Sentiment Explorer.
What UK MPs are saying on Bluesky, weekly. Pick a view: by party (top issues for one party), by issue (each party's sentiment on one topic), or by a single MP (their top topics over time). Window: last 60 days.
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Weekly mean sentiment per party — parties with ≥5 MPs posting on this issue
Click a point on the chart to see what drove that week's number.
−1 = strongly critical / condemning · 0 = neutral · +1 = strongly supportive / celebratory. Lines break where there were no posts in that week.
Where parties are internally split12 topics
Topics where MPs from the same party have widely different reactions — half supportive, half critical. A party-level average alone hides these splits.
| Party | Issue | MPs | Condemning | Critical | Neutral | Supportive | Celebratory |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Immigration | 26 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 7 |
| Lib Dem | Jobs & Employment | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Labour | Defence & Security | 68 | 9 | 19 | 16 | 5 | 19 |
| Labour | Tax & Public Finances | 32 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 5 |
| Labour | Crime & Policing | 62 | 11 | 20 | 9 | 14 | 8 |
| Labour | Energy & Net Zero | 29 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 9 |
| Labour | Environment | 38 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 16 |
| Lib Dem | Energy & Net Zero | 17 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Lib Dem | Technology & Digital | 18 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Labour | Transport | 62 | 3 | 11 | 15 | 17 | 16 |
| Lib Dem | Cost of Living | 12 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
| Labour | Utilities & Water | 28 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 2 |
MP counts in each viewpoint bucket. Empty cells mean no MPs landed in that bucket. Buckets use the same anchor words as the chart.
How this works
- Each post is categorised and scored by an automated analysis. The score reflects the argumentative tone of the MP's own post — not what other people are saying about them.
- Sentiment averages are computed per-MP first, then aggregated. This stops one heavy-posting MP from dominating their party's signal.
- Window is the last 60 days of posts in our database. The full longitudinal view becomes available once we backfill the rest of the parliament.
- Only "substantive" posts are included — birthday tweets and condolences are filtered out.
- Conservative MPs are largely absent from Bluesky — only 2 with handles in our cohort — so no Conservative party signal is available here.