with the rest of the country.

Twelve scored votes out of forty-eight is a strong signal but a thin file — you've never touched housing, health, education, justice or the economy proper, the bread-and-butter categories that would tell us whether this is ideology or instinct.

This is early days, but the shape is already unmistakable — vote on housing or welfare next and we'll know whether the sentinel in you is fiscal, cultural, or both; every vote you cast sharpens this picture, and we'll be back next week with a truer one.