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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Mike Reader
Top 3 topics this MP has posted about — weekly mean sentiment in their own posts
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 | 23 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| Labour | Defence & Security | 52 | 12 | 14 | 7 | 8 | 11 |
| Labour | Crime & Policing | 69 | 11 | 10 | 22 | 12 | 14 |
| Labour | Tax & Public Finances | 27 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 6 |
| Lib Dem | Social Care | 13 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Lib Dem | Energy & Net Zero | 13 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Lib Dem | Environment | 20 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 4 |
| Labour | Social Care | 32 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 14 |
| Lib Dem | Tax & Public Finances | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Labour | Other | 35 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 4 |
| Labour | Housing & Planning | 63 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 33 |
| Labour | Technology & Digital | 45 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 11 |
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.