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danashton

The Open-Border Egalitarian
Joined 22 July 20262 followers · 0 followingIndependent
Hard Left55% · Coin Flip

3 August 2026 · after 136 votes · current

The Open-Border Egalitarian

Who you are

You are a hard-left egalitarian in the fullest sense: public provision, stronger welfare, progressive taxation, workers’ power and uncompromising civil rights all point in the same direction. Your immigration votes complete the picture — you resist both restriction and cultural backlash, voting for a more open, confident and pluralist UK rather than a defensive one.

How you've moved

A while back, you were The Public Realm Maximalist; you have not abandoned that demand for a more powerful, fairer state, but you have sharpened its moral boundary. The latest record makes immigration and institutional rights feel less like supporting themes and more like non-negotiables, from rejecting EHRC abolition to opposing permanent bans on offenders serving as politicians.

Vs the UK

You are almost perfectly split from the national mood: willing to follow the country on practical measures such as business rates and regional power, but firmly against its appetite for migration reduction, traditional-values campaigns and harsher punishment. Your sharpest tension is that you are economically radical yet constitutionally cautious — happy to redistribute power and money, less keen on remaking the machinery of government or tolerating instability.

What's next

Your next ten votes will test whether this remains a coherent open-border egalitarianism or hardens into a broader argument against national retreat, while the constitutional caution remains the intriguing exception. Keep voting: the picture is already distinctive, and every ballot makes the next reading truer.

2 August 2026 · after 120 votes

The Public Realm Maximalist

Who you are

You are the Public Realm Maximalist: hard-left not merely on welfare, but on the whole machinery of social life — the economy, healthcare and individual rights. You want government to tax, provide and regulate boldly, from a National Care Service and stronger unions to higher capital-gains taxation, while refusing the language of austerity, privatisation or “balanced books” as a moral end in itself.

How you've moved

You were the Degrowth Collectivist; now you are broader and more commanding — less fixated on stopping growth than on making the public realm powerful enough to protect people. The old anti-growth conviction remains, but your newer votes sharpen the programme around benefits, the NHS, care and taxation, even as you retain a constitutional streak that distrusts fixed terms and Westminster-first politics.

Vs the UK

You split almost perfectly with the UK rather than simply opposing it, but your breaks are revealing: you rejected rearmament, harder benefit conditions, NHS privatisation and the triple-lock debate when majorities went the other way. Your tension is that this expansive egalitarianism occasionally turns disciplinarian — backing serious-offender exemptions and making traditional subjects take precedence in early education.

What's next

Your next ten votes will test whether the public realm is your answer to almost everything, or whether constitutional independence and institutional distrust pull you somewhere more complicated. Keep voting: the picture is already unusually coherent, and every ballot will make its edges sharper.

27 July 2026 · after 88 votes

THE DEGROWTH COLLECTIVIST

Who you are

You want a Britain that owns its utilities, houses people before it grows the economy, and leaves fossil fuels in the ground — nationalising utilities via pension funds, backing rent controls, ending the badger cull, blocking Rosebank and fracking in the same breath as swapping GDP for a wellbeing measure. This isn't protest-vote leftism; it's a coherent programme for a post-growth, publicly-owned Britain.

How you've moved

A while back you were the Pragmatic Centrist, backing Falklands resolve and tighter sentencing alongside a bigger NI bill — genuinely undecided. That voter is gone: across 51 scored votes you're now strongly left everywhere, unanimously so on economy, housing and energy, the very categories where you used to hedge.

Vs the UK

You split with the country almost exactly down the middle — but the pattern isn't random: you side with the nation on welfare relief and NHS reform, then break hard against big majorities on Rosebank, fracking and the digital services tax, where the country leans towards growth and you towards restraint.

What's next

Early but sharp — your circle isn't mapped yet, so next week's read can finally tell you who you run with and who you clash against. Keep voting; the more you cast, the more precisely this picture locks into focus.

22 July 2026 · after 10 votes

THE PRAGMATIC CENTRIST

Your Britain

You want a country that's firm where it needs to be — tougher PIP tests, less judicial discretion, force to defend the Falklands — but doesn't abandon people to the market: junk food ads curbed, tech firms on the hook for misinformation, National Insurance raised to soften retirement. It's a Britain policed with a firm hand and cushioned with a generous one.

Vs Britain

You're rarely the outlier — nine of your last ten votes matched where the country landed, on everything from scrapping digital ID to blocking greenbelt building. The one clean break is telling: most of Britain rejected raising National Insurance to lower the retirement age, and you backed it anyway — your one vote for spending more so people can stop working sooner.

Early days

Only six of your votes carry a clear political signal so far, split almost evenly between right (defence, justice, welfare discipline) and left (health, rights, that NI rise). This isn't fence-sitting so much as a voter still assembling the picture — right on order, left on protection, and no fixed camp yet.

What's next

Ten votes in, you're already a genuine swing case rather than a blank one — the kind of voter whose profile gets sharper, not vaguer, with every vote you cast. Keep going and next week's read will start telling you which instinct — the disciplinarian or the protector — actually wins when they collide.