thomas_hodson

You want a Britain that spends on people, not on hardware or Whitehall consultants — child benefit up, teacher pay up, Burnham's devolved model taken seriously — while staying flinty on welfare cliff-edges, pensions and immigration numbers. It's a working-class economic left married to a hard instinct on borders and the state pension, not a contradiction so much as a worldview: protect the wage-earner, don't protect the comfortable settlement.

You split almost exactly down the middle with the national mood — siding with the majority barely half the time — because you're pulling against Britain's grain on defence (you voted down both the £15bn boost and the £13.5bn plan while the country said yes) and against it again on the triple lock, where most of Britain hesitated and you didn't.

Grimsby and Cleethorpes usually has your back — unanimous with you on the triple lock, the Muhammad question, and Reform UK not being a threat — though you broke from your own town on defence spending, where they leaned yes and you stayed a firm no.

You've never voted on Energy, Justice, Transport or Technology — odd gaps for a self-employed teenager watching costs and infrastructure closely; Business and Science are open too, and they'd sharpen exactly the economic instincts you've already shown.

This is early days — 39 scored votes is a real shape, not a sketch, but every vote you cast from here narrows the picture further. Fill in Justice or Energy next and we'll tell you, honestly, whether the anti-austerity realist holds or bends.