AndrewWilliams

You want a more disciplined UK: tighter borders, firmer welfare rules, traditional standards, balanced books and institutions that still command respect. But your conservatism is not simply extractive or punitive; you back environmental improvements for farms and old homes when they protect what already exists, while rejecting expensive green dogma and state overreach. As you put it, the Lords needs “reformation”, but not rule by vaguely chosen professional representatives.

You were The Order-First Realist; with a much fuller record, you have become The Conservative Conservationist — still firmly on the right, but more visibly willing to cross the aisle on practical economics, environmental stewardship and individual protections. The newer votes confirm the pattern: hard on immigration and cultural institutions, yet open to regional power, business-rate reform and a welfare brake aimed at the better-off.

You usually move with the national majority, but your instincts are more severe than the country’s on immigration, rights, welfare and constitutional authority. Your sharpest break is environmental: you oppose demolishing inefficient old housing and support farming incentives, even while backing North Sea drilling and resisting looser clean-energy contracts.

Your Centre-Left circle is company rather than compass: you agree with it only somewhat, though Glasses is a genuine ally on immigration and housing. JamesCarter is the fault line — especially on rights and welfare — where your order-first instincts pull decisively away.

Your open question is whether practical conservation can coexist with an increasingly hard-edged politics of nation, authority and belonging. Ten more votes will sharpen that answer, and make the picture truer each time you return.

You want a Britain that punishes crime harder, controls its borders tighter, and keeps the state's ambitions modest — deport foreign offenders within five years, ban the burka, keep the union intact, no to a National Care Service or its levy. It's a vision built on order and restraint rather than reinvention.

You're rarely an outlier — on deportation, nuclear deterrence, phonics-first schooling, you're simply the loud majority given a single vote. The interesting bits are where you're not: you backed marriage equality and a ban on extremist parties, both breaking right, quietly parting from the harder edge of your own instincts and, on the extremist-party question, from most of the country too.

You follow a Centre-Left crowd and only meet them halfway — agreeing barely half the time across 35 shared votes. Even your closest ally, gerryflynn, is only an even-money match: you walk together on rights, but split hard on the constitution. Your circle is company, not consensus — you're voting against your own feed more often than with it.

Sixteen scored votes is a clear shape but a short book — early days, and every vote from here sharpens the picture rather than settling it. Come back next week; the gap between you and your circle is the thread worth watching unravel.