Mentions
What was said, and which frame it usedEvery item the dashboard counts, newest first. The marked words are the phrases that made it count; the tags say whether it used an opposing frame, an MMT-consistent idea, or named MMT. These are keyword matches: whether an item endorses or attacks an idea is shown once our classifier's accuracy is published.
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Shabana Mahmood says Labour party wants to create ‘fairness in our immigration system’ – as it happened
…he Labour MP Liam Byrne still gets criticised for the note he left in the Treasury after the 2010 election to his Tory successor saying “there is no money”. The note (often wrongly remember as saying there is no money left) was a joke, written when Byrne expected to be succeeded by a Tory with whom he had a friendly relationship, but the Lib Dem David Laws got the job instead. Laws gave it George Osborne and David Cameron and they spent years quoting it as alleged proof that Gordon Brown had bankrupted the country. In his speech today John Healey used a similar line. I did not quote it earli…
- MMT-consistent idea: Deficit myth
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Andrew Bragg stands by proposed migration limits – even as Liberal colleagues decline to back him in
…also acknowledged the role he played in former Coalition governments, including the Morrison government’s inability to get the federal budget into a promised surplus. “As someone who was a backbencher in the Morrison government, I am sorry I didn’t do more to stop the madness,” he said. “I believe the new liberalism Australia needs isn’t socialism and it isn’t conservatism seeking to turn back the clock. “The madness started when Canberra gave up on the budget … whenever a politician announces more spending, they are stealing from tomorrow because there is no intention to balance the books.”
- Opposing frame: Household budget
- MMT-consistent idea: Deficit myth