REFNATION
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torryquine

The Welfare Loyalist
Joined 4 July 20260 followers · 0 followingIndependent
Centre Left39% · Contrarian

7 July 2026 · after 15 votes · current

The Welfare Loyalist

Who you are

You want a Britain that protects people at the bottom — scrapping the benefit cap, funding school obesity programmes through the NHS, devolving power to mayors and councils who might actually use it. But you're not reflexive about it: you'll back reindustrialisation scepticism and NSIP fast-tracking for data centres, and you said no to another £15bn for defence while nation went the other way. This is welfare-first social democracy with a technocrat's shrug at the edges.

Vs Britain

You split almost exactly down the middle with the country — seven of fifteen votes landing with the majority — which is rarer than it sounds. On the two-child cap you sided with a losing minority nationally; on devolving power to regional mayors you rode a comfortable majority. You're neither contrarian nor a bellwether — just independently arriving at your own answers.

On your patch

Aberdeen South mostly agrees with you when it counts — unanimous on devolution, on obesity funding, on rejecting the "two-tier justice" framing — but you diverged sharply on defence spending, where your area voted for the £15bn and you didn't. That's a real fault line between you and your neighbours, not noise.

Blind spots

Nine scored votes across essentially two categories — welfare and a scatter of one-offs — means this read is still early days. You've never voted on immigration, housing, energy or foreign policy: exactly the terrain that would tell us whether your welfare-first instinct extends into a wider worldview or stays a policy preference.

What's next

This is just the opening sketch. Cast a few more votes — especially somewhere like immigration or housing — and the picture sharpens fast; every vote you make gets folded into next week's read, and the throughline gets truer the more of you there is to see.