danny_offgrid

You want the richest to be told plainly they've got more than their fair share, the financial sector reined in, and solar panels subsidised on every roof — a redistributive, green-leaning economy. But you don't pair that with a soft state: you back nearly £80bn defence spending, want ID cards with fingerprints, and think Britain needs a written constitution to grow up institutionally. This is left economics married to a right instinct for order and hardware.

You split from the national mood almost as often as you join it — agreeing on the big-ticket defence and financial-sector votes, but breaking from majorities that wanted immigration toughened further or a welfare emergency brake, both of which you voted down. You're not reflexively contrarian; you're selectively so, and mostly on welfare and immigration.

Manchester Central mostly moves with you, backing tougher donation rules, defence spending and Thatcher's regional reckoning in step — though you broke from your own area on Andy Burnham's blueprint for national government, voting no while your patch leaned yes. Not every local consensus is yours.

You've never voted on housing, rights or the constitution beyond that one written-constitution question — a striking gap for someone this committed to institutional reform. Given your instincts on governance, that's the next place your record needs testing.

This is early days — 36 scored votes is a shape, not a verdict. Vote on housing or rights next and watch this profile sharpen into something unmistakably yours.