orchard_lane
7 July 2026 · after 61 votes · current
The Left-Leaning Sceptic
7 July 2026 · after 61 votes · current
The Left-Leaning Sceptic
You want a Britain that redistributes power downward — out of Whitehall, out of billionaire hands — while staying hard-nosed about what actually delivers: faster medicine trials, more defence cash, no romantic attachment to solar subsidies or apprenticeship crazes replacing degrees. It's a practical left, not a purist one.
You break from the national mood often — siding with the majority on fewer than half these votes. Where Britain cheered pubs opening at 1am for England games or backed a shopfront crackdown, you were the quiet no; where the country wanted a Hybrid Navy or the £8.6bn combat air programme, you said pull back. You're not reflexively left, you're selectively so.
Liverpool Riverside is where you actually belong — you matched your area on most votes, from backing compulsory voting to cheering Burnham's power grab from Whitehall. Your patch runs harder-left than you sometimes do, and mostly you follow it there.
Health is your one real right-wing conviction, sharp against an otherwise left record — a genuine tension worth sitting with. And you've never voted on Environment, Rights, Employment or Technology: a modern-left profile with a curiously analogue set of silences.
This is early days — 36 scored votes is a start, not a verdict. Cast a few more, especially into those blank categories, and the picture sharpens into something unmistakably yours — we'll be back next week with the update.