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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
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.”↗
9 Jun 2026Jobs & Employmentsarcastic“It is laughable that any union could affiliate to Reform ahead of their annual conference or at all.”↗
9 Jun 2026Jobs & Employmentdefensive“In 2019, a majority of trade unionists voted for Boris. People join a union for protection at work. It’s not a political club no matter how political journalism misrepresents it. Union members tend to vote in line with the population (controlled for demographics).”↗
6 Jun 2026Jobs & Employmentmeasured“(I say this from a place of love, and from having voted to cut all the red tape that genuinely does inhibit union organising. So excited to see what the movement does with new freedom from burdensome regulations)”↗
6 Jun 2026Educationsarcastic“Trade unionists were always very keen on saying trade unionism should be taught in schools, as a feelgood way to blame young people for not joining unions and excuse themselves from organising in new workplaces”↗
6 Jun 2026Culture & Communitydefensive“I don’t think you know who we are at all. There have been Sikh exemptions for the articles of faith since the 1950s. This is who we are: we are not aggressively secular, and we ensure people can freely express their faith”↗
5 Jun 2026Technology & Digitalangry“I am tbh less worried about the election piece than the mainstreaming of virulent racism cos of lax social media regulation”↗
5 Jun 2026Technology & Digitalmeasured“Anyway. The relevant ministers have had me on this in their WhatsApps on any number of occasions in the last 18mo … maybe just maybe down to the efforts of so many people - things may be moving”↗
5 Jun 2026MP & Parliamentmeasured“I feel like a broken record saying this - but it’s DSIT. You want Liz Kendall to do more.”↗
5 Jun 2026Technology & Digitalmeasured“Some useful details in here about what practically could be done. Interested in the idea of the crisis response protocol - but Ofcom are so ponderous and risk averse, and so wedded to the outdated voluntary regulatory approach, that I think something far stronger is needed”↗
5 Jun 2026Culture & Communitymeasured“In this country, we support religious freedom. Of course we should make an exemption for a key article of religious faith. Anything else is unBritish.”↗
5 Jun 2026Culture & Communitymeasured“The kirpan doesn't need to be banned. It wasn't used in Henry Nowak's appalling murder. The kirpan is a key article of faith for Sikhs. We believe in religious freedom in this country - that is who we are.”↗
4 Jun 2026Jobs & Employmentmeasured“Doesn’t work without the closed shop…”↗
4 Jun 2026Jobs & Employmentmeasured“Unions are for work and purposes connected to work, not for not-work - if people want to reinvent unemployed workers’ centres they should, but those aren’t unions”↗
3 Jun 2026Technology & Digitalmeasured“I agree there are things that should be done. I disagree that they have not been done cos complacency.”↗
3 Jun 2026Technology & Digitalmeasured“What I disagree on is complacency: it isn’t that. It is views about comms having been formed pre social media, tradeoffs in the US relationship (this is real!) and capacity among key orgs to act when they are implementing the OSA.”↗
3 Jun 2026Technology & Digitalmeasured“I agree. I have written many ministerial letters, met with GCS and DSIT and Ofcom, introduced Sunder’s work to key people, signed joint letters on social media regulation with the Jewish and anti racism sectors, written to the EHRC and select committees. We need to do more.”↗
3 Jun 2026MP & Parliamentdefensive“I don't know how long you think charter renewal takes, but it is a set process and it will be done this year afaik”↗
3 Jun 2026Culture & Communitymeasured“Yes, I do think it’s important that politicians don’t form their views on the importance and role of the BBC through the prism of their political coverage (of which I have criticisms - but I *should* have criticisms, I am partisan!)”↗
3 Jun 2026Culture & Communitymeasured“Yes. It has a new chair and its charter will be renewed for the 2020s and 2030s.”↗
3 Jun 2026Culture & Communitydefensive“You asked for DCMS areas of substance, and I gave you examples. As it happens, the most important thing I can think of to defend our democracy is strengthening the BBC, which DCMS are doing.”↗
3 Jun 2026Culture & Communitymeasured“Apart from the massive business of BBC charter renewal which is now close to completion, and taking through primary legislation to regulate a near £10bn industry, football.”↗
3 Jun 2026Technology & Digitalmeasured“Ofcom and online safety issues are DSIT’s remit, not DCMS”↗
3 Jun 2026Local Governmentmeasured“We have always had rules requiring any council coalition or arrangement with other parties be approved by the party, and that is right: they have implications beyond any one council.”↗
2 Jun 2026Economy & Jobs (General)celebratory“*Alfed, obvs!”↗
2 Jun 2026Economy & Jobs (General)celebratory“Just fab to be hosted by Amari Metals, based in Wednesbury. Very proud to be an industrial MP”↗
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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.