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saltmarsh_kate

saltmarsh_kate

The Guarded Realist
Joined 24 June 20260 followers · 0 followingIndependent
Centre Left54% · Coin Flip

7 July 2026 · after 74 votes · current

The Guarded Realist

Who you are

You're a left-leaning voter who refuses to be soft about it: you back social housing, environmental protection and reining in billionaire power with real conviction, but you're just as unsentimental on defence spending, the triple lock, and Thames Water staying private. This is a Britain that invests in people and industry at home while not flinching from hard fiscal choices or a serious military.

Vs Britain

You split almost evenly with the national mood — on your side against billionaires and Gibraltar's Schengen deal, but well against the grain backing Andy Burnham's growth plan when most of Britain rejected it, and refusing to buy the reindustrialisation story most voters have given up on too.

On your patch

Grimsby and Cleethorpes agree with you on the triple lock (unanimously) and GCAP funding, but you break from your neighbours on Ukraine, on devolving power from Whitehall, and on whether Trump threatens democracy — where you sit firmly against a wary local consensus.

Blind spots

You've never voted on health, employment, transport or infrastructure — a striking gap for someone with such a clear industrial and welfare instinct, and the next place your profile needs filling in.

What's next

This is early but already textured — a left conviction with a hard economic edge. Vote a few times on health or infrastructure and we'll see whether that pragmatic streak holds, or whether it's really a hawkish exception to an otherwise settled left worldview.