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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Burnham pledges £900m for homelessness amid drive to end rough sleeping
…g rough sleeping. “Burnham is throwing another £432m at a problem he failed to solve in Greater Manchester,” she said. “Under Labour, rough sleeping has hit record highs – yet their answer is always more taxpayers’ money and more empty promises.” Referring to the chancellor, Lam said: “[John] Healey must use his budget this week to cut taxes for working people, get the ballooning benefits bill under control, and stop pushing up energy prices. Instead of piling more costs on to hard-working people, Healey must focus on easing the cost of living and delivering real value for taxpayers’ money.”
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Healey’s first budget to include big devolution package to boost growth
…and businesses that have struggled as the war in the Middle East has driven up bills. These higher costs have also pushed up the interest rates on government borrowing, making it harder for Healey to balance the books. He will set out how he plans to fully fund the four-year defence investment plan announced in the dying days of Keir Starmer’s premiership. However, Healey is not expected to say when the UK will commit to spending 3% of GDP on defence – an issue that was central to his resignation from Starmer’s cabinet. This is likely to be delayed until a spending review due at some point n…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
- Opposing frame: How will you pay for it?
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Snowy Hydro 2.0 is costing $25bn – 12 times more than its initial estimate. How did we get here?
…ictoria over the next few years – and as demand grows due to datacentres. “But it’s just a really expensive thing for what it will get used for,” Edis said. Asked on Friday if $25bn was a good use of taxpayers’ money, the climate change and energy minister, Chris Bowen, told News24 it was a “fair question” but he believed the development would “provide net benefits to the Australian people”. He stressed the scale of the development – a power station the size of the Sydney Opera House a kilometre underground, with tunnelling in terrain that wasn’t properly understood from the start – and decl…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Friday briefing: How a leaderless student group is challenging power in Serbia
…?” Totally perplexing this question needed to be asked. I’d be filing for divorce. Michael I’ve spent way too much time playing our new budget game, where you step into John Healey’s shoes and try to balance the books, while keeping backbenchers and the markets happy. Humbling but a lot of fun. Lucinda I spent a week of my year seven summer holiday as an extra in the History Boys film (it was shot at my school). Nadia Khomami reports on its return to the stage, but fails to mention my scene-stealing cameo … Michael A fascinating video about why timekeepers from 69 countries have voted to do…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
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Barclays cuts 5,000 jobs as profits jump ahead of looming bank tax; French bond yields hit fresh 24-year high – as it happened
…Gulf – is hosting a security council meeting to try and put out the fires at home. We’ve launched a fun (??) game – you can pretend to be the UK chancellor and play the budget game to see if you can balance the books. See if you can do a better job than John Healey at creating a budget that keeps MPs and the bond markets onside. The French 10-year government bond yield has risen above the equivalent US Treasury yield for the first time since 2013. The French yield, or interest rate, jumped 10 basis points to 5.09% this morning, while the 10-year US Treasury yield fell 4bps to 5.07%. With hi…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
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Immigration and Asylum Bill (Tenth sitting)
…t an important principle at the heart of the Government’s approach to immigration. We must have a properly managed system that commands public confidence and treats people fairly, while ensuring that taxpayers’ money is used responsibly. My South Norfolk constituents want a firm but fair immigration system. They want rules to be enforced, decisions to be made promptly and public money to be spent wisely. They also want a system that operates with humanity, upholds the law and does not allow people to exploit weaknesses in its administration. Those expectations are entirely reasonable. Indeed…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Equitable Life Policyholders: Compensation
…act. Why does that matter? First, our constituents end up having money taken from them and their lives turned upside down. Secondly, the Government have to step in and provide financial compensation—taxpayers’ money—but it is too often inadequate and, as my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds North East said, some do not get any money at all. It is right that the Government provided compensation for my constituents and others who suffered as a result of this injustice, but we should not have got there in the first place. The Equitable Life scandal is a reminder of what happens when regulators…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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You be the chancellor: play our budget game to see if you can balance the books
See if you can do a better job than John Healey at creating a budget that keeps MPs and the bond markets onside The challenge On 28 October, John Healey will announce the autumn budget to parliament. As in all years, the chancellor has to strike a balance between the following: Raising the money needed to fund the services that voters demand. Keeping taxes at levels that are acceptable to voters. Persuading the government’s creditors in the bond markets that it will continue to be able to pay its debts. The game In our game you get to try your hand at designing a successful budget. Can you ke…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
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Public Borrowing for Defence
My Lords, the real reason that we are struggling to fund our defence commitments is that, having loaded £3 trillion of debt on to the nation’s credit card, we are now left with a monthly interest bill running at £11 billion. That is equivalent to double our spending on defence. The Chancellor is telling us that fiscal discipline is his top priority, so does the Minister agree that the bond markets will take a very dim view if we resort to yet more borrowing to fund defence?
- Opposing frame: How will you pay for it?
- Opposing frame: Maxed-out credit card
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Support for Farmers
…t; and the reckless, rushed removal of the basic payment scheme while new schemes were falteringly introduced at a snail’s pace. Those new schemes have mostly placed hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money into the hands of huge non-farmer organisations, while family farmers saw their incomes plummet, such that hill farmers in Cumbria now “enjoy” an average income of less than half the minimum wage—and that is if you assume that they work for 40 hours a week, when it is nearer 90. I do not know if the Conservatives’ attack on our countryside, taking money away from family farms an…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Covid inquiry report shows why culture of care workers being undervalued must end, says Andy Burnham – as it happened
…s of diminished responsibility. Emma Webber, Barnaby’s mother, said: “This is long overdue, and simply the right thing to do. It was a disgrace that Calocane and offenders like him have ever received taxpayers’ money.” The proposed regulations apply to individuals subject to a section 37 order under the Mental Health Act 1983 and a section 57A order under the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995. The offences covered include manslaughter, attempted murder, wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, rape, assault by penetration and rape of a child under 13. Murder is not included a…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Alberta voters overwhelmingly reject plan to leave Canada in referendum
…se, with Alberta at its centre. The results showed an overwhelming majority of Albertans had voted to remain and one radio show host posted: “Someone owes Albertans $130m for this theatrical waste of taxpayers’ money.” Pollster David Coletto told the Guardian that residents felt the referendum was “a distraction away” from what they wanted their government to focus on. “There was almost a general sadness about the wasted energy spent on this rather than the more real threats they see, including the Trump administration,” he said. “Most Albertans feel deep grievances with the federal governme…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Sporting Events Bill [HL] (First sitting)
…British sport stands to lose if we undermine the commercial model that supports it. The question for the Liberal Democrats is simple: if their amendments put that income at risk, who will replace it? Where will the money come from to support sports clubs, maintain facilities and give young people the opportunity to participate in sport? I appreciate that their amendments start with major events hosted under the framework for which the Bill provides, but once the precedent is set and the likes of UEFA cannot sell their broadcast rights at market value, the effects will begin to pass from the…
- Opposing frame: How will you pay for it?
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House of Lords Reform
…d go nowhere. The public have every right to expect good value from their institutions because we work for them. I do not think that anyone can say with a clear conscience that that was a good use of taxpayers’ money. We also have to look at the make-up of the Chamber: 26 bishops sit in the House of Lords. I have no problem with religion per se, but nobody elected them. They sit solely because of the position they hold. The only other country in the world that gives clerics seats in its legislature in that way is Iran. In a modern, multi-faith, increasingly secular society, is that fit for p…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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EU, Euratom and UK Agreement on Gibraltar
…r duties with kit not subject to Spanish export controls? The agreement also establishes a financial mechanism to promote cohesion between Gibraltar and Campo de Gibraltar under Article 299. How much taxpayers’ money—or, rather, Gibraltarian taxpayers’ money—do the Government plan to send to the EU through that mechanism? Will the Minister also confirm what share of the cost of this financial mechanism Spain is shouldering? There is also a longer-term impact of the treaty that we should consider, as my noble friend Lord Jackson indicated. The new residence criteria were announced and, as my…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Long Duration Electricity Storage Systems
…. The National Audit Office says that constraint costs reached £1.9 billion over the last year, with an expectation that the figure could be as high as £8 billion by 2030. That is a shocking waste of taxpayers’ money and hopefully pump storage will reduce it. What is the opportunity for Scotland? Pump storage sites are very expensive to build and, historically, it has been difficult for developers to secure private finance, because future electricity market revenues are uncertain. The UK Government have introduced the cap and floor scheme to unlock investment in this type of infrastructure.…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Railways Bill
…the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb. These amendments would remove the cost-efficiency duties from the Passengers’ Council and London TravelWatch respectively. If these bodies are spending taxpayers’ money, we see no justification for removing an express requirement to consider the efficient use of those funds. Other amendments in this group discuss the relationship between the Passengers’ Council and the ORR. The Government repeatedly tell us that the ORR will remain a strong and robust independent regulator, yet, under Clause 42, when the Passengers’ Council refers a contraventi…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Workforce Skills
…the support across the House. As I said, further training is to take place throughout the rest of this year, including major exercises that we have taken part in. I restate, however, that we have to live within our means. That has required some reprioritisation, including of training. We have to focus on the right things and make sure that we are ready to fight the next war, not the last one. It has not been a popular decision, but I absolutely stand by the decisions that I have taken to make sure that the culture in my Department is one that lives within its means and delivers value for th…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Minns accused of bypassing high court ruling with laws to allow NSW mine to increase coal production by 32%
…pany, it’s become apparent that there are 400 jobs on the line that will go before Christmas without this intervention,” Minns said on Monday. He said if the bill passed, MACH Energy had agreed to a “jobs guarantee” to ensure that the current permanent workforce was retained until 2032. The NSW Greens climate spokesperson and environmental lawyer Sue Higginson said: “This is an incredible new low for the Minns Labor government, bypassing the planning process and the law as laid down by the high court of Australia. “One thing is clear, under Labor the coal mining giants are writing the laws,…
- Opposing frame: How will you pay for it?
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‘Countries are defying gravity’: how much longer can global economy resist chaos?
…late. Russia’s delegation was allowed to attend the G20 meeting, to the deep discomfort of UK delegates. The UK received a positive review from Georgieva and her colleagues, for setting out a plan to balance the books; though she conceded the bond markets had not rewarded its prudence. “The UK is actually one country where action to reduce the deficit has been taken decisively,” she said. Asked why the UK’s bond yields have not fallen accordingly, Georgieva said London’s status as a global financial centre tended to put the UK under additional scrutiny. “Traditionally we’ve seen more attenti…
- Opposing frame: Household budget