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RhysTamborski

RhysTamborski

The Barracks Radical
Joined 9 July 20262 followers · 5 followingIndependent
Left65% · In Step

17 July 2026 · after 60 votes · current

The Barracks Radical

Who you are

You want a Britain that nationalises the utilities it privatised, taxes the financial sector down to size, and steps back from military escalation — a country that redistributes before it rearms. Your hardest convictions aren't the usual left tells but defence and foreign policy, voted unanimously left, alongside rights — you're less "bigger state" than "restrained state, redistributive economy."

How you've moved

Last week you were the Community-Power Leftist, defined by energy and net zero with one law-and-order wobble. That wobble has hardened into a pattern: you backed fingerprint ID cards, sided against "two-tier justice" claims, and voted no on removing the housing benefit cliff edge — a genuine authoritarian-populist streak now running alongside, not instead of, your economic left. You're less green localist now, more a redistributive left with a security-and-order edge.

Vs Britain

You split almost evenly with the national majority — siding with it on utilities failure and inequality, breaking from it hard on Andy Burnham's growth plan (you backed it; the country didn't) and on indigenous concerns, where you voted no against a 70-vote-strong yes majority.

On your patch

Your area mirrors you near-perfectly — unanimous with you on EU rejoining, UBI, compulsory voting — but diverges exactly where you turn right: the football-money vote, the pride-month question, the housing cliff edge. Your patch is more socially traditional than you, even when your economics align.

Blind spots

You've never voted on immigration policy beyond one lone right-leaning vote, and business, employment, and technology are untouched entirely — for someone this decided on the financial sector's grip, that's a conspicuous silence. This read sharpens with every vote you cast — cast a few in employment or business and we'll find out if the barracks radical in you extends to the workplace too.

9 July 2026 · after 10 votes

The Community-Power Leftist

Who you are

You want a Britain that builds — homes, community energy, electrified heating — and pays for it by taxing the very top, not squeezing the middle. A trillion in one man's hands strikes you as self-evidently obscene; council-owned power schemes strike you as self-evidently right. This is a redistributive, decarbonising vision with the state doing the heavy lifting.

Vs Britain

You split down the middle with the country overall, but the disagreements are pointed: you voted no on NATO-level defence spending while seven in ten Britons backed it, and you backed 2030 net zero for councils when barely a fifth of the nation would. You're not contrarian for its own sake — you're just further left than most on the two issues that matter most to you.

On your patch

Every vote you've cast has matched your local area's outcome bar one — defence spending, where your patch voted no right alongside you while the nation said yes. North Warwickshire and Bedworth, on this small sample, looks like it's voting with you, not against you.

Blind spots

One category — energy — carries almost your whole record; welfare, justice, education, health and a dozen others are untouched. The deportation vote hints you're not a reflexive liberal on crime and immigration, which makes the empty justice and rights columns the most interesting gap to fill next.

What's next

Eight scored votes is a sketch, not a portrait — cast a few more, especially on welfare or justice, and we'll see whether that one right-leaning vote on deportation is a stray note or the start of a real tension. Every vote you cast makes this sharper; come back next week and we'll show you how you've moved.