drizzle_merchant

You want a Britain that protects people from the sharp edges of the economy — strongly pro-welfare, pro-worker, anti-inequality-as-status-quo, backing UBI against automation and siding against the minimum-wage scaremongers. But it's not a soft-left blank cheque: you want a state that also enforces borders, doesn't sentimentalise pride month in the forces, and thinks white British people get a raw deal from institutions too. This is Labour instinct filtered through a resident's suspicion of anyone telling her what to feel.

You split almost exactly down the middle with the national mood — on the money, you passed on more defence spending against 86% of the country, and you called the Green Party a danger when most voters agreed, but you also refused the crowd on integration tests and the Barnett formula. You're not reflexively contrarian; you just don't defer.

Scunthorpe backs you as often as it doesn't — locally unanimous with you on independence votes and compulsory voting, but firmly against you on the housing benefit cliff-edge and shopfront crackdowns. Your area isn't a bloc; you're voting your own convictions inside it, not for it.

You've never voted on health, education, environment or technology — odd for someone this engaged on welfare and work, and the next real test of your politics.

This is early days with a clear left spine and a genuine right-leaning streak on energy, foreign policy and rights — cast a few more votes and we'll see whether that tension hardens into a distinct politics or resolves into something more familiar.