RebeccaP

Your clearest instinct is protection of the welfare state — the triple lock defended, pension schemes forced to show their working, wealth taxed over work. That's a Britain that looks after those who've paid in, but it's paired with a wariness of outward-facing causes: no to closer EU ties, no to an 87% carbon target, yes to whole-life sentences. You're a redistributive centre-left voter with a small-c conservative streak on sovereignty and order.

You're rarely out of step — on every vote with a clear split, you land with the national majority, including the runaway 100% support for pension transparency and by-election triggers for defectors. Your one real divergence is the carbon budget: the country split roughly even, you voted it down.

Reading West and Mid Berkshire mirrors you almost vote for vote — unanimous on solar-panel housing, the wealth tax, the triple lock, whole-life sentences. The area's only near-total agreement with you against the odds: rejecting closer EU ties and the emissions target, both against a national mood that leaned the other way.

Eight scored votes barely dents the ballot — you've never voted on immigration, health, defence, energy or the constitution, some of the biggest fault lines in British politics. Your record so far is a welfare conviction wrapped in silence on almost everything else.

This is early days — a strong welfare signal on a thin base. Cast a few votes on immigration or the NHS and we'll start to see whether the guarded instinct on Europe and crime is a pattern or a one-off; every vote you make sharpens next week's read.