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The Welfare Realist
Joined 24 June 20260 followers · 0 followingIndependent
Centrist51% · Coin Flip

7 July 2026 · after 68 votes · current

The Welfare Realist

Who they are

You want a Britain that's generous in spirit but sharp-eyed about who pays for what: you'll back solar subsidies, steel protection and clamping down on political donations, but you also voted to scrap the triple lock and to prioritise employment support over unconditional payments. It's a left instinct with a hard edge on cost — compassion that still checks the invoice.

Vs Britain

You broke from the national majority on eighteen of thirty scored votes — most strikingly on the "two-tier justice" question and integration tests, where Britain went one way and you went the other, both leaning left against a country that leaned harder right. You're not contrarian for its own sake; you're just consistently less punitive than the national mood on justice and immigration, even while agreeing with it on welfare discipline.

On your patch

Grimsby and Cleethorpes split with you almost exactly as often as it agreed — your area went 100% for scrapping the triple lock, matching your yes, but it wanted devolved power to the regions where you firmly said no. You're of the town, not simply in it.

Blind spots

You've never voted on health, education, employment or technology — odd gaps for someone this decided on welfare and justice, and the places your Welfare-Realist streak would be tested hardest.

What's next

This is early days with real shape already — cast a few votes in health or employment and the picture sharpens fast; every vote you make from here rewrites this read, so come back and see who you've become.