seaburnstroller

You want the mayors and councils to have the keys, not Westminster — you've voted for devolution, called Britain "too London-centric," and blamed Thatcher's reforms for hollowing out everywhere north of the M25. But you want whoever holds those local keys to spend like you would: no to scrapping the two-child benefit cap, no to extra defence billions, no to VAT relief on Motability leases. Yours is a Britain redrawn on the map but not loosened at the purse — devolve the power, keep the discipline.

You split almost exactly down the middle with the national mood — agreeing on rewilding beavers and devolution, breaking from the majority on defence spending and the benefit cap, where the country leaned generous and you didn't.

Sunderland Central mostly moves with you — unanimous on devolution, on Gibraltar's Schengen deal, on distrusting Westminster's "good growth" plans — though your own area split on Motability and defence spending too, suggesting the fiscal caution is as much a Wearside instinct as a personal one.

You've never voted on immigration, housing, health, or justice — the categories that usually anchor a working political identity are, for you, still blank pages. That's the real gap in an otherwise sharply drawn fiscal-versus-governance divide.

Fourteen scored votes is enough to see the shape of you but not the whole picture — cast a few more on immigration or health and we'll find out whether the purse-keeper stays disciplined everywhere, or only where the money's tightest. Every vote you make writes the next version of this.