jonathanbishop

Nine scored votes, nine leftward answers — on health, welfare, housing, defence, justice. You want a Britain that invests rather than retrenches: the 10-Year Capital Plan for health and social care, joint housing strategies between councils, free childcare extended to parents on benefits. This isn't protest politics; it's a steady, unglamorous belief that the state should build and share rather than shrink.

You're strikingly out of step with the national mood, and not in the direction you'd expect. On devolution, nuclear defence and abandoning net zero, big national majorities went one way and you went the other — often the more statist, more cautious, more centrally-planned answer. You backed banning extremist parties when barely a quarter of the country agreed, and it's the sharpest edge in your record.

St Neots, oddly, is a mirror rather than a check on you — near-unanimous on almost every vote where you have data, from childcare to the Hillsborough-style accountability bill. The one place you diverge from your neighbours is devolution, where you and the town split clean opposite ways.

You've never voted on immigration, the economy, energy, education or foreign policy — vast territory for someone this decided elsewhere. A left this consistent on health and welfare deserves to be tested against tax, borders and growth before it's fully drawn.

Nine votes is a strong opening sketch, not a finished portrait. Cast a few more — especially on the economy or immigration — and we'll tell you next week whether this quiet collectivism holds, or whether it's really something sharper waiting to show itself.