REFNATION
Simon

Simon

Leader of People
Right68% · In Step
7respect416votesReform UK37 followers · 1,318 followingJoined 20 July 2026

29 August 2026 · after 376 votes · current

The National Capacity Hardliner

Who you are

You want a UK that can defend itself, control its borders, enforce consequences and keep essential systems working. Your politics are not simply small-state conservatism: you are sceptical of universal handouts and supply-side promises, while backing serious national capacity in health, energy and defence; your support for equal employment help for older workers shows that fairness can override fiscal instinct.

How you've moved

You were The Strategic Conservative; you are now a sharper National Capacity Hardliner. The underlying worldview has held steady, though justice and immigration have hardened further, education has moved right, and your instinct for order now reaches into strikes, rehabilitation, hate incidents and constitutional questions.

Vs the UK

You usually travel with the national majority, agreeing with the UK on 43 of your 60 recent votes with comparable data. Your distinctive edge appears when you reject rehabilitation, universal free school meals and renewable-first energy policy, favouring discipline, self-reliance and dependable power over fashionable consensus.

Your circle

Your follows average out at Centre, so you are considerably more right-leaning than the crowd you keep. BFG_R is your lockstep ally on justice; SilvanaDellaMagliana is your sharpest clash, suggesting your politics are less a social-media echo than a fiercely selective alliance.

What's next

Your next ten votes will test the open question in your record: whether fiscal restraint continues to outrank public provision when national resilience is at stake. The picture is already unusually defined, and every vote will make this living read truer.

27 August 2026 · after 360 votes

The Strategic Conservative

Who you are

You are clearly right-wing, but not a small-state purist: you want the state to command where security, energy and public services are concerned, while resisting open-ended spending. Your record is hardest-edged on immigration, justice and rights, yet your standout convictions are strategic — a more self-reliant energy policy, a capable defence posture and a health system treated as national infrastructure.

How you've moved

You have moved from The Interventionist Conservative to a sharper Strategic Conservative — broadly holding steady, but hardening within your existing outlook on welfare, justice and governance. Saying no to universal basic income, higher renewable investment and tax rises for local funding shows the same instinct as before: intervention is welcome when it protects the country, not when it simply expands the bill.

Vs the UK

You usually travel with the national majority, agreeing with the UK on 46 of 60 recent votes, but your minority positions reveal the edge: rejecting algorithm fines, opposing mandatory produce-washing and resisting a greener energy tilt. You are not voting for disruption for its own sake; you are choosing order, competence and practical control over fashionable reform.

Your circle

You run fairly closely with your Centre-Right circle, agreeing two-thirds of the time. NeillChisman is your lockstep ally on governance, while Selenarose99 is the real fault line — a striking split on personnel that shows your disagreements are as much about who should wield power as what the rules should be.

What's next

Your open question is whether your commanding state can remain fiscally restrained without leaving services behind; ten more votes will show which side wins. The picture is already unusually complete, but it sharpens every time you vote — and your next ten unlock a fresh read.

25 August 2026 · after 344 votes

The Interventionist Conservative

Who you are

You want the UK to be tougher, more sovereign and less apologetic: strict immigration, hard justice, a credible defence posture and energy policy that puts security before the green agenda. But you are not a pure small-stater—your left-leaning instincts on welfare, housing and education suggest government should deliver protection and services, not simply retreat.

How you've moved

A while back, you were The Sovereignty Enforcer; now you are a more interventionist conservative, holding the core line while sharpening it. Immigration has hardened further, rights and governance have moved right, yet welfare has nudged left—an important reminder that your conservatism is about state capacity, not permanent austerity.

Vs the UK

You usually travel with the national majority, agreeing with the UK on 45 of your 60 recent comparable votes, but your convictions run deeper than the average voter’s on immigration, justice and foreign policy. The tension is telling: you backed more military caution over Ukraine while still rejecting softer borders and opposing any retreat from national authority.

Your circle

You run broadly with your Centre-Right circle, agreeing with it most of the time, but not as an echo. NeillChisman is your lockstep ally on governance; Selenarose99 is your sharpest clash, especially on personnel—proof that your disagreements are as much about who should wield power as what the state should do.

What's next

Your open question is whether the interventionist instinct—stronger services, firmer administration and national protection—can coexist with your hard line on borders and rights. Ten more votes will sharpen that balance, and each one makes the picture of the country you want more exact.

23 August 2026 · after 328 votes

The Sovereignty Enforcer

Who you are

You are a solidly right-leaning voter who wants a more disciplined, self-governing UK: tougher justice, firmer borders, stronger national defence and less patience with the “ludicrous green agenda”. But this is not a pure small-state creed; your support for public water ownership, housing action and a welfare brake that protects work gives you a practical, interventionist streak.

How you've moved

A while back, you were The Public-Order Conservative; you have held that core, but sharpened it into a sovereignty-first politics. The newer votes push you right on immigration, rights and welfare, while foreign policy is now clearly joining justice and energy as a defining concern.

Vs the UK

You are neither a habitual dissenter nor a follower of the national mood: you sided with the UK majority on most recent votes, but your instincts run against it on welfare, foreign aid, monarchy and military restraint. Your sharpest contradiction is that you distrust fashionable institutional reform, yet backed randomly selected citizens replacing the House of Lords.

Your circle

You fit your Centre-Right circle two-thirds of the time, but you are more hard-edged on borders, punishment and energy than its average. NeillChisman is effectively lockstep with you on governance; MeirionJones is the real fault line, where immigration and welfare pull you in opposite directions.

What's next

Your next ten votes will test whether this is chiefly an order-and-sovereignty politics or a broader case for an active state—and the picture will sharpen every time you add another vote.

21 August 2026 · after 312 votes

The Public-Order Conservative

Who you are

You want a UK that is tougher about crime, migration and national power, yet practical about public services, housing and welfare reform. Your vote for mandatory whole-life orders and supervised work for able prisoners sits alongside support for public ownership of water and investment in infrastructure: discipline first, but not laissez-faire.

How you've moved

You have moved from The Public-Service Hardliner to a sharper public-order conservative, pushing further right on immigration, rights and justice while only softening your welfare position towards the centre. The old tension remains, but control now has the clearer edge: you distrust weak institutions more than you distrust an active state.

Vs the UK

You are usually travelling with the UK rather than against it, but your instincts are firmer than the national mood on borders, punishment, the ECHR and defence. The revealing exception is industrial policy: while the country strongly backed rapid reindustrialisation, you resisted it — a reminder that your conservatism is about order and provision, not automatic economic nationalism.

Your circle

You broadly run with your Centre-Right circle, though not in lockstep. NeillChisman is your natural ally, aligned especially on governance; Selenarose99 is the sharpest rupture, with your disagreements concentrated on personnel and political judgement.

What's next

This whole-record read shows a settled pattern, with one open question: whether your public-service instinct can keep pace with your hardening demand for control. Every vote makes the picture truer, and ten more will unlock a fresh read on which side of that tension finally wins.

19 August 2026 · after 296 votes

The Public-Service Hardliner

Who you are

You are clearly right-wing, but not a small-state purist: firm justice, controlled immigration, stronger defence and domestic energy sit alongside support for public water, housing intervention and a properly functioning NHS. Your instinct is “order first, provision second” — the state should protect people, but it must enforce standards, punish wrongdoing and stop being pushed around.

How you've moved

You have moved from The Protective Disciplinarian to a more openly sovereign, anti-establishment conservative: still committed to discipline, but now sharper on constitutional control, energy realism and distrust of party labels. Your recent votes also reveal a practical streak beneath the hard edge — backing press regulation, banning MPs’ second jobs and bringing water back into public ownership.

Vs the UK

You are neither a straightforward majoritarian nor a permanent contrarian: your record splits almost evenly against the national mood. You join the country on tougher policing and prioritising homeless citizens, but go further on hanging child murderers, leaving the ECHR and resisting Scottish independence; your gold-standard vote hints at a deeper suspicion of fashionable economic orthodoxies.

Your circle

You generally run with your Centre-Right circle, with MartinGlendening almost in lockstep on economy and justice. Andymac is the revealing fracture: you meet on energy, but part ways sharply on foreign policy and personnel, suggesting your conservatism is more security-minded and state-focused than merely ideological.

What's next

Your open question is whether public protection can keep expanding without becoming state control; the next ten votes will show which side wins. This profile sharpens every time you vote, and the picture gets truer with each new decision.

15 August 2026 · after 274 votes

The Protective Disciplinarian

Who you are

You are a protective conservative: firm on borders, crime, defence and constitutional authority, but distinctly left-leaning on welfare and housing. Your instinct is that the state should defend people energetically — through the NHS, secure homes and national force — while making disorder, dependency and weak enforcement harder to sustain.

How you've moved

You have moved from The Order-First Caretaker to The Protective Disciplinarian: the old concern for people who need help remains, but your remedy is now sharper — leaving the ECHR, deploying the armed forces to borders, permitting self-defence and cutting working-age welfare. The tension is clear: you want a harder state, but not a colder one.

Vs the UK

You usually travel with the national majority, yet your convictions run further right than the country on immigration, justice and sovereignty. You even joined the UK against the grain on firearms and ECHR withdrawal, while your support for the NHS and opposition to a petrol-car ban reveal a practical, anti-ideological streak.

Your circle

You run with your Centre-Right circle often enough, but not in lockstep. StuartSelmes is your natural ally — aligned on immigration and environment — while Andymac is the productive clash: common ground on energy, but a deep split over foreign policy and personnel.

What's next

Your open question is whether protection keeps meaning both punishment and provision. Ten more votes will sharpen that fault line and make this living picture truer.

13 August 2026 · after 258 votes

The Order-First Caretaker

Who you are

You are clearly right-wing overall: an order-first conservative who trusts firm justice, controlled borders and national strength, while keeping a surprisingly durable instinct for welfare, housing and practical protection. You want the state to be less permissive and more competent — tougher on crime and migration, stronger in defence, but still willing to stop ordinary people being crushed by costs or insecurity.

How you've moved

You were The Safety-Net Enforcer; you have not abandoned the safety net, but you now police its boundaries more aggressively. Recent votes against broader AI rights and faster net-zero rules, alongside support for deporting foreign prisoners and an ICE force, show the old protective conservatism hardening into enforcement-minded realism.

Vs the UK

You are neither a simple outsider nor a comfortable member of the majority: your record runs about as often against the UK as with it. The sharpest tension is that you side with the country on some populist instincts — including stronger controls and social decline — while rejecting its more expansive climate and institutional consensus.

Your circle

You run with your Centre-Right circle, but you are not absorbed by it. StuartSelmes is your natural ally on rights and the economy; Andymac is the useful counterweight, especially where your foreign-policy instincts and personnel judgments pull apart.

What's next

Your open question is whether compassion still sets limits on your hard line, or becomes conditional on order and fiscal discipline. Ten more votes will sharpen that answer — and make this living picture truer.

11 August 2026 · after 242 votes

The Safety-Net Enforcer

Who you are

You are a clearly right-leaning conservative of enforcement rather than pure small government: tougher borders, stricter justice, stronger national independence and a state that demands accountability. Yet your instinct is not simply cut-and-run; you have repeatedly protected housing, social care and ordinary people from being treated as budgetary debris.

How you've moved

You were The Safety-Net Conservative; you are now a sharper safety-net enforcer, with justice, migration and public order moving further to the front. The safety net remains, but your recent votes suggest it should serve citizens who meet the rules, not soften the consequences of breaking them.

Vs the UK

You are neither a permanent outsider nor a reliable mirror of the majority: you have broadly split with the UK, often siding with it on welfare restrictions and migration while resisting its softer instincts on climate, foreign policy and prisoner release. Your sharpest tension is the combination of left-leaning protections for housing and social care with uncompromising views on crime and entitlement.

Your circle

You run with your Centre-Right circle more often than not, but not in lockstep. CJB1970 is your natural ally on defence and health, while Andymac is your biggest clash: you meet on energy but part ways sharply on foreign policy and personnel.

What's next

Your next ten votes will test the open question in your politics: when order, budgets and compassion collide, which one gets the final word? Keep voting and this picture will sharpen into something more exact—the record becomes truer every time you add to it.

7 August 2026 · after 226 votes

The Safety-Net Conservative

Who you are

You want a firmer UK: disciplined finances, controlled borders, stronger punishment and institutions that answer to the public. Yet your conservatism has a conspicuous floor beneath it — you defend homes, regulate rents and resist treating welfare as mere waste, even while voting for the death penalty and naval action against small boats.

How you've moved

You were The Ironclad Care Conservative; you are still holding that shape, but with a sharper law-and-accountability edge. Recent votes have hardened your instincts on equal-pay enforcement, university diversity, foreign funding and constitutional restraint, while your leftward streak on housing and social care remains stubbornly intact.

Vs the UK

You are not a permanent rebel: across recent votes, you have landed with the UK about as often as against it. But you sit to the right of the national mood on justice, immigration and governance, while occasionally joining the country’s left flank when the question is whether ordinary people should be protected from costs they cannot absorb.

Your circle

You run with a broadly Centre-Right crowd, agreeing with them most of the time rather than marching in lockstep. CJB1970 is your natural ally on Defence and Health; Andymac is the sharpest clash, especially on Education and Personnel, despite common ground on Energy.

What's next

Your live tension is clear: how far can a justice-first conservative go in demanding order while still protecting tenants, homeowners and the vulnerable? Ten more votes will sharpen that balance — and make the next read truer.

5 August 2026 · after 202 votes

The Ironclad Care Conservative

Who you are

You want a stricter, more sovereign UK: balanced books, controlled borders, energy security and consequences for serious offenders, but not a country that leaves people without care or a home. Your distinctive bargain is “order with protection” — hard on justice and health, surprisingly left-wing on welfare and housing; even your instinct that the rich can be “inherently evil” gives the conservatism a punitive, not merely market-minded, edge.

How you've moved

A while back you were The Safety-Net Enforcer; now you are the Ironclad Care Conservative — still protective of the vulnerable, but sharper about who qualifies and who pays. Your latest votes back welfare cuts, a deficit ban and single-nationality citizenship, while rejecting benefit surveillance and voiding the jobless vote: the safety net remains, but with a harder gate.

Vs the UK

You are no permanent contrarian: you matched the UK majority on 40 of 60 recent votes, yet your loyalties run deeper than opinion polls on social care, constitutional rights, Europe and climate spending. You often side with the nation on enforcement, then break away when it reaches for a more expansive or rights-entrenching state.

Your circle

You run somewhat ahead of your Centre-Right circle, agreeing with it more often than not but retaining a distinctly social-protection streak. CJB1970 is your closest ally, lockstep on defence and health but divided on education and personnel; Andymac is the fault line, especially on personnel and elections, despite shared energy instincts.

What's next

Your open question is whether the new fiscal hard edge will overtake the old promise of protection; ten more votes will show which side wins. Keep voting — this profile sharpens with every ballot, and the picture becomes truer each time.

2 August 2026 · after 186 votes

The Safety-Net Enforcer

Who you are

You are clearly right overall, but not a small-state purist: justice, rights, health and energy are your hard edge, while welfare and housing pull you left. You want a UK with firmer rules, stronger institutions and energy security — but one that still protects people who fall behind.

How you've moved

You were once THE LAW-AND-ORDER WELFARIST; you have hardened into a more constitutional and rights-focused enforcer without surrendering the welfare instinct. Your recent support for permanent bans on serious offenders, abolishing the EHRC and expanding oil drilling sits alongside backing Winter Fuel repayment and environmental farm support.

Vs the UK

You usually travel with the UK majority, rather than treating opposition as a virtue. Your revealing breaks come when the country wants managerial fixes: you rejected cutting university places and opposed making primary-school testing the centre of education, even as your broader record backs fiscal restraint and tougher justice.

Your circle

You run with your Centre-Right circle more often than against it, but you are not interchangeable with them. shucky68 is your closest ally, especially on rights and health, while you part ways on education and the constitution; Andymac is the real counterweight, with agreement on energy but sharp splits on elections and personnel.

What's next

Your next ten votes will show whether the safety-net instinct survives your harder turn on order and institutions — and every vote will make this picture truer.

28 July 2026 · after 154 votes

THE LAW-AND-ORDER WELFARIST

Who you are

You want a Britain that locks its doors and hardens its borders — rearmament, an Islam ban, capital punishment, no benefits for non-citizens — while quietly keeping the welfare state generous at home: no DWP cuts, no workfare litter-picking for the unemployed, a National Care Service on NHS principles. It's not contradiction so much as a settled bargain: security and sovereignty abroad and at the border, solidarity within the fold.

How you've moved

Last time you were the Welfare-State Hawk, defending the two-child cap's abolition alongside defence and constitution hawkishness. That worldview hasn't cracked — if anything it's hardened further into the justice and rights territory, with fresh convictions on the death penalty, criminalising false racism accusations, and axing Holyrood. The welfare instinct hasn't budged an inch either.

Vs the UK

You're a coin-flip against your own country — siding with the majority on barely half your recent votes — because you'll go further than most on crime and rearmament while the nation balks, yet you'll defend welfare spending the country itself wants trimmed.

Your circle

You run with a Centre-Right crowd but agree with them only about three times in five. shucky68 is your true ally, lockstep on rights and economy; Andymac is your near-constant foil, aligned only on energy and splitting hard on personnel and elections — you're clearly the one holding the welfare line while your circle drifts rightward on it.

What's next

Your justice and welfare convictions are now the sharpest things about you — vote on a few more welfare and housing questions and this profile will tell you, precisely, whether that's a settled ideology or a fault line waiting to open. Check back next week.

20 July 2026 · after 30 votes

The Welfare-State Hawk

Who you are

You want a muscular, unapologetic Britain — nuclear-armed, monarchy intact, borders enforced, deporting foreign offenders within five years of arrival — but one that still funds a National Care Service out of general taxation and scraps the two-child benefit cap. Your Britain is strong at the border and generous at the bedside, not the contradiction it looks like on paper.

Vs Britain

You side with the national majority more often than not — on defence spending, income tax thresholds, NHS reform — but you break decisively where culture is at stake: you voted no on diverse casting even as 89% of the country agreed with you, and you called out media ownership concentration, siding left when most don't. Your outlier moments aren't random; they cluster exactly where identity and fairness collide.

On your patch

No local data has come through yet on your votes, so this half of the mirror is still dark — worth watching once your area starts reporting back.

Blind spots

You've never voted on justice, education, energy, or transport — odd gaps for someone this decided on welfare and defence, and the next places your profile will actually sharpen.

What's next

This read is only as sharp as your record — 30 votes in, the shape is clear but still filling out. Cast a few more, especially into those blind spots, and tomorrow's version of you will be truer than today's.