fernlow

You want a Britain that spends carefully and governs honestly: right on Thames Water, woodland targets and mansion taxes, but hard left on the monarchy and on Andy Burnham's Whitehall power-grab. This isn't muddle — it's a coherent instinct that institutions need shrinking in some places and democratising in others.

You split almost exactly down the middle with the nation — 16 of 30 votes landed with the majority, the rest against. You broke hard from the crowd on defence spending to £80bn (nation said yes at 76%, you said no) and on tougher sentencing for foreign nationals (nation split hard against it too, but you're firmly with the minority who think it's wrong). You're not a contrarian by design — you just don't defer to consensus.

Headingley mostly agrees with you, and where it doesn't, you notice — you backed £15bn more for defence and abolishing the monarchy right alongside your neighbours, but you were alone locally on UKRI reform and the Cambridge planning question, where your area went the other way. You're a fair barometer of your ward, not its outlier.

You've never voted on immigration, culture, employment or technology — odd gaps for someone this fluent on constitution and welfare, and exactly where your right-left tension would either sharpen or resolve.

This is early-days sharp, not finished — 38 scored votes is enough to see the shape, not the whole picture. Cast a few more, especially on immigration or culture, and we'll find out whether the realist beats the radical.