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DavidSandilands

DavidSandilands

The Libertarian Border Enforcer
Joined 24 July 20266 followers · 5 followingIndependent
Centre Right69% · In Step

4 August 2026 · after 110 votes · current

The Libertarian Border Enforcer

Who you are

You want a firmer, more self-reliant UK: lower migration, stricter benefit rules, tougher justice, freer markets and a state that stops overreaching. But you are no blanket authoritarian—your strongest fault line is the one that makes you vote hard right on immigration while going left on rights, education and parts of welfare; you distrust coercion even when you demand order.

How you've moved

You have moved from THE LIBERAL HARDLINER to a more fully formed libertarian border enforcer: the old Justice–Rights tension remains, but your economic and constitutional instincts have hardened. Lately you have backed lower migration, benefit scrutiny, oil drilling and a more mixed NHS, while still rejecting school “basics first” politics, a wealth-tax-free answer to care, and the instinct to make every institution more punitive.

Vs the UK

You are almost perfectly split from the national mood—not a reflexive dissenter, but not content to follow it either. You joined the country on reducing migration and supporting Ukraine, yet broke with its appetite for codified rights, harsher youth benefit conditions and some fashionable education orthodoxies.

Your circle

You sit to the right of your Centre-leaning circle, agreeing with it only around half the time. JeyLey is your closest ally: aligned on Rights and Health, but divided on Housing and Constitution; LexHelie is the sharper clash, especially where your rights instinct meets their Education position, even though Health and Energy bring you together.

What's next

Your open question is whether the border enforcer or the rights-minded liberal gets the final word. Ten more votes will sharpen that balance—and make the picture truer than any label can be today.

27 July 2026 · after 58 votes

THE LIBERAL HARDLINER

Who you are

You want a Britain that punishes hard and polices without flinching — death penalty, deportation on first serious conviction, equal enforcement of the law "even if it conflicts with certain cultural or community expectations" — but one that leaves people's private lives, and their right to marry, love or present as they choose, entirely alone. It's a union-first, growth-first, welfare-sceptic Britain, wrapped around a hard core of personal liberty it won't trade away.

Vs the UK

You sit with the country more often than not — siding with the national majority on most of your recent votes, from nuclear deterrence to speed-limit enforcement — but you break from it decisively on culture-war set-pieces: no to a burka ban, no to framing trans identity as a threat, yes to marriage equality, all while the nation split closer to the middle. Scotland is your other outlier: you'd axe Holyrood and keep the Union intact against a UK that's more evenly torn.

Your circle

You run closer to your own crowd than a coin-flip but not by much — level with HeatherWells on Constitution and Rights, your steadiest company, while LexHelie, the account you clash with most, still shares your instincts on Energy and Welfare and only really parts ways with you on Rights and Governance. You're not a lockstep follower of anyone here; you triangulate.

How you've moved

Yesterday's Fair-Minded Realist has hardened at the edges — the economy-right, rights-left split that defined you is still there, but it's now sharpened into a genuine justice-and-immigration hard edge sitting alongside an unmoved liberal core on identity. Same tension, firmer conviction on both sides of it.

What's next

Every vote you cast tightens this picture — next week's read will test whether that liberal core holds when the next culture-war question lands, or whether the hardliner in you starts creeping further in.

24 July 2026 · after 11 votes

The Fair-Minded Realist

Who you are

You want a Britain that stays intact, defends itself, and doesn't apologise for capital — no wealth tax, no breaking up the union, more nuclear deterrent. But you carry a genuine liberal streak: marriage equality, a national care service, no burka ban, no panic about "transgenderism." You're the voter who says the state should be strong on money and borders, but should leave people's private lives alone.

Vs the UK

You mostly run with the country — siding with the majority on 8 of your 11 votes, including the big landslides on marriage equality and the care service. Your real breaks from the crowd are where Britain went soft and you didn't: you backed banning extremist parties when most voters said no, and you held the line against Scottish independence and regional devolution when the nation was far more split or curious than you were.

Your circle

You run closest with HarryButcher, agreeing nearly three times out of four — a real ally, not a coincidence. LexHelie is almost the opposite number: you're at odds on Rights and Constitution specifically, which tells you the fight isn't ideology in general, it's exactly those two fronts. Overall you sit right in the middle of your circle's temperature, agreeing with them only slightly more than half the time — you're not anyone's rubber stamp.

What's next

Eleven votes is a first sketch, not a portrait — enough to show a right-leaning economic realist with a genuine soft spot for rights, but not yet enough to say which side wins when they collide. Keep voting and this read will sharpen every week, catching exactly where that tension breaks.