oldpierwalker

You want a Britain that redistributes hard and spends carefully — free at the point of use on childcare, housing, education, but never convinced the economy runs on good intentions. You back teacher pay rises, PR, and immigration's NHS benefits, yet you'll call the minimum wage a job-killer and side against tougher sentencing for non-British offenders while also wanting Shabana Mahmood kept in post — a left instinct with a green-eyeshade streak.

You split almost exactly down the middle with the national mood — agreeing on barely half your votes — which isn't drift, it's independence: you took the minority side against £15bn extra defence spending's popularity, against planning reform, against Andy Burnham's growth plan when the country rejected it too. You're rarely the outlier, but you're never just following the crowd either.

Scunthorpe usually confirms you — on dog licensing, UBI, subsea cable investment, PR, you and your town moved as one. But on planning reform you stood entirely alone against a near-unanimous national yes while your area voted with you at zero — a rare moment where local and national both pulled one way and you held firm regardless.

You've never voted on health, transport, technology or business — odd gaps for someone this fluent in economics and welfare. Filling those in would sharpen exactly the tension that already defines you: the redistributor who still checks the receipt.

This is early days — 38 scored votes is a real shape, not a sketch, but every vote adds grain. Vote on health or business next and watch whether your economic hard edge holds, or softens once it's your own services on the line — we'll be here to tell you which.