Patches 💫
@patchesmcgee.bsky.social
🔶 politico, amateur gym bunny 🏋🏼♂️, EV nerd ⚡🔌 & Real Housewives fanatic 🌈🏴
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A lot of coverage about Labour doing badly fails to to say that they do not have a single retail (pardon the pun) policy on this- it’s a complex issue but still hard to expect people to vote for the governing party when 500g of 5% mince costs £5 from cheaper supermarkets
👀"Butter, milk, beef, chocolate and coffee accounted for about 40 per cent of the increase in food prices over the past year. Prices for these items rose by an average of 15.6 per cent in the year to August, compared with 2.8 per cent for other foods."
Five staples fuelling UK food inflation as climate risks rise, study finds
Findings challenge narrative that food price growth is being driven by higher taxes and wage costs
www.ft.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:00 AM
A lot of coverage about Labour doing badly fails to to say that they do not have a single retail (pardon the pun) policy on this- it’s a complex issue but still hard to expect people to vote for the governing party when 500g of 5% mince costs £5 from cheaper supermarkets
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I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
August 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
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Counterpoint: you actually did vote to deport moms. What part of “mass deportations now” did you not understand?
May 31, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Counterpoint: you actually did vote to deport moms. What part of “mass deportations now” did you not understand?
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stealing like meme from my hellsite replies because lmao
April 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
stealing like meme from my hellsite replies because lmao
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Starmer's bending over backwards for these people and it will never be enough for them. They're your political enemies, start treating them as such!
What on earth is the line of thinking behind what makes this news + front line splash?
Why is later career as a lawyer/judge of somebody who Starmer had a personal relationship with at some point around 1998 + ending over > 20 years ago relevant?
(He got engaged in 2004, married 2008)
Why is later career as a lawyer/judge of somebody who Starmer had a personal relationship with at some point around 1998 + ending over > 20 years ago relevant?
(He got engaged in 2004, married 2008)
April 26, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Starmer's bending over backwards for these people and it will never be enough for them. They're your political enemies, start treating them as such!
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If you want to know how serious our decline in the UK, when North Carolina did what the Labour Government and EHRC have done, the then UK Government told LGBT+ people to beware travelling there.
(Credit to @kazhawa.bsky.social.) www.voanews.com/amp/uk-issue...
(Credit to @kazhawa.bsky.social.) www.voanews.com/amp/uk-issue...
UK Issues Travel Advisory for North Carolina & Mississippi
www.voanews.com
April 26, 2025 at 9:28 AM
If you want to know how serious our decline in the UK, when North Carolina did what the Labour Government and EHRC have done, the then UK Government told LGBT+ people to beware travelling there.
(Credit to @kazhawa.bsky.social.) www.voanews.com/amp/uk-issue...
(Credit to @kazhawa.bsky.social.) www.voanews.com/amp/uk-issue...
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I’ve asked my local MP to ask these questions to the government on my behalf. Feel free to copy and paste if useful.
April 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I’ve asked my local MP to ask these questions to the government on my behalf. Feel free to copy and paste if useful.
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As I explained in our Origin Story episode on her, Badenoch is far more transphobic than most people realise. It’s an obsession for her. As extreme as it gets. There’s no limit to what she would do if she was PM
April 16, 2025 at 12:44 PM
As I explained in our Origin Story episode on her, Badenoch is far more transphobic than most people realise. It’s an obsession for her. As extreme as it gets. There’s no limit to what she would do if she was PM
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Donald Trump: I'm going to impose massive tariffs!
Kamala Harris: Don't vote for that guy, he's going to impose massive tariffs. They'll crash the markets and kill the economy.
Trump: I think massive tariffs are great so I'm doing it.
Bill Ackman: Nobody could foresee massive tariffs.
Kamala Harris: Don't vote for that guy, he's going to impose massive tariffs. They'll crash the markets and kill the economy.
Trump: I think massive tariffs are great so I'm doing it.
Bill Ackman: Nobody could foresee massive tariffs.
April 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Donald Trump: I'm going to impose massive tariffs!
Kamala Harris: Don't vote for that guy, he's going to impose massive tariffs. They'll crash the markets and kill the economy.
Trump: I think massive tariffs are great so I'm doing it.
Bill Ackman: Nobody could foresee massive tariffs.
Kamala Harris: Don't vote for that guy, he's going to impose massive tariffs. They'll crash the markets and kill the economy.
Trump: I think massive tariffs are great so I'm doing it.
Bill Ackman: Nobody could foresee massive tariffs.
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So many hundreds of thousands of words of ink, so many countless hours wasted, explaining how this man was secretly savvy, and it turns out he’s just dumb as a rock, clueless about basic economics, and driven by a malicious paranoia that conniving foreigners are ripping us off
Trump: "I spoke to a lot of leaders -- European, Asian, from all over the world. They are dying to make a deal, but I said 'we're not gonna have deficits with your country' ... to me a deficit is a loss. We're gonna have surpluses or at worst we're gonna be breaking even."
April 6, 2025 at 11:56 PM
So many hundreds of thousands of words of ink, so many countless hours wasted, explaining how this man was secretly savvy, and it turns out he’s just dumb as a rock, clueless about basic economics, and driven by a malicious paranoia that conniving foreigners are ripping us off
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This is going to blow your mind, but it turns out that this free speech warrior doesn't actually support free speech.
Kemi Badenoch: “If you look at the reasons that the Israeli govt had given, they do not believe they are going to comply with their laws.
“I believe [MPs] should be able to go anywhere in the world and people not be worried about what they are going to do.”
“I believe [MPs] should be able to go anywhere in the world and people not be worried about what they are going to do.”
April 6, 2025 at 10:24 AM
This is going to blow your mind, but it turns out that this free speech warrior doesn't actually support free speech.
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Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements
April 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements
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How it started // how it's going
April 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
How it started // how it's going
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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
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The more coverage a story gets, the more important readers think it is.
So it matters when the NYT inflates flimsy Dem ‘scandals’ while downplaying real, criminal ones from Trump and Republicans. It’s not just bad judgment — it shapes public perception.
So it matters when the NYT inflates flimsy Dem ‘scandals’ while downplaying real, criminal ones from Trump and Republicans. It’s not just bad judgment — it shapes public perception.
March 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
The more coverage a story gets, the more important readers think it is.
So it matters when the NYT inflates flimsy Dem ‘scandals’ while downplaying real, criminal ones from Trump and Republicans. It’s not just bad judgment — it shapes public perception.
So it matters when the NYT inflates flimsy Dem ‘scandals’ while downplaying real, criminal ones from Trump and Republicans. It’s not just bad judgment — it shapes public perception.
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We are once more again seeing the distortion created by who has access to media.
Numerous columns from or about people earning "only" £150k on the horror of private school VAT but barely anything from the hundreds of thousands at risk from genuine deprivation via PIP changes.
Numerous columns from or about people earning "only" £150k on the horror of private school VAT but barely anything from the hundreds of thousands at risk from genuine deprivation via PIP changes.
Genuinely confused why everyone (i.e. some people in Westminster bubble) is aghast at the idea of a freeze to PIP rates but fairly chill at the idea of preventing c600,000 people being entitled to PIP in the first place, which will save far more money (i.e. be a larger cut to household incomes).
March 18, 2025 at 9:16 AM
We are once more again seeing the distortion created by who has access to media.
Numerous columns from or about people earning "only" £150k on the horror of private school VAT but barely anything from the hundreds of thousands at risk from genuine deprivation via PIP changes.
Numerous columns from or about people earning "only" £150k on the horror of private school VAT but barely anything from the hundreds of thousands at risk from genuine deprivation via PIP changes.
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Get in loser, we're tanking the economy
March 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Get in loser, we're tanking the economy
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This is the Republican position on trans people, that ideally they shouldn’t exist in public at all and if they do, you get to be cruel to them because you think it’s funny. This is what you commit to when you give them ground on “fairness in sports” or whatever
1. Finally some fight.
"Have you no decency!?" asked Rep. Keating after a Republican rep called Sarah McBride "Mr. McBride" repeatedly.
McBride shot back, calling the chairman "Madam Chairman."
Fireworks erupted, Dems protested, and the hearing was cancelled.
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"Have you no decency!?" asked Rep. Keating after a Republican rep called Sarah McBride "Mr. McBride" repeatedly.
McBride shot back, calling the chairman "Madam Chairman."
Fireworks erupted, Dems protested, and the hearing was cancelled.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
"Have You No Decency?": Republican Calls Sarah McBride "Mister," Dems Erupt And End Hearing
During a meeting of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, a Republican representative, Rep. Keith Self, called transgender congresswoman the "gentleman from Delaware." Dems pushed back.
www.erininthemorning.com
March 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
This is the Republican position on trans people, that ideally they shouldn’t exist in public at all and if they do, you get to be cruel to them because you think it’s funny. This is what you commit to when you give them ground on “fairness in sports” or whatever
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No one in DC can bargain in good faith with Trump because he will not follow laws passed by Congress.
No one internationally can bargain in good faith with Trump because he will not respect agreements made by the United States.
Being a counterparty just makes you a target for another shakedown.
No one internationally can bargain in good faith with Trump because he will not respect agreements made by the United States.
Being a counterparty just makes you a target for another shakedown.
March 4, 2025 at 1:34 AM
No one in DC can bargain in good faith with Trump because he will not follow laws passed by Congress.
No one internationally can bargain in good faith with Trump because he will not respect agreements made by the United States.
Being a counterparty just makes you a target for another shakedown.
No one internationally can bargain in good faith with Trump because he will not respect agreements made by the United States.
Being a counterparty just makes you a target for another shakedown.
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They need him to be a genius because they cannot handle what it means for them to be tricked by a fool.
February 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
They need him to be a genius because they cannot handle what it means for them to be tricked by a fool.
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We mock the egg price discourse but if Harris had won rising prices would have been the crisis cited as killing her presidency before it got started.
February 17, 2025 at 11:39 PM
We mock the egg price discourse but if Harris had won rising prices would have been the crisis cited as killing her presidency before it got started.
Labour MP on #politicslive claiming to have surveyed constituents who are in favour of ID cards because "they had them during the war". Remarkable she managed to talk to so many centenarians in Bassetlaw
February 12, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Labour MP on #politicslive claiming to have surveyed constituents who are in favour of ID cards because "they had them during the war". Remarkable she managed to talk to so many centenarians in Bassetlaw