yorkshire_yan

You want a Britain that protects the vulnerable but doesn't romanticise the state — strongly left on defence spending and rights, yet you'd scrap the triple lock and push welfare toward employment support over "unconditional payments." This isn't confusion, it's a coherent instinct: fairness through work and outcomes, not through entitlement.

You split almost evenly with the national mood — siding with the majority on barely half your votes. You broke hard from the country on the £15bn defence boost (nation said yes, you said no) and on Barnett formula protection, where you backed Wales and Scotland while most of Britain wanted change — a leftish loyalty that cuts against your welfare-brake instincts.

Grimsby and Cleethorpes matches your suspicion of billionaires and your view that "the richest have more than their fair share" — unanimous locally, same as you. But your patch split from you on Burnham's 10-year plan (you rejected it outright, your area unanimously agreed) and on the Manchester No 10 unit, where you were more sympathetic than your neighbours.

You've never voted on justice, transport, employment or foreign policy — striking, given how confidently you've staked out welfare and defence. A justice-category vote would tell us whether your welfare realism extends to crime and punishment too.

This is early-shape stuff — 41 scored votes is a real foundation, not a verdict. Cast a few more, especially where you're silent, and next week's profile will sharpen from a sketch into a genuine portrait.