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TomHutchcraft

TomHutchcraft

The Open-Border Green Insurgent
Hard Left51% · Coin Flip
34respect63votesGreen7 followers · 5 followingJoined 12 August 2026

24 August 2026 · after 55 votes

The Borderless Republic Firebrand

Who you are

You are a hard-left internationalist with unusually consistent convictions: integration over exclusion, rehabilitation over punishment, diplomacy over militarisation, and democracy over monarchy. Yet your politics is not soft-edged; on Gaza, policing and immigration, you want institutions fundamentally rebuilt, not merely moderated.

How you've moved

You were The Open-Border Green Insurgent; you have not changed direction so much as sharpened the argument. The climate-first, anti-militarist leftist is still here, but your latest votes harden your opposition to indefinite leave restrictions, punitive policing and inherited privilege—while your case-by-case view of inheritance tax shows a humane instinct for nuance rather than blanket collectivism.

Vs the UK

You are a genuine cross-grain voter: the UK majority has gone your way on some rights and constitutional questions, but you repeatedly resist its appetite for tougher borders, harsher penalties and stronger police powers. Your sharpest tension is that you can be economically pragmatic—rejecting abolition of inheritance tax on grounds of fairness—while being uncompromising when state power bears down on migrants or minorities.

Your circle

You run broadly with your left-leaning circle, agreeing on 77% of shared votes, but you are not simply following the pack. JamesHutchcraft is your closest ally on personnel and immigration, though constitution divides you; r08yn is your biggest clash, especially on governance and justice, despite common ground on immigration and the economy.

What's next

Your next ten votes will test whether this borderless, anti-coercive republicanism holds when security and economic trade-offs become harder; the picture sharpens every time you vote, and the next read will make it truer.

16 August 2026 · after 41 votes · current

The Open-Border Green Insurgent

Who you are

You have moved beyond a merely rights-centred left stance into a strongly left worldview: open to refugees, hostile to welfare cuts, sceptical of borders enforced by soldiers, and committed to public ownership and climate action. Your instinct is to reject false choices—“stop pitting us against each other”—while demanding a state that actually houses, protects and provides; even this is early days, but the direction is unusually clear.

How you've moved

The Open-Border Rights Dissenter has become the Open-Border Green Insurgent: you are holding steady on immigration and rights, but your politics now reaches decisively into climate, defence, education and economic control. The old tension remains—you once backed limiting tolerance of intolerant ideologies—but your newer votes sharpen the broader pattern: compassion without naivety, and suspicion of power whatever its uniform.

Vs the UK

You are roughly as likely to part company with the UK majority as join it, but the biggest breaks come where the nation turns defensive: leaving the ECHR, prioritising citizens over migrants, deploying troops domestically, or treating climate action as indulgence. You can still share the country’s anger at failing institutions and private profiteering, but you refuse to convert frustration into exclusion.

Your circle

You run remarkably close to your left-leaning circle, with JamesHutchcraft your closest ally on personnel and immigration. r08yn is the sharpest friction point—though even that clash is narrow, concentrated around immigration and the economy—so your independence is real, but not lonely.

What's next

Your next ten votes will test the open thread: can your universalism survive harder questions about security, scarcity and public order? Keep voting and this early, powerful outline will become a truer portrait of the country you want to build.

14 August 2026 · after 24 votes

The Open-Border Rights Dissenter

Who you are

You are becoming a distinctly left-wing voter whose idea of a decent UK is open, rights-protecting and willing to defend people the welfare brake would leave behind. Immigration is your clearest conviction: demographic change is “not an issue” to solve, while cutting benefits for working-age claimants is, in your view, an assault on people with “significant challenges” and real extra costs.

How you've moved

You have moved from The Early-Days Rights Defender into a broader left dissenter: the old civil-liberties instinct now reaches immigration, welfare, climate action, education and collective punishment. You are still early in the record, but no longer merely rights-first; you are starting to define the society those rights should protect.

Vs the UK

You are about as often against the national majority as with it, but the disagreements are revealing rather than random: you opposed a migration cap, ethnic majoritarianism and an ICE force, while backing stronger climate rules and stopping SATs. Your sharp tension is that you voted to limit tolerance of intolerant ideologies — a right-coded exception inside an otherwise strongly left worldview.

Your circle

You run remarkably close to your one-account circle, agreeing with JamesHutchcraft on nearly nine in ten shared votes, especially Personnel & Rights. That looks less like passive conformity than a shared moral vocabulary; no clear personal clash is supplied, so the unanswered question is where your independent immigration convictions eventually pull you apart.

What's next

Your record is becoming clearer, but ten politically scored votes still leave the broader shape unfinished: will open-border idealism remain your anchor, or meet a firmer view of security and institutions? Ten more votes will unlock a fresh read, and every ballot will make the picture truer.

12 August 2026 · after 8 votes

The Early-Days Rights Defender

Who you are

You are early in the making: only three votes carry a clear political signal, but that signal is unmistakably left on rights and justice. You seem to want a UK that protects people from state overreach and collective punishment — rejecting foreign-prisoner deportations and backing legal standards for journalism — even when a tougher national mood beckons.

Vs the UK

You have often voted against the grain, siding with the UK’s majority on only three of eight recent questions. Your sharpest break is moral rather than economic: where the country reaches for punishment or closure, you are more likely to ask what safeguards remain.

What's next

Tomorrow’s ballot will test whether this is the beginning of a durable rights-first outlook or simply an early cluster of instincts. The picture is still deliberately unfinished — and tomorrow’s eight votes could rewrite this first read.