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Every substantive Bluesky post by Antonia Bance, classified for substance and tone — each links out to the original on Bluesky. Back to the MP page.

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@antoniabance.bsky.social
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Voice score reflects the argumentative tone of the MP's own posts (critical vs supportive) — not what other people say about them. The "criticises" and "supports" lists below show who they're directing each tone at.

Most criticises
  • Reform13
  • Reform UK4
Most supports
  • Labour government18
  • Labour13
  • Labour Party9
Top topics
  • MP & Parliament34 postsneutral
  • Economy & Jobs (General)31 postssupportive
  • Housing & Planning26 postsneutral
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Each post links out to the original on Bluesky — open it there to read the full thread and replies.

WhenTopicTonePost
25 Apr 2026Jobs & Employmentmeasured“People asking me about this. Proper TUists get the difference between political and industrial theories of change. Mick worked on the industrial side of the labour movement but gets that the best chance for working people is a class-based political party of and for working people and their unions”↗
25 Apr 2026MP & Parliamentangry“You have been lied to. Experts put down amendments to fix holes in the bill. There were many many holes - so many amendments. The proponent could have written a better bill.”↗
25 Apr 2026Otherdefensive“I think I am better positioned than you to know why MPs who voted against did so. Not all diehards at all: loads of people alienated by the poor bill, gaping holes and terrible behaviour of proponents. You are of course welcome to not believe me. All best.”↗
24 Apr 2026Jobs & Employmentcelebratory“Proper trade unionist, Mick.”↗
24 Apr 2026Otherangry“I don’t want vulnerable people to be coerced to die. Your proposal offers no protection to them.”↗
24 Apr 2026MP & Parliamentmeasured“And I am saying that Lords aren’t in strong party groups and that what you see is lots of independent minded peers with similar concerns. It’s a house of experts, and they can’t be organised or corralled.”↗
24 Apr 2026Social Caremeasured“Why would you think my concern is me? It’s not. It’s people who have far less agency than me, people who can be coerced and pressured.”↗
24 Apr 2026MP & Parliamentdefensive“I can and I do. Are you arguing Lords shouldn't put in the amendments that they think important? The age limits are a crucial issue - of course lots of peers wanted to discuss them”↗
24 Apr 2026Social Caremeasured“I am genuinely sorry for their suffering and their disappointment. I don’t take voting against further expansions of individual freedom lightly. But my judgement is the price is too high.”↗
24 Apr 2026Social Caredefensive“I don’t get this. I am a champion of palliative care - why would you think I don’t care about these people?! I do. But politics is about trade-offs. I cannot allow them the autonomy to kill themselves because that will expose others who don’t want to die to being killed.”↗
24 Apr 2026Health & NHSdefensive“Waiting lists are massively down. I get there are huge issues still, but allowing 14 years of austerity to colour whether we allow an NHS to offer death instead of treatment …”↗
24 Apr 2026Otherdefensive“Another one with a problem with pluralism. My Labour colleagues aren’t zealots: they are Catholic, Sikh, Jewish, CofE, and more importantly they were elected. Should public life exclude these voices?”↗
24 Apr 2026Health & NHSangry“We have just massively raised taxes to fund the NHS. Perhaps we should see whether having a functioning NHS again helps before giving doctors license to kill people”↗
24 Apr 2026MP & Parliamentdefensive“So you think experts in the Lords should not use their expertise to improve the bill? Baronness Ilora Findlay, doctor and professor of palliative care, should have not put down amendments? Nonsense.”↗
24 Apr 2026MP & Parliamentdefensive“You have been misled. That isn’t what happened.”↗
24 Apr 2026Othercelebratory“Today I will turn on the Lords to hear the moment the assisted dying runs out of time with a profound sense of relief, and thankfulness that so many Lords and MPs put the interests of disabled and vulnerable people over individualism, and refused to rubberstamp a law full of holes”↗
24 Apr 2026MP & Parliamentmeasured“No, it isn’t. This is what happens to the vast majority of private members bills.”↗
23 Apr 2026Immigrationdefensive“No-one is accepting lies”↗
23 Apr 2026Immigrationmeasured“Plus, not sure ignoring the key animating issue for millions of voters that they see as an economic issue and the root cause of all shortages and public service quality issues would end well for us”↗
23 Apr 2026MP & Parliamentmeasured“As I say: we play on hard mode cos they don’t like their right to rule challenged. The answer is to deliver, to be beyond reproach (…), and not to make so many mistakes. (And also to go round the gatekeepers). Comms is easier when the substance is sorted.”↗
23 Apr 2026Immigrationmeasured“It’s not outpolicy, it’s outdelivery. Needs fixing. We are fixing. Take it off the table. Re comms: can’t communicate change without doing it first. Labour always play on hard mode: we have to be better but that starts with delivery.”↗
23 Apr 2026Immigrationmeasured“Secure borders and earned citizenship are red lines for Labour voters in the red wall. Beyond that, cost of living is everything. Loads of common ground between Labour voters across the country. Once immigration is fixed and so off the table in people’s minds, then we occupy that space”↗
23 Apr 2026MP & Parliamentmeasured“Okay. But take a step back and look at where Labour needs to win for a majority. It is not just cities. We need to win the people who voted Labour in 2024 - our strategy is to keep 2024 Labour voters, not to win anyone we didn’t win in 2024.”↗
23 Apr 2026Jobs & Employmentmeasured“As always, falling trade unionism is a society-wide loss”↗
23 Apr 2026Immigrationangry“I worked with Jo at Oxfam. Don’t ventriloquise her for your political opinions.”↗
23 Apr 2026MP & Parliamentdefensive“What did they think would happen if they started yelling at her during an event? She wasn’t telling voters to eff off.”↗
23 Apr 2026MP & Parliamentcelebratory“Shabana told hecklers yelling at her to eff off. It’s who she is: tough and un afraid to punch back. I like that about her”↗
23 Apr 2026MP & Parliamentmeasured“We are not after Reform voters. We are after holding onto Labour’s 2024 voters.”↗
23 Apr 2026MP & Parliamentmeasured“If they don’t want a Tory/Reform government, with relief that Labour is a party for the whole country that is focussed on winning a majority”↗
23 Apr 2026Immigrationdefensive“We think a nation state should have secure borders and people should earn citizenship - in common with the vast majority of the country. The reason for the polls is legacy and mistakes - sticking to the strategy of dealing with cost of living for working families is the right course”↗
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Sources & methodology
SourceBluesky / AT Protocol API · author feed. Each post links to the original on bsky.app.
VerificationOnly handles linked from the MP’s own published list are ingested. Self-declared or unverified handles aren’t included.
ClassificationEach post is LLM-classified for substance (vs reposts, social mentions, scheduling), then for tone (critical / measured / supportive) per target.
WindowThe 60-day summary above; the list covers all classified substantive posts.