This week in MMT: 26 Oct to 1 Nov 2026
Framing
210 opposing-frame mentions against 18 MMT and MMT-consistent mentions over the last 4 weeks.
Provisional Keyword matches; framing was not yet published when this summary was built.
Opposing frames on the move
| Idea | This week | 4-week average | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taxpayers' money | 425 | 378.8 | Steady |
| Household budget | 65 | 42.0 | Rising |
| How will you pay for it? | 21 | 31.8 | Falling |
| Magic money tree | 22 | 29.5 | Falling |
| Fiscal black hole | 14 | 9.3 | Rising |
| Maxed-out credit card | 8 | 8.0 | Steady |
MMT ideas on the move
| Idea | This week | 4-week average | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Currency issuer | 96 | 77.3 | Steady |
| MMT by name | 132 | 116.3 | Steady |
| Job guarantee | 46 | 30.8 | Rising |
| Taxes don't fund spending | 26 | 15.8 | Rising |
| Spend first, tax later | 21 | 14.5 | Rising |
| Functional finance | 16 | 12.8 | Rising |
| Real resource limit | 32 | 34.0 | Steady |
| Deficit myth | 15 | 16.0 | Steady |
| Deficit = private surplus | 2 | 1.3 | Rising |
| Sectoral balances | 5 | 4.5 | Steady |
Voices this week
Public figures who used the tracked ideas. Nobody else is ever named.
- Abtisam Mohamed 2 mentions · 2 opposing frames
- Matt Vickers 2 mentions · 2 opposing frames
- Andrew George 1 mention · 1 opposing frame
- Andrew Griffith 1 mention · 1 opposing frame
- Anna Turley 1 mention · 1 opposing frame
- Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb 1 mention · 1 opposing frame
- Baroness O'Grady of Upper Holloway 1 mention · 1 opposing frame
- Baroness Watkins of Tavistock 1 mention · 1 opposing frame
Worth reading
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Minister says UK apology over historic role in slave trade won’t lead to financial reparations – UK politics live
…y’s alternative budget vision. She’s defending the Tory policy of scrapping inheritance tax on family homes, and saying that the Conservatives’ main offer to voters is on “fiscal responsibility” and “living within our means”. She says that the Tories have found £70bn in savings – “the bulk of those savings have to come from welfare”. She also argues that the money would be found in reducing the size of the civil service. “We have talked about reducing budgets in departments like DCMS (Department of Culture, Media and Sports).” She also suggests cutting out government work duplication, singli…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
- Opposing frame: How will you pay for it?
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Asylum seekers still being sent to France under ‘one in one out’ weeks after scheme ended
…UK.” Maddie Harris of Humans for Rights Network questioned the purpose of the scheme as hundreds gather along the French coast waiting to cross the Channel. “Hundreds of millions of pounds of British taxpayers’ money has been transferred to the French government. Men, women and children are teargassed and beaten on the beaches, after being subjected to repetitive, violent evictions from living sites, yet people still cross to the UK. This money has done nothing but cause harm. Our government fails to acknowledge the most obvious policy to prevent dangerous crossings: accessible safe routes f…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Budget Resolutions
…ilies to be better off. That would have been real breathing space. Against all and any of those tests, the Budget has comprehensively failed. It could have been a moment when a Chancellor resolved to live within our means. Instead, this Government will have added—do they know the number?—more than £300 billion-worth of borrowing over the course of this Parliament. Borrowing is up in every single year of the forecast. The national debt now stands at the equivalent of £100,000 for every household and it is set to grow by a quarter in the next five years. Britain is walking along a fiscal cliff…
- Opposing frame: Fiscal black hole
- Opposing frame: Household budget
- Opposing frame: Maxed-out credit card
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Local Government Reorganisation
…eople across the country are left without any sense of which council will be providing services in the year and years to come, while councillors and council officials have spent millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money planning and preparing for new authorities that might never materialise. Notwithstanding the announcement that the Minister has made on funding, will he provide an estimate today of the total cost of this Government’s shambolic local government reorganisation? How much of that cost is being eaten by legal fees? The money spent on this farcical reorganisation process should have…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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The Monetary Purgatory We Are Stuck In And How It Ends
One believes we are already drifting toward MMT. The other says it ends in disaster. Neither backs down, and nobody declares a ...
- MMT by name: MMT by name
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Otmar Issing: Die Modern Monetary Theory ist totaler Unsinn.
Website: https://www.iwp.swiss/ Newsletter: https://www.iwp.swiss/newsletter Linkedin: ...
- MMT by name: MMT by name
The week in numbers
- Media framing: 48 UK news items, no change on the week before
- Social conversation: 635 posts and videos, up 7% on the week before
- Academic uptake: 0 scholarly works, no change on the week before
- Movement health: 0 public events held, down 100% on the week before
- Attention: 3,428 Wikipedia article views, down 12% on the week before
- Political uptake: 19 speeches in Parliament, up 73% on the week before