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TheBlackCat

The Armoured Egalitarian
Joined 4 July 20269 followers · 8 followingIndependent
Centre Left83% · Locked In

2 August 2026 · after 129 votes · current

The Armoured Egalitarian

Who you are

You are an Armoured Egalitarian: rent controls, free university, public investment and properly paid care sit beside rearmament, firm justice and a guarded border. You want a more equal country, but not a softer one—your left convictions are strongest on housing and education, while defence and foreign policy are instinctively right-wing.

How you've moved

You were The Welfare-State Hawk; you are now sharper and more complete, an egalitarian who has made national capability part of the bargain. The underlying worldview has held steady, but the latest votes have widened its left flank on housing, schools, disability and digital regulation while hardening your defence-first instincts.

Vs the UK

You usually move with the UK’s majority, including on devolution, rearmament, rent controls and celebrating the country’s history. Your real point of difference is the combination: you can oppose the death penalty and support stronger social provision, then turn firmly right on drugs, immigration, constitutional questions and military readiness.

Your circle

You run broadly with your Centre-leaning circle, though your own centre-left economics give you a distinctive tilt. SimonJohnson is your closest ally, especially on Defence and Housing; warmana is the sharpest clash—despite shared ground on Defence and Foreign Policy, Housing and Personnel pull you apart.

What's next

Your open question is whether this left-wing social programme can keep pace with your increasingly muscular view of security and authority. Ten more votes will sharpen that fault line—and make the picture truer than any label can be today.

22 July 2026 · after 106 votes

The Welfare-State Hawk

Who you are

Yours is a Britain that spends on its own people without limit — care workers, renters, the NHS, students — but polices its edges and its enemies without sentiment. Governance and housing are unanimous-left convictions; foreign policy, defence, immigration and justice are unanimous-right ones. That's not muddle, it's a settled bargain: a strong welfare state guarded by a strong state.

How you've moved

Last read you were "The Guarded Egalitarian" — an economically left voter with a hardening right flank. That flank hasn't just held, it's calcified: constitution has joined foreign policy and defence in solid right territory, while housing, education and health have gone from lean-left to unanimous. You haven't drifted, you've sharpened into your own shape.

Vs Britain

You're rarely a maverick — twelve of your last fourteen scored votes matched the national mood, from arresting those who threaten MPs to judging defence spending by readiness, not price tag. Your real breaks are pointed: keeping the monarchy while most of the country edges toward abolishing it, and doubting that universities' star power should trump wider R&D funding.

Your circle

You run with your crowd more often than not — 72% agreement overall, and near-lockstep with Churchyyfuf. But warmana, your biggest clash, exposes the fault line precisely: you meet on foreign policy and rights, then split hard on governance and health — the exact seam between your left and right selves.

What's next

Energy, tech and business still sit untested — cast into them and we'll learn whether the welfare-hawk balance holds under new pressure. This read gets truer with every vote you cast, and there's a fresh one waiting each week.

13 July 2026 · after 75 votes

The Guarded Egalitarian

You want a fairer Britain at home and a harder-edged one abroad — and you don't see the contradiction.

4 July 2026 · after 10 votes

THE DISCIPLINARIAN EGALITARIAN

Who you are

You want a Britain that's rebalanced away from London and the south-east, more proportional in how it's governed, and less in thrall to a right-wing press you see as a genuine danger — that's a clear, confident left instinct running through nine of your ten votes. But you're not a soft touch: you backed integration tests for indefinite leave and want welfare tied to employment support, not unconditional payments. Yours is a left that believes in the collective project but insists people hold up their end of it.

Vs Britain

You're mostly in step with the country — you sided with the national majority on 8 of your 10 votes, including big ones like continuing support for Ukraine and PR reform. Your real breaks from the crowd are subtler: on youth work ethic and whether it's too late to reindustrialise, you took the harder-edged view against a nation leaning the other way.

On your patch

Your area is small so far, but it's mirrored you almost vote for vote — unanimous with you on immigration, welfare, Ukraine, PR, the media, Thatcher's legacy, and London-centrism. The one place you diverge from your own patch: they'd say young people are less willing to graft, and you disagreed.

Blind spots

You've voted on economy, education, employment, governance, immigration, personnel, rights and welfare — but housing, health, defence, justice, energy and the constitution are all untouched. For someone this decided, that's a lot of Britain still unexamined.

What's next

Ten votes already give you a shape — vote on housing or health next and we'll see whether the disciplinarian streak holds, or whether it was welfare and immigration alone. This profile updates every week; the more you vote, the sharper this gets.