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tinamarie.rudd

tinamarie.rudd

The Welfare Defector
Joined 4 July 20260 followers · 0 followingIndependent
Centrist49% · Contrarian

7 July 2026 · after 17 votes · current

The Welfare Defector

Who you are

You want a Britain that builds — utilities back in public hands, planning rules loosened for wind and solar, power pushed out to regional mayors — but you don't want it soft. On welfare you vote like a fiscal disciplinarian, not a comrade: the two-child cap stays, Motability relief narrows. You're a left-leaning voter who thinks the state should invest boldly and spend carefully, not the same thing twice over.

Vs Britain

You split almost evenly with the national mood — siding with the majority on exactly half your recent votes — which tells its own story: you're rarely swept along by the crowd, whether it's cheering Andy Burnham's growth plan against 48 who scoffed, or holding out against the nation on scrapping the benefit cap.

On your patch

Romford mostly moves with you — unanimous on legal accountability for politicians, on compulsory voting, on Utilities privatisation having failed — though it broke sharply from you on devolution to English regions and on vocational education funding, both times leaving you isolated in your own back yard.

Blind spots

Twelve scored votes is an honest, early sample — you've never touched housing, immigration, health, justice or crime, the very issues that usually harden a profile into something unmistakable. Right now you're legible in outline, not yet in detail.

What's next

This is just the shape of you so far — cast a few votes on housing or immigration and the picture sharpens fast. Come back next week; the more you vote, the truer this gets.