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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
288posts
217substantive
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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 government19
  • Labour Party12
  • Andy Burnham5
Top topics
  • Economy & Jobs (General)56 postsneutral
  • Energy & Net Zero32 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
15 Jul 2026Educationcelebratory“Utterly delightful to welcome work experience students Loris from Sandwell Academy and Zara from Stuart Bathurst to Parliament today - and to a very special session of PMQs”↗
13 Jul 2026Economy & Jobs (General)celebratory“I was incredibly touched that Richard Parker mentioned the work I did to put defence manufacturing into the West Midlands Growth Plan - and great to catch up with loads of West Mids businesses at the event”↗
13 Jul 2026Economy & Jobs (General)celebratory“Today was a good day. Make UK manufacturing champions lunch, coffee with the lovely Sara from Child Poverty Action Group, the one year celebration of the WMCA and East Mids Compact with both Mayors and Rachel Reeves and Chris McDonald, highlighting defence and manufacturing”↗
13 Jul 2026Energy & Net Zerocelebratory“Love this. £50m of grants for matched funding for West Mids automotive supply chain to help the transition to EVs This is what industrial strategy looks like - backing our manufacturers”↗
10 Jul 2026Cost of Livingmeasured“I agree with this so much. Money is the answer. Let’s raise incomes so everyone can buy what they need”↗
10 Jul 2026Defence & Securitymeasured“Yes. It is actively helpful to have continuity on foreign policy”↗
9 Jul 2026MP & Parliamentcelebratory“Today I was proud to nominate Andy Burnham as Leader of the Labour Party and our next PM”↗
9 Jul 2026Energy & Net Zeromeasured“You make it sound so tricky. It’s not: we have world class specialisms and strong R&D. If we cut energy costs to France/Germany levels, we will be pretty competitive again.”↗
9 Jul 2026Defence & Securitysarcastic“Mate: my hero is Ernie Bevin. Does that give you a clue?”↗
9 Jul 2026Economy & Jobs (General)defensive“I mean, you can pretend those of us who advocate for reindustrialisation are asking for something we are not, or you can actually engage with the substance.”↗
9 Jul 2026MP & Parliamentdefensive“That is literally what he has said? Did you read the piece I linked?”↗
9 Jul 2026MP & Parliamentmeasured“Obviously it’s not new. But when you have a new leader and PM it is incredibly important to restate some of this. No-one is throwing the baby out with the bathwater: it’s time to get on with the job”↗
9 Jul 2026Energy & Net Zeromeasured“Here’s the relevant extract Key issue - unmentioned here - is cutting industrial energy costs. There is no reindustrialisation til our energy costs are at France or Germany’s level. We need to act to take policy costs off for industry as we ramp up renewables and SMRs”↗
9 Jul 2026Defence & Securitycelebratory“Great piece from Andy Burnham in the Times on defence and foreign policy The best bit is the commitment to reindustrialisation …”↗
8 Jul 2026Local Governmentmeasured“Oh yeah, we’re yelling at them”↗
8 Jul 2026Cost of Livingsarcastic“Just goes to show, doesn’t it? Reform claim they are for low income families - but they aren’t.”↗
8 Jul 2026Cost of Livingangry“Hilariously the leader of the council has responded to me raising this with a letter posted on the council’s website DEFENDING IT! I assumed he hadn’t read the papers put in front of him properly… but no, he SUPPORTS pinching vouchers off low income families!”↗
8 Jul 2026Cost of Livingangry“Reform Sandwell have CHOSEN to take away the holiday food vouchers that Sandwell Labour kept in 2025-6 and budgeted for in 2026-7 That’s families on free school meals expecting help *this summer* who now won’t get it. Shameful.”↗
3 Jul 2026Housing & Planningdefensive“Yeah, it’s a well worn criticism that AB didn’t build enough affordable housing: I would say that the wider environment (not least a Tory government!) was hostile, and the point of the GM model was to get a return for public funding for regen, and then recycle it into more regen. Which happened.”↗
3 Jul 2026MP & Parliamentcelebratory“I was 44 when I got elected - I had seen just 13 years of my life with my party in government. I’d worked 13 years to get another one elected. Labour governments are precious.”↗
3 Jul 2026MP & Parliamentcelebratory“Proudest day of my life. Stood on stage and spoke about the need for investment and a fair deal for the Black Country - for justice, not charity. Worked every day for that end since - stand by every word.”↗
3 Jul 2026Crime & Policingangry“That’s the one that got shut today? Honestly. That’s months!”↗
3 Jul 2026Otherdefensive“You keep saying this to me. Maybe you should explain what you mean? If it is that private finance funded some of the infrastructure in Greater Manchester… yes?”↗
3 Jul 2026Housing & Planningmeasured“Hoping that the new council housing agenda means (a) the funding goes to WMCA not some national quango and (b) that means we can prioritise local authority building and/or management rather than big faceless HAs”↗
3 Jul 2026MP & Parliamentsarcastic“But yeah: my Facebook commentators think all I do is visit places where I can eat free cake”↗
3 Jul 2026Crime & Policingmeasured“… writing some PQs and thinking about whether I am bobbing to speak on anything next week… oh and being distracted by WMP’s operation snap data - submit dashcam footage of speeding etc and then a month later look at the data - make and colour of the car, the offence, the location and the penalty!”↗
3 Jul 2026MP & Parliamentmeasured“… prepping the three speeches I need for next week, prepping for the business select committee where we are questioning the Secretary of State, next steps on steel tariffs, yelling at the council over inaction on a bloody hideous HMO …”↗
3 Jul 2026MP & Parliamentmeasured“I don’t normally talk about non-sitting days, but here’s what I’m up to today… writing novel policy replies, next steps on two of our child protection/DV/housing long running cases, meeting with someone opening a new sports AP locally, meeting with a knife crime campaigner, TA convo with Sandwell”↗
2 Jul 2026Jobs & Employmentcelebratory“No more workers being forced into zero hours contracts - no exceptions. Here's me and @usdawunion.bsky.social's Joanne Thomas at this week's Business & Trade select committee, on making sure the details of Labour's Employment Rights Act work for working people.”↗
1 Jul 2026Technology & Digitalempathetic“Oh god I bet they do. That would be really hard to deal with - so much of the strength of a rep is about relationships and knowledge and judgement of the company in question”↗
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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.