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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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Bluesky activity · last 60 days
@antoniabance.bsky.social
314posts
241substantive
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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
  • Reform5
Most supports
  • Labour government21
  • Labour Party12
  • Andy Burnham5
Top topics
  • Economy & Jobs (General)61 postsneutral
  • Energy & Net Zero41 postsneutral
  • MP & Parliament30 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
14 Jun 2026Economy & Jobs (General)measured“I think Green switchers care about jobs and the economy. And as I say: the idea that every decision should be driven only by electoral calculation isn’t helpful - sometimes the sensible tweak to make a policy work as intended is just that”↗
14 Jun 2026Economy & Jobs (General)measured“I think it does. More to the point: some things aren’t about elections. It’s irresponsible not to finesse policy when the unintended consequences could be severe. Protecting jobs has to come first for a responsible government.”↗
14 Jun 2026Cost of Livingangry“Same answer as for everyone: terrible legacy, awful early mistakes, lack of a clear strategy to make sense of what we are doing, and our lack of adaption to a totally different information environment. Plus 15 years of flat wages since the financial crisis still hitting people in the pocket.”↗
14 Jun 2026Energy & Net Zeromeasured“I mean: our climate action record is insanely good, and I don’t think Green voters in my ends want 200,000 local people out of work…”↗
14 Jun 2026Energy & Net Zeromeasured“I don’t believe in making the best the enemy of the good. We need jobs and we need energy - we will lose support for climate action if energy costs remain so high and if 200,000 people in the West Midlands lose their jobs cos the auto industry closes (we are already down a million cars on 2016)”↗
14 Jun 2026Environmentmeasured“Not at all. People who want climate action like me and you need to engage with the detail and practicalities to make sure there aren’t unintended consequences - like the loss of jobs in auto manufacturing.”↗
14 Jun 2026Economy & Jobs (General)celebratory“We are reindustrialising the UK - good jobs, high skills - never in the volume that we had before of course but at the cutting edge of advanced manufacturing”↗
14 Jun 2026Economy & Jobs (General)measured“This will help Toyota, Nissan, BMW, Stellantis - and of course JLR and its supply chain, many of which are in the Black Country. Vast numbers of good skilled jobs. And it will help us be competitive as we try to get new brands made here too - like Chery in Sunderland”↗
14 Jun 2026Economy & Jobs (General)angry“It is galling in the extreme to see UK carmakers having to buy credits from all-EV importers like Tesla and the Chinese brands.”↗
14 Jun 2026Energy & Net Zerocelebratory“Oh thank goodness! The UK set an EV sales target that was too high too fast - getting to the same place just slower will retain hundreds of thousands of UK automotive jobs. We are still providing huge support to the transition and to consumers to buy EVs www.thetimes.com/article/d9c4...”↗
13 Jun 2026MP & Parliamentmeasured“Very important to win the Midlands :-)”↗
12 Jun 2026Jobs & Employmentdefensive“Would have taken over a year longer. Meanwhile people needing sick pay wouldn’t have got it while we fought over something else.”↗
12 Jun 2026Jobs & Employmentdefensive“No, that was a deal between unions, employers and ministers to get it through the Lords and not hold everything up.”↗
12 Jun 2026Housing & Planningdefensive“Yeah. People like me fought for that. But it was much less than what was needed and wasn't going to pass cos of landlord opposition”↗
11 Jun 2026MP & Parliamentmeasured“It was the word her murderer screamed at her. Thank you Hannah”↗
11 Jun 2026MP & Parliamentmeasured“MPs don’t use email - email is something staff have to manage for us, as we get 1000s of messages a week, which means it’s unusable for conducting anything other than casework and diaries”↗
11 Jun 2026MP & Parliamentsarcastic“I’m not writing a formal letter to the minister only to get a reply six weeks later written by a civil servant that he just signed his name onto”↗
11 Jun 2026Technology & Digitaldefensive“I don’t think you mean I shouldn’t raise the lack of online enforcement against racism with ministers…”↗
11 Jun 2026MP & Parliamentdefensive“No. I’m not in government.”↗
9 Jun 2026Economy & Jobs (General)measured“Legacy, early mistakes, lack of a clear strategy to communicate what we were doing and why. Plus an inability to adapt to new information environment, and 15 years of zero growth and flat wages”↗
9 Jun 2026Energy & Net Zeromeasured“It will if we invest the tax take to cut them - including in help to transition to green energy.”↗
9 Jun 2026Jobs & Employmentdefensive“A decade I worked for that employment rights bill. 15 years to fix private renting. Both delivered in full inside two years - but progressive voters shouldn’t vote for me cos of my tone?! Come off it.”↗
9 Jun 2026MP & Parliamentdefensive“Legacy, some dreadful unforced errors, 15 years of zero growth, little defence against unchecked misinformation and prejudice, the lack of a magic wand to fix everything at once much as I wish we could - I am sure there are other things”↗
9 Jun 2026MP & Parliamentmeasured“Not me - we. The seats that elected a Labour MP in 2024 but had had a Tory in 2019, in the industrial heartlands.”↗
9 Jun 2026Energy & Net Zerodefensive“No-one is abandoning net zero? Everyone accepts we’ll need oil and gas for years as we get there - the red wall MP quoted was saying we should use domestic supplies and get the tax take - which we could use to reduce bills.”↗
9 Jun 2026MP & Parliamentdefensive“None of us are interested in people who stopped voting Labour years ago. I want Labour ‘24 voters to vote Labour again next time. And if progressive voters can’t find things to vote for in this leftwing government… I give up.”↗
9 Jun 2026MP & Parliamentdefensive“We are the reason there is a Labour government…”↗
9 Jun 2026Culture & Communitymeasured“Mate, respect your point of view on this. Small counterpoint: for the next few weeks, they are going to be saying some of our boys aren’t English. Meanwhile Eze will score and Marc will defend. And we will be with the huge huge majority knowing they are English and celebrating with them.”↗
9 Jun 2026Jobs & Employmentmeasured“TLDR: vote share among trade union members will recover when vote share among older working adults recovers”↗
9 Jun 2026Jobs & Employmentdefensive“GMB literally affirmed their affiliation this week - and they have a strongly rooted policy disagreement with part of Labour’s platform.”↗
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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.