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SianThomas

SianThomas

The Civil-Liberties Disciplinarian
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71votesLabour4 followers · 5 followingJoined 22 July 2026

18 August 2026 · after 71 votes · current

The Civil-Liberties Disciplinarian

Who you are

You want a more generous, democratic UK: stronger welfare, public services, devolution, workers’ power and wealth redistribution, with rights protected rather than bargained away. But your leftism is not permissive; on justice you repeatedly choose enforcement, punishment and equal application of the law — a civil-liberties voter with a disciplinarian streak.

How you've moved

You have moved from The Rights-First Traditionalist to a fuller, sharper version of the same paradox: less a nationalist with liberal instincts, more a democratic leftist who distrusts impunity. The old border-and-extremism hard edge has broadened into support for tougher justice, while your opposition to welfare cuts, oil expansion, rearmament and faith-based exclusion has become much clearer.

Vs the UK

You are roughly as likely to resist the national majority as follow it, which makes you a genuine dissenter rather than a reflexive opposition voter. You backed Scottish self-government, opposed benefit sanctions and private NHS drift, and rejected a larger military posture — yet joined the country on some law-and-order questions, including penalties for false racism accusations and tougher treatment of serious offenders.

Your circle

Your Centre-leaning circle is a loose fit: you agree often enough to belong, but not enough to be absorbed. DavidCrosby is your closest ally on economic and personnel questions, though housing and health expose the distance; your politics are more welfare-left and constitutionally liberal than the crowd around you.

What's next

The open question is whether your justice instinct can remain a boundary around social democracy rather than pull you towards the centre-right. Ten more votes will earn a fresh read, and each one will make this unusually distinctive balance harder to mistake.

22 July 2026 · after 10 votes

The Rights-First Traditionalist

Who they are

You want a Britain that's generous at its core — marriage equality, a National Care Service funded properly, no truck with banning burkas or branding trans people a threat — but you're no soft touch on the state's authority, backing deportation of foreign offenders and banning extremist parties outright. It's a left instinct wrapped around a firm idea of order.

Vs Britain

You're rarely the outlier — siding with the national majority on seven of your ten votes, including the big landslides on care funding and marriage equality. Your breaks from the crowd are telling: you rejected nuclear expansion and Scottish independence-adjacent positions when most of Britain leaned the other way, and you were far more comfortable banning extremist parties than most voters ever get.

Your circle

You keep company that leans Centre Right on average, yet you agree with them barely six times in ten — this isn't a bubble, it's a genuine argument. David Crosby is your closest ally, locked in with you on Rights but pulling apart on Constitution; Chris Jones is your sharpest foil, the same Rights question somehow splitting you clean apart from each other.

What's next

Ten votes is just the opening move — enough to show a left-leaning conscience with an authoritarian edge on borders and extremism, not yet enough to say exactly what kind of left you are. Cast a few more and this profile will start drawing sharper lines — especially around that immigration instinct sitting uneasily against everything else you believe.