RichardMartin

You want a republic run on redistributed wealth — PR instead of first-past-the-post, public ownership of utilities, council houses built at post-war scale — but one that can still fight. Your unanimous left votes on rights, constitution and foreign policy aren't abstract: they're paired with a defence budget you'd rather see grow than shrink, and a belief (voiced in your own comments) that Thatcher's reforms hollowed out everywhere outside the south east.

Last time you were "The Constitutional Insurgent" — wiring-of-the-state stuff, PR and independence as the headline. That skeleton hasn't changed, but the defence-hawk streak once flagged as noise has hardened into a settled trait: extra defence spending, North Sea licences, deportation of foreign offenders. You're less an insurgent now, more a republican with a standing army.

You split almost exactly down the middle with the country — agreeing on defence spending and deportations, breaking hard from it on the monarchy and the two-child cap, where the nation still says no and you say yes.

JenJennn is your true ally, in lockstep on foreign policy and rights; SirBoyofLard is your foil — you agree on housing and health but split hard on welfare and foreign policy, which is exactly where your defence streak makes you the outlier in a Centre-Left crowd.

Immigration, energy and education are still thin ground for you — vote on a few more and this profile will tell you whether the armoured republican is a fixed identity or a phase. Every vote you cast sharpens the next read, due again in a week.

You're not chasing consensus, you're chasing a different Britain: one where power is redistributed at the root — proportional votes, devolved assemblies, a broken-up Union — and wealth above ten million is taxed like the emergency it is. Rights, elections and the constitution are where you're unanimous, not incidental; this is your actual project, not a side interest.

Last week you were "The Consensus Builder" on five thin votes, agreeing with the crowd on infrastructure. Thirty more votes later that read has collapsed: you're now a hard-left constitutional radical who happens to break right on defence, justice and education — nuclear capability, tougher policing powers — while staying immovably left everywhere else. The consensus never really existed; it just hadn't been tested yet.

You split with the national majority almost exactly half the time — not from indifference but from precision. Where Britain hesitated (0.7% aid, wealth taxes, Scottish independence), you didn't; where Britain wanted TV climate briefings, you called it theatre.

Airdrie and Shotts has matched you on nearly every vote, bar the ones where you broke from your own side — PIP tightening, the Decent Homes Standard. Your area isn't just left-leaning, it's read from the same script as you, almost vote for vote.

You've never voted on immigration policy beyond one gig-economy question, and Energy, Technology and International are untouched — for someone this committed to rewriting the constitution, the silence on how Britain earns and defends itself abroad is conspicuous.

Cast a few votes in those gaps and the Insurgent sharpens from silhouette to portrait — every vote you make from here rewrites this profile, sharper each week.

Ten votes in, you look like a man who wants Britain to just get on with it — build the homes, fix the grid, protect the science base — but who draws a hard line on fairness when money's involved: yes to a mansion tax on £2m homes, yes to a national social housebuilding drive, no to easing student loan repayments back onto graduates. It's a pragmatic left, not an ideological one.

You're no outlier — you matched the national majority on six of your ten votes, happily yes on UKRI reform, the electricity gap, mobile regulation. But you broke from the country twice on Farage: where the nation leaned towards "gone" or "remains," you called it the other way both times, unmoved by the noise around him.

Airdrie and Shotts backed you almost everywhere — unanimous yes on cars, science, housing, the mansion tax — a rare case of your own area mirroring you vote for vote rather than the other way round. The one place you diverge from your neighbours in spirit, if not in data, is that quiet second-guessing of Farage-era politics nobody around you seems fussed about.

Five scored votes is a start, not a verdict — you've never touched welfare, immigration, defence, justice or the economy proper, the categories that usually reveal whether a "centre-left" instinct is really Labour-shaped or something looser.

Cast a few votes on welfare or immigration and this profile stops being a sketch and becomes a portrait — every vote you add sharpens it, and next week's read will show you exactly how you've moved.