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RichardEggleston

RichardEggleston

The Welfare-State Rebuilder
Left51% · Coin Flip
23respect167votesLabour2 followers · 1 followingJoined 15 August 2026

4 September 2026 · after 159 votes · current

The Welfare-State Rebuilder

Who you are

You are a solidly left voter whose central instinct is economic security without social exclusion. Your UK would tax concentrated wealth, fund SEND support, let asylum seekers work and treat welfare as a guarantee against falling through the gaps, not a system designed around suspicion. Your own case for UBI is telling: people should have “enough to live on”, alongside safeguards against price gouging.

How you've moved

From The Anti-Isolationist to the Welfare-State Rebuilder, your immigration politics have remained firmly Left across your record, with every new vote reinforcing a settled belief that openness needs fairness rather than popular vetoes.

On the record

On 24 August, you voted no to named local officers for every town and city, against an 82% national majority. That is not indifference to local life; it is wariness of turning public reassurance into another layer of personalised authority.

Vs the UK

You often travel with the country on practical accountability, from transparent lobbying to repairing potholes properly. The bigger divide comes on migration and constitutional permission: you backed asylum seekers’ right to work, rejected immigration policy by direct vote, and supported a second Scottish referendum where most of the UK disagreed. You are voting for a country confident enough to share power and rights, rather than ration either by nationality or central command.

Your circle

You and Andy2639 broadly run together on governance, though rights and foreign policy are where your agreement loosens.

What's next

This read finally has your whole record behind it; another 16 votes unlock a fresh one, testing whether your public-service politics keeps widening into a fuller economic settlement.

1 September 2026 · after 136 votes

The Anti-Isolationist

Who you are

You are a strongly left voter whose politics are less about fashionable labels than about what the state owes people. Welfare, justice and foreign policy form a single instinct: reduce hardship, resist needless punishment, and keep the UK connected to the wider world. Your support for universal basic income and rejoining the EU points to a practical version of solidarity — simpler security at home, fewer self-inflicted barriers abroad.

How you've moved

You have crossed from Left into Centre Left on immigration, even as your overall record remains firmly left of centre.

On the record

On 20 August, you voted No to reindustrialising at pace while 83% of the country voted Yes. That is a revealing dissent: your leftism is not automatically impressed by any large national project, especially when “more, faster” is offered as a substitute for thought.

Vs the UK

You are not simply the UK majority’s passenger: on immigration, replacing human-rights treaties and rejoining the EU, you stood against clear national tallies. Overall, though, you split the difference across recent votes, siding with the majority about as often as you opposed it. Your politics are therefore oppositional in substance, not performative in style.

Your circle

Andy2639 is your closest ally, especially on governance; you agree often, then part company over rights and foreign policy.

What's next

Your next 25 votes will test whether constitutional reform and international cooperation become the settled architecture of your politics — and the picture will keep getting truer as you add to the record.

25 August 2026 · after 83 votes

The Internationalist Egalitarian

Who you are

You want a UK that guarantees dignity rather than suspicion: generous on welfare, humane in justice, internationalist in outlook and willing to challenge inherited power. Your support for UBI reflects the instinct that “everyone had enough to live on”, while your votes on Gaza, Ukraine and foreign aid show solidarity extending beyond these shores.

How you've moved

You have moved from The Unwritten Leftist to a more fully social-democratic internationalist: the constitutional restlessness remains, but welfare and justice now define the centre of gravity. You are still sceptical of a written constitution, yet your instinct is increasingly clear — expand security and rights before tightening rules.

Vs the UK

You often vote against the national mood, especially on immigration, punishment, asylum and trans rights; the country repeatedly reaches for tougher boundaries where you refuse them. The sharp tension is that your leftism is not anti-state: you favour reforming the Lords, regulating power and improving local government, but reject random selection and sweeping constitutional change.

What's next

This whole-record read finally captures a settled pattern, but your unresolved question is whether constitutional scepticism can sit comfortably beside such expansive public responsibility. Every ten more votes will sharpen that answer and make the picture truer; keep voting, and the next read will show which instinct wins.

17 August 2026 · after 24 votes

The Unwritten Leftist

Who you are

You are a clearly left voter whose instinct is to widen rights, strengthen public ownership and reduce military priorities, while keeping the constitution unsettled. You backed public control of water, proportional representation and a ceremonial monarchy, but rejected both a written constitution and higher defence spending; your politics are left-wing, though still early enough to be forming.

How you've moved

You have moved from The Early-Days Leftist to a more recognisable, constitutionally restless leftist: the original concern with borders, firearms and rights has widened into public ownership, electoral reform and republican restraint. You are holding steady on the broad direction, but the contradiction is sharper now—more democratic change, yet no appetite to codify the settlement.

Vs the UK

You are about as often with the UK majority as against it, but your clearest departures are ideological: you opposed leaving the ECHR, preferred climate adaptation to a larger military and backed proportional representation. The country’s broad support for prioritising homeless citizens over migrants was one of your rightward exceptions, alongside rejecting inheritance-tax changes to unused pensions.

What's next

Your next ten votes should reveal whether this is a settled public-minded leftism or an instinctive resistance to whichever institution looks too powerful. The picture sharpens every time you vote, and the next ten will unlock a fresher, truer read.

15 August 2026 · after 8 votes

The Early-Days Leftist

Who you are

Your early instinct is protective rather than punitive: no guns for self-defence, no military presence at borders, and no retreat from the ECHR or refugee conventions. You also show a quietly trusting streak on public institutions, backing NHS progress and international students; for now, this is a humane leftward shape, not a settled doctrine.

Vs the UK

You have often been on the losing side of the national vote, especially where the UK favoured tougher borders, more security and leaving European human-rights frameworks. The sharpest tension is that your instinctive opposition to coercion sits alongside a willingness to believe government services can still improve.

What's next

This is deliberately an early-days read: tomorrow’s ballot of eight could either reinforce your emerging rights-first leftism or reveal a more complicated centre beneath it. Keep voting—the picture will sharpen quickly, and tomorrow’s choices may already rewrite this first impression.