How it’s checked

Every entry starts with a public primary source. The words shown as a quotation come from that source; signatures are kept separate from things a person said.

What belongs here

A record identifies a person, the words or signature attributed to them, the source, and enough surrounding material to judge what the passage means. Public office, institutional leadership, major prizes, or documented work in a field establish why a person is included. Inclusion is not endorsement.

Said, asked, signed

Questions are labelled as questions. A person named on a group roster is shown as a signer, never as the speaker of the statement. Policy support, numerical estimates, quotations of other people, and later qualifications remain distinct record types.

Exact words and context

Long quotations open with an unchanged prefix ending at a sentence boundary; the full quotation expands on the page. The context panel places the same words between the captured text immediately before and after them. Notes name important limits on what the passage establishes.

The checks

• Character-for-character match: the quotation appears in the captured page without a wording change.
• Spacing normalised: line breaks or repeated spaces from a transcript were collapsed for display; the words were not rewritten.
• Organiser roster: the statement publisher’s own list names the person as a signer.
• Recording check: the wording and location were compared with the audio or video.

An automatic comparison checks exact text. An AI reviewer reads the full captured source. The record names the kinds of review it received, not a score.

The same rule for everyone

Every current or former national elected official meets the same office-based notability rule. We search the same official source classes on the same schedule, apply identical statement and verification thresholds, and publish qualifying records year-round without regard to party, ideology, candidacy or election calendar.

You cannot browse this site by party. There is no party filter, no party count and no party colour anywhere on it. That is deliberate.

Dates and archives

A date is printed only when the date of the remarks is established. Otherwise the publication date is labelled, or the record says that no date was established. An archived copy is linked when one resolved. At the count date, archive coverage was 87.7 percent.

What this is not

It is not complete. Nobody has said everything, and we have not found everything anybody said. A person missing from a search result means we did not find it, and nothing more.

It is not a scorecard. There is no ranking, no score and no tally of who is on which side. Several people here are on the record saying the risk is overstated, and their words get the same treatment as everyone else's.

It is not a record of what anyone currently believes. Each record says what a person said on a date, and links a later statement when we found one.

Corrections

A source can disappear, a transcript can change, and a record can be wrong. Corrections should identify the person and the record link and explain the error; substantiated changes are made in place and the record says that it changed.

A separate page reports a door-to-door survey of 101 people, with its own limits. 101 people at their door