BrendanBowen

You want a Britain that slows down before it signs anything, builds anything, or reforms anything — Gibraltar's Schengen deal, EU re-entry, flying taxis, zero-carbon deadlines, all met with the same firm no. It's less an ideology than a posture: distrust the grand plan, keep the state's hands where you can see them.

You're usually in step with the country — nine of your ten votes matched the national mood, including a decisive no to abolishing the NHS. But you split from the majority on ID cards with fingerprints, siding with a small anti-surveillance minority against a Britain that leaned, faintly, the other way — a rare libertarian flicker inside an otherwise right-leaning record.

Your area has voted alongside you almost every time, unanimously no on Gibraltar, EU return, flying taxis — Dagenham and Rainham reads like an echo chamber for your instincts, though with only single votes logged locally, it's a chorus of one rather than a verdict.

Four scored votes is a whisper, not a worldview — you've never touched housing, welfare, immigration, education or the economy, the terrain where left and right usually get decided. Right now you're "clearly right" on the strength of a customs union and a net-zero deadline; that could firm up or flip entirely once the bigger categories arrive.

This is day one — cast a few votes on immigration or welfare and the picture stops being a sketch and starts being a portrait. We'll be watching every week from here.