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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EU Membership Referendum: Impact on the UK
…but, with the rebate, the net contribution was £9.4 billion in the last year of membership. Our latest contribution was £103 million. To all those people who advocate for rejoining or for the reset, where will the money come from? Will it come out of defence or welfare, or will there be more taxation to generate the extra revenue needed once we start making increased contributions to the European Union? There is also the myth-making. There is a myth that there were no small boats until Brexit—what rubbish. The small boats started in 2018, before we left, and by 2020 there were more than 8,5…
- Opposing frame: How will you pay for it?
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Rewiring the State
With your permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement on the work of the newly formed Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and the change it will bring. On the steps of Downing Street six weeks ago, the Prime Minister set out the priorities that will guide this Government. He was clear that 40 years of overly centralised decision making and over-privatisation have stripped power and resources away from communities in every nation and region of this country; that public control over the things that matter so much to people’s lives has been systematically eroded and become a ba…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Building Safety Levy (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2026
My Lords, the remediation of residential buildings with unsafe cladding in England is a priority for this Government. Nine years on from the Grenfell tragedy, there is no justification for any building to remain unsafe. Helping residents to feel safe in their homes and move on from this issue is crucial work. The Government are committing £5.2 billion of taxpayers’ money to the cost of remediation and the building safety levy is an essential part of the remediation funding package, which will protect leaseholders from costs and ensure that taxpayers are not further burdened. We estimate that…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Engagements
I have made that commitment, I have made it very clearly, and I have done so for a considerable time. I was in Ukraine last week for a very specific reason: to repeat it on the world stage. My hon. Friend can be absolutely sure of that. Alongside our commitment to defence, we also have to build the resilience of Britain. We need to ensure that the maximum amount of the funding committed to the defence investment plan goes back into the reindustrialisation of our communities. We should do more to maintain sovereign manufacturing and production capability here, and that will be a theme of my Go…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Engagements
Q6. My private Member’s Bill on community-led homes aims to help combat widening inequality in the UK. In Cornwall alone during the last decade, more than half a billion pounds of taxpayers’ money has been handed out to second home owners through tax loopholes, while the housing problems of locals have got significantly worse. The planning system is fuelled by greed rather than need, allowing land value speculators simply to fill their boots while housing problems get worse. Will the Prime Minister meet me so that we can identify tools within my private Member’s Bill to empower communities to…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Engagements
May I congratulate the Prime Minister on his stamina? Three hours! [Laughter.] Yesterday, he faced 125 questions from MPs across the House. Of course, Labour and the Lib Dems just wanted more Government spending—that is, taxpayers’ money—but can he name a single spending request to which he answered no?
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Direction of Government
…n standing behind the Ukrainian people. That was the most powerful part of his statement, precisely because we are working together, so may I encourage him in that direction? We all know that we are under mortal threat, that we must increase the defence budget and that the decisions to pare back the bloated welfare bill are extremely difficult, so why does he not take up the offer of the Leader of the Opposition to deal with this, to meet our international commitments, to reduce dependency, to ensure that we are living within our means, to work together and to do this now? “Action this day.”
- Opposing frame: Household budget
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United Kingdom: Business Competitiveness
I thank the noble Lord for that question. I have been trying to stay in the spirit of our new Prime Minister and to reach the greatest cross-party consensus that we can on this. What the Chancellor and the Prime Minister have said about being really careful about business costs, and making sure that business stays competitive, takes us some way in that direction. But every businessperson will tell you that you need to balance the books, and the comment from my Benches suggested that perhaps, three years ago, that was not taking place.
- Opposing frame: Household budget
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Draft Inter-American Investment Corporation (Further Payments to Capital Stock) (Amendment) Order 2026
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Murrison. Let me start by welcoming the new Minister to her position. The Inter-American Development Bank Group is an important source of development finance across Latin America and the Caribbean, and its private sector arm has an important role to play in mobilising investment and supporting private sector-led growth. The draft order, however, authorises a further $25 million of UK taxpayers’ money, taking the UK’s total investment in the Inter-American Investment Corporation to approximately $131 million. It would increase the UK’s shar…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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There is clearly trouble ahead for Harry and Meghan on their return to the UK. Here are five ways to avert it
…ere are many questions but very few answers: not just “why return now?” and “why so suddenly?”, but also questions of security: who pays if not themselves, given that they are not working royals? And where will the money come from to keep them in the style to which they are accustomed? The bills are mounting: not just the Daily Mail’s legal costs incurred by Harry’s ill-fated court action, but even the upkeep of their nine-bedroom Montecito mansion, which, with property taxes, mortgage and upkeep (including looking after their chickens), could cost about $80,000 (£60,000) a month. That’s to…
- Opposing frame: How will you pay for it?
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Trump administration reportedly considering ‘new round of sweeping tariffs on semiconductors’ – as it happened
…to move back into learning or earning. He added that the review by former government minister Alan Milburn on youth unemployment must be a “turning point” for the support offered to young people. The jobs guarantee scheme is a new government programme which has promised to create 90,000 fully funded jobs by 2029, a key part of the government’s £2.5bn drive to tackle high youth unemployment. The first young people have started their jobs under the initiative. It offers a direct route into work for all 18– 24-year-olds who have been claiming universal credit and looking for work for 18 months.…
- MMT-consistent idea: Job guarantee
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Russia says it could hit UK military targets over supply of missile technology to Ukraine – as it happened
…ing Ukraine to work with France to produce its own version. Hello, and welcome to our UK politics blog. It’s all work, work, work this morning, with the government sounding a triumphant note over its jobs guarantee scheme to get young people into work, while the prime minister is due to visit Wales to speak to workers and apprentices. The work and pensions secretary, Pat McFadden, declared “work is good for you” during a trip to Boots’s headquarters in Nottingham yesterday, where he met some of the first cohort of 18- to 21-year-olds recruited under the scheme. “It’s bad for your mental heal…
- MMT-consistent idea: Job guarantee
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‘Work is good for you’: how UK scheme could help tackle youth mental health crisis
Paid employment can boost confidence and wellbeing, says Pat McFadden as jobs guarantee scheme gets under way Work must be “part of the answer” to the mental health crisis among young people, the work and pensions secretary, Pat McFadden, has said as he met some of the first beneficiaries of Labour’s youth jobs guarantee scheme. He was speaking on a visit to Boots’s headquarters in Nottingham on Wednesday, where several 18- to 21-year-olds were taken on under the job guarantee – with their wages paid by the taxpayer for six months. Some of the recruits were packing and labelling boxes of pro…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
- MMT-consistent idea: Job guarantee
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THE LIABILITIES TRICK: THE SOURCE OF ALL OUR FINANCIAL PROBLEMS? A Polemical Inquiry into the Global Legacy of Japan's 1990s Survival Strategy
…ed to a single genetic code. That code was written in Tokyo between 1999 and 2001, when the Bank of Japan pioneered the "Liabilities Trick": the systematic decoupling of fiscal risk from monetary reality. While we acknowledge the claim isprovocative, we argue that this trick did not merely influence global finance—it became theoperating system upon which the entire post-2008 Western financial architecture was rebuilt. Without the Japanese blueprint, there would be no Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)dinner-table debates, no "Extend and Pretend" corporate culture, and no global carry-trademonster.
- MMT by name: MMT by name
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Premier League 2026-27 preview No 17: Newcastle
…enue and Newcastle’s income is around half of that of some key rivals. They are now in a three-year “settlement agreement” with Uefa after breaching European cost control regulations and, in a bid to balance the books, have not merely sold Gordon, Tonali and Guimarães but implemented a policy of broadly signing players under 25 priced between £20m and £40m. “We were living beyond our means but at some point you have got to pay the credit card bill,” said Hopkinson. Meanwhile, the seemingly interminable wait for confirmation that a new training ground will be built near the airport at Woolsin…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
- Opposing frame: Maxed-out credit card
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Cooling UK labour market ‘questions need’ for Bank of England rate hikes; grocery inflation slows to two-year low – as it happened
…No young person benefits from a race to the bottom – they deserve good, secure employment like anyone else. It’s time for the government to double down on its plans to make work pay, expand the youth jobs guarantee, and stamp out exploitative zero-hours contracts once and for all. The data showed UK wage growth, excluding bonuses, in the private sector slowed to 2.8% – the weakest growth rate since October 2020. Pay growth in the public sector accelerated to 6.1%, reflecting the payment of NHS staff pay rises earlier in 2026 compared to 2025, which distorts the figure. Jake Finney, a senior…
- MMT-consistent idea: Job guarantee
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The Political Economy of Modern Monetary Theory: A Marxist Critique
Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) has emerged as a significant heterodox challenge to neoclassical orthodoxy, arguing that sovereign currency-issuing governments face no intrinsic financial constraints and can use fiscal policy to achieve full employment. MMT offers important critiques of austerity and captures genuine operational realities of contemporary monetary systems. A systematic theoretical examination of its foundations, analytical coherence, and policy implications from a Marxist political economy perspective is therefore required. MMT’s framework exhibits four interconnected limitation…
- MMT-consistent idea: Currency issuer
- MMT by name: MMT by name
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Progressives back substitute teacher over Wasserman Schultz in Florida
…ell, a rapper best known for his role in 2 Live Crew. Manley, who is Black, grew up homeless in Fort Lauderdale’s historic Sistrunk neighbourhood. He is campaigning on universal healthcare, a federal jobs guarantee and a pledge to build “an economy where workers have rights, working families can thrive, and the wealthy pay their fair share”. Stephanie Taylor, a co-founder of the PCCC, said: “Elijah Manley isn’t just talking about the fight for working people – he’s lived it. He’s running a campaign built on Medicare for All, good jobs, and an economy that finally works for the people, not ju…
- MMT-consistent idea: Job guarantee
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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
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Tuesday briefing: To drill or not to drill – Burnham’s first big climate test
…the oil and gas industry’s own estimates, the Rosebank and Jackdaw tax take would pale in comparison. And given the scale of tax subsidies available, campaigners suggest Rosebank could actually cost taxpayers money. That means underwriting the very businesses who help to cause the climate crisis we’re experiencing. This, of course, would be exacerbated by any fossil fuels extracted by Jackdaw and Rosebank. Burning just Rosebank’s oil and gas would produce about 250m tonnes of CO2 over its lifetime. As Areeba Hamid, co-executive director of Greenpeace UK, put it to me: “Sections of the media…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money