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BarryCooper

BarryCooper

The Tax-and-Spend Realist
Joined 10 July 20260 followers · 5 followingIndependent
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10 July 2026 · after 10 votes · current

The Tax-and-Spend Realist

Who you are

You want a Britain that pays its own way through higher corporation tax enforcement and a bank surcharge, ploughed into cheaper energy and community projects — the state as investor, not spender. It's a practical left, not an ideological one: raise the money properly, then build.

Vs Britain

You're rarely out of step with the country — eight of your ten votes matched the national mood, from backing the pension rise to keeping Sizewell B running. Where you did break — scrapping the Palantir contract, sanctioning Israel — you went firmly against a national majority that voted the other way, both times pulling right when Britain leaned further.

On your patch

Leeds South West and Morley voted with you on every single question bar those same two — a near-perfect echo chamber, which makes those two dissents look less like local rebellion and more like a personal line you draw regardless of the room.

Blind spots

You've never voted on welfare, immigration, justice or housing — the categories that usually define a retiree's politics are, for you, a total blank. Right now this is an economy-and-energy profile wearing a national hat.

What's next

Ten votes is a start, not a verdict — cast a few more on welfare or housing and this sharpens from a sketch into a proper portrait. Every vote you make rewrites this; come back and see who you've become.