windtowers

On the only two votes that carry a political signal, you back a teacher pay rise and back cutting consultancy spend over cutting services — both instincts that lean left, both about protecting public institutions rather than shrinking them. It's early, but the direction is consistent: when money's on the table, you side with the people who deliver public services over the contractors who bill for advising on them.

You're often out of step with the national mood on the noisier culture-war questions — you don't think white British people are treated as second-class citizens where most respondents on that question said yes, and you think Starmer was right not to resign when most of Britain wanted him gone. Yet on the meat-and-potatoes questions — teachers' pay, ditching NHS abolition, consultancy waste — you land with the majority, suggesting your instincts are mainstream once you strip out the outrage-bait.

Your one-person "local area" agrees with you on almost everything, from pub opening hours to teachers' pay — which flatters you, but with a sample of one, it says more about the maths than about Reading West and Mid Berkshire's soul.

You've never voted on immigration, welfare, housing, the economy or justice — the very fault lines that usually separate left from right in Britain. Right now this profile is a sketch of a public-sector loyalist; it hasn't yet been tested where it counts.

This is day one. Vote on welfare, immigration or the economy and the picture stops being a hunch and starts being a worldview — we'll be watching, and refreshing this every week.