MichaelGates

Every scored vote you've cast lands left — NHS integration, obesity programmes in schools, PR over FPTP — a Britain built around care, not control. You even resisted banning extremist parties, wary of state overreach even when it's aimed at people you'd never vote alongside.

Last week you were the Welfare Hardliner, defined by the 0.7% aid fight. That conviction hasn't vanished, but this week's votes broaden the picture: NHS reform, obesity funding, PR — you're less a single-issue campaigner now, more a generalist of the left with health and welfare as its twin spines.

You're not a reflexive contrarian — you actually agreed with the national majority on 9 of your last 15 votes, including NHS reform and PR. But where you break, you break hard: against deporting foreign criminals swiftly, against banning Shabir Ahmed's deportation route, against higher NATO defence spending Trump-style — each time the country leaned one way and you leaned the other, deliberately.

York Outer isn't just agreeing with you — it's mirroring you almost vote for vote, from NHS integration to PR to obesity funding. When you did break from the national grain, your area broke with you too — a rare thing, and worth noticing.

Housing, energy, education, immigration policy beyond deportation — all untested. Your one comment, backing a "Green New Deal," hints at where you'd land on energy and net zero, but it's a hint, not a record yet. This profile gets truer with every vote — cast a few on housing or energy and we'll know if that green instinct is a conviction or a stray thought.

Every one of your nine scored votes has landed on the left, and not narrowly — a National Care Service funded from general taxation, a 2% wealth tax on fortunes over £10 million, a real-terms defence of PIP claimants against tighter assessments. This is a vision of a state that redistributes without flinching, built around welfare as the load-bearing wall.

You're split with the nation almost evenly on paper — six of ten votes matched the national majority — but the exceptions are the tell. On restoring the 0.7% overseas aid target you voted yes when barely one in five of the country agreed; on further nuclear development you said no while most of Britain said yes. Where Britain hedges towards self-interest, you keep reaching for the harder, more generous answer.

York Outer has voted with you almost every time — unanimous on the wealth tax, the care service, the donations cap, devolution. It's a rare thing: a self-declared hardliner whose own street is quietly just as convinced.

You've never touched immigration, housing, justice, education or energy — a startling gap for someone this decided elsewhere. Your net-zero comment about a "Green New Deal" of jobs and green investment hints at where you'd land on energy policy; it just hasn't been tested yet.

This is only nine data points forming a very clean line — cast a few votes in those untouched categories and we'll see whether the hardliner holds everywhere, or whether housing and immigration reveal a different voter entirely. Come back next week; the picture sharpens with every vote you make.