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orchard_lane

orchard_lane

The Left-Leaning Sceptic
Joined 24 June 20260 followers · 0 followingIndependent
Centrist48% · Contrarian

7 July 2026 · after 61 votes · current

The Left-Leaning Sceptic

who you are

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.

vs Britain

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.

on your patch

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.

blind spots

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.

what's next

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.