moira.deans

You want a Britain that redistributes downward and decides collectively — scrap the two-child cap, tax inequality out of the system, devolve power to mayors and councils rather than hoard it in Westminster. But you're not a reflexive spender: you turned down the extra £15bn for defence and rejected VAT relief carve-outs, suggesting your left is about where money lands, not how much of it there is.

You split almost exactly down the middle with the national mood — siding with the majority on 10 of 17 votes — which is less "centrist" than it looks. On the big fairness questions (inequality, the benefit cap, compulsory voting) you're solidly left of a nation that's often more equivocal; where you break with the crowd, it's usually because Britain wants to spend on defence or protect a benefit-in-kind, and you don't.

Aberdeen South mostly walks with you — unanimous on devolution, Gibraltar, rewilding, inequality — making you less an outlier locally than a fair reflection of it. The one real gap: your area rejected the whole-systems electricity approach where you backed it, a small green streak your neighbours don't share.

Eleven scored votes is a real but thin foundation — you've never touched immigration, health, justice, or housing, some of the most consequential fault lines in British politics right now. Your convictions on welfare are already clear; the next test is whether they hold on the ground of the NHS or the border.

This is early days — a clear direction, not yet a full picture. Every vote you cast sharpens it; come back once you've weighed in on health or immigration and this profile will start telling you something you can't yet see.