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Bushwacker

Bushwacker

The Blue Labour Realist
Joined 25 July 20265 followers · 5 followingIndependent
Centre Right

25 July 2026 · after 10 votes · current

The Blue Labour Realist

You want a Britain that still looks after its own — a National Care Service funded by general taxation, a cap on obscene individual wealth — but you want that same Britain to look and behave like the one you grew up in, unyielding on marriage, gender and the burka.

Who you are

You split the ledger cleanly: economics and welfare pull you left, rights and culture pull you hard right, and the result isn't confusion — it's a coherent, old-fashioned solidarity that cares for its own people fiercely while guarding what it thinks makes them "its own" just as fiercely.

Vs the UK

You're not a contrarian by instinct — you matched the national majority on six of your ten votes, backing deportation of foreign offenders and nuclear rearmament alongside most of the country — but on culture you're a genuine outlier, opposing marriage equality and calling transgenderism a danger when large majorities disagreed with you both times.

Your circle

Your circle leans centre-left overall, and you agree with them only six times in ten shared votes — modest, not tribal. easterly_breeze is your closest ally, marching with you on rights even as you part ways on the constitution; ThewlisStrachan is your clearest clash, splitting from you on both rights and constitution, the two fault lines that define you most.

What's next

Ten votes is a first sketch, not a portrait — the tension between your welfare-state instincts and your cultural conservatism is the real story here, and every vote you cast from now sharpens which side is actually steering you. Come back next week and let's see which one wins out.