Cllr Barry McKee
@barryndgreen.bsky.social
Green Party Councillor for Bangor West. Beer loving LFC supporter, Pearl Jam 10club member, Boundary Brewing Co-op, Birder & GMB union member
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Reform in Scotland have pushed islamophobia during a by-election, advocated concentration camps for asylum seekers, and now a blatantly racist attack on Glasgow's schoolchildren.
Everyone who believes in equality, human rights and democracy must recognise this threat for what it is: fascism.
Everyone who believes in equality, human rights and democracy must recognise this threat for what it is: fascism.
Nigel Farage has been slated for a 'repulsive' and 'deeply racist' attack on Glasgow schoolchildren as part of his Scottish campaign
'Deeply racist': Fury as Nigel Farage launches 'vile' attack on Glasgow pupils
www.thenational.scot
December 4, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Reform in Scotland have pushed islamophobia during a by-election, advocated concentration camps for asylum seekers, and now a blatantly racist attack on Glasgow's schoolchildren.
Everyone who believes in equality, human rights and democracy must recognise this threat for what it is: fascism.
Everyone who believes in equality, human rights and democracy must recognise this threat for what it is: fascism.
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Belfast Sewage Scandal: The UK's environment watchdog is finally investigating. For over a decade, the Green Party has warned that our Victorian wastewater system is 'outdated and pathetic.'
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December 4, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Belfast Sewage Scandal: The UK's environment watchdog is finally investigating. For over a decade, the Green Party has warned that our Victorian wastewater system is 'outdated and pathetic.'
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As all these Spotify Wrapped posts pop up I'd like to add that in the last calendar year their CEO invested $600 mil-plus in military AI drone technology, they ran ICE recruitment ads and refused to stop, and they've also done nothing to combat a huge influx of AI-generated music on the platform.
As all these Spotify Wrapped posts pop up I’d like to remind you that Spotify pays musicians about $0.003 to 0.005 per stream, they’ve demonetized 86% of the music on the platform, and their founder/ CEO has cashed out almost $400m in shares since last summer.
December 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
As all these Spotify Wrapped posts pop up I'd like to add that in the last calendar year their CEO invested $600 mil-plus in military AI drone technology, they ran ICE recruitment ads and refused to stop, and they've also done nothing to combat a huge influx of AI-generated music on the platform.
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You ever just wish governments would call a spade a spade?
‘Changing weather patterns’ should clearly read ‘the climate crisis’ below.
If we’re ever to have any hope of cutting greenhouse gases, politicians need to get serious and call it out at every opportunity! #fixedit
‘Changing weather patterns’ should clearly read ‘the climate crisis’ below.
If we’re ever to have any hope of cutting greenhouse gases, politicians need to get serious and call it out at every opportunity! #fixedit
December 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
You ever just wish governments would call a spade a spade?
‘Changing weather patterns’ should clearly read ‘the climate crisis’ below.
If we’re ever to have any hope of cutting greenhouse gases, politicians need to get serious and call it out at every opportunity! #fixedit
‘Changing weather patterns’ should clearly read ‘the climate crisis’ below.
If we’re ever to have any hope of cutting greenhouse gases, politicians need to get serious and call it out at every opportunity! #fixedit
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They should have stood up to the bullies and fought for trans girls. I teach my girlguiding daughter to stand up for people who are being picked on but this organisation has failed to model those values. They let the bullies win. A lifelong commitment to guiding is now broken for my family. 💔
December 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
They should have stood up to the bullies and fought for trans girls. I teach my girlguiding daughter to stand up for people who are being picked on but this organisation has failed to model those values. They let the bullies win. A lifelong commitment to guiding is now broken for my family. 💔
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We need action to ensure the survival of Swfits!
Swifts are incredible birds that migrate from Africa every year, but they are in serious decline and a major reason is because their nesting sites on buildings are under threat.
Tell the Government to Save Our Swifts⬇️
greens.scot/saveourswifts
Swifts are incredible birds that migrate from Africa every year, but they are in serious decline and a major reason is because their nesting sites on buildings are under threat.
Tell the Government to Save Our Swifts⬇️
greens.scot/saveourswifts
December 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
We need action to ensure the survival of Swfits!
Swifts are incredible birds that migrate from Africa every year, but they are in serious decline and a major reason is because their nesting sites on buildings are under threat.
Tell the Government to Save Our Swifts⬇️
greens.scot/saveourswifts
Swifts are incredible birds that migrate from Africa every year, but they are in serious decline and a major reason is because their nesting sites on buildings are under threat.
Tell the Government to Save Our Swifts⬇️
greens.scot/saveourswifts
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Turns out greenwashing is easy if you own a water company.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/30/england-water-companies-issued-105bn-in-green-bonds-despite-pollution-record
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/30/england-water-companies-issued-105bn-in-green-bonds-despite-pollution-record
England's water industry issued £10.5bn in ‘green bonds' despite pollution record
River Action says use of issuance tied to environmental benefits is ‘corporate greenwash on steroids'
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Turns out greenwashing is easy if you own a water company.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/30/england-water-companies-issued-105bn-in-green-bonds-despite-pollution-record
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/30/england-water-companies-issued-105bn-in-green-bonds-despite-pollution-record
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Amnesty's new report finds that Israeli authorities are still:
🔴 Severely restricting access to vital humanitarian aid and services
🔴 Expelling Palestinians from their homes and land
🔴 Imposing conditions "calculated to physically destroy Palestinians in Gaza"
🔴 Committing genocide
🔴 Severely restricting access to vital humanitarian aid and services
🔴 Expelling Palestinians from their homes and land
🔴 Imposing conditions "calculated to physically destroy Palestinians in Gaza"
🔴 Committing genocide
Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza continues unabated despite ceasefire
More than a month after a ceasefire was announced and all living Israeli hostages were released, Israeli authorities are still committing genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip, by c...
www.amnesty.org
November 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Amnesty's new report finds that Israeli authorities are still:
🔴 Severely restricting access to vital humanitarian aid and services
🔴 Expelling Palestinians from their homes and land
🔴 Imposing conditions "calculated to physically destroy Palestinians in Gaza"
🔴 Committing genocide
🔴 Severely restricting access to vital humanitarian aid and services
🔴 Expelling Palestinians from their homes and land
🔴 Imposing conditions "calculated to physically destroy Palestinians in Gaza"
🔴 Committing genocide
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Our swift population is in sharp decline. They've fallen by two thirds since 1995 and were added to the UK's conservation red list in 2020.
But we have a simple, low-cost solution. Tell the government that now is the time to act to save our swifts.
greens.scot/saveourswifts
But we have a simple, low-cost solution. Tell the government that now is the time to act to save our swifts.
greens.scot/saveourswifts
Safe homes for Scotland’s swifts
Safe homes for Scotland’s swifts -
greens.scot
November 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Our swift population is in sharp decline. They've fallen by two thirds since 1995 and were added to the UK's conservation red list in 2020.
But we have a simple, low-cost solution. Tell the government that now is the time to act to save our swifts.
greens.scot/saveourswifts
But we have a simple, low-cost solution. Tell the government that now is the time to act to save our swifts.
greens.scot/saveourswifts
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Timid budget, timid Labour. If you’re done with continuity Tory politics that protects wealth & polluters while services fall apart, it’s time to go Green. Together, we can demand real investment, real climate action and an economy that works for people, not billionaires: greenpartyni.org/join.
November 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Timid budget, timid Labour. If you’re done with continuity Tory politics that protects wealth & polluters while services fall apart, it’s time to go Green. Together, we can demand real investment, real climate action and an economy that works for people, not billionaires: greenpartyni.org/join.
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Families left cold. Kids locked in poverty. Schools and hospitals squeezed while polluters profit. We need real transformation - fair taxes, green jobs, proper funding for public services and a future free from self-harming austerity. Not one step backward.
November 26, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Families left cold. Kids locked in poverty. Schools and hospitals squeezed while polluters profit. We need real transformation - fair taxes, green jobs, proper funding for public services and a future free from self-harming austerity. Not one step backward.
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The 50 wealthiest families own more wealth than the bottom 50% of the population.
How can this Labour Government say this is a "cost of living" budget and refuse to tax the rich?
They care about protecting power and wealth. And cost of living is a buzz phrase for them. Dire.
How can this Labour Government say this is a "cost of living" budget and refuse to tax the rich?
They care about protecting power and wealth. And cost of living is a buzz phrase for them. Dire.
November 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The 50 wealthiest families own more wealth than the bottom 50% of the population.
How can this Labour Government say this is a "cost of living" budget and refuse to tax the rich?
They care about protecting power and wealth. And cost of living is a buzz phrase for them. Dire.
How can this Labour Government say this is a "cost of living" budget and refuse to tax the rich?
They care about protecting power and wealth. And cost of living is a buzz phrase for them. Dire.
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Safe Leave Act was a Green Party victory. It was fought for & championed by Rachel Woods when she served as the Green Party MLA for North Down, and passed in March 2022. Now watch as other Stormont parties take credit for “future implementation” whilst domestic abuse victims continue to wait.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Safe Leave Act was a Green Party victory. It was fought for & championed by Rachel Woods when she served as the Green Party MLA for North Down, and passed in March 2022. Now watch as other Stormont parties take credit for “future implementation” whilst domestic abuse victims continue to wait.
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1. THIS BILL PASSED THE ASSEMBLY IN MARCH 2022.
2. IT STILL HAS NOT BEEN IMPLEMENTED AND WHEN IT IS NOBODY SHOULD GET SLAPS ON THE BACK FOR DOING SOMETHING 4+ YEARS OVERDUE.
3. SAID BILL WAS BROUGHT BY THEN N. DOWN MLA RACHEL WOODS, FROM THE GREEN PARTY. NOT THE ECONOMY MINISTER.
2. IT STILL HAS NOT BEEN IMPLEMENTED AND WHEN IT IS NOBODY SHOULD GET SLAPS ON THE BACK FOR DOING SOMETHING 4+ YEARS OVERDUE.
3. SAID BILL WAS BROUGHT BY THEN N. DOWN MLA RACHEL WOODS, FROM THE GREEN PARTY. NOT THE ECONOMY MINISTER.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
1. THIS BILL PASSED THE ASSEMBLY IN MARCH 2022.
2. IT STILL HAS NOT BEEN IMPLEMENTED AND WHEN IT IS NOBODY SHOULD GET SLAPS ON THE BACK FOR DOING SOMETHING 4+ YEARS OVERDUE.
3. SAID BILL WAS BROUGHT BY THEN N. DOWN MLA RACHEL WOODS, FROM THE GREEN PARTY. NOT THE ECONOMY MINISTER.
2. IT STILL HAS NOT BEEN IMPLEMENTED AND WHEN IT IS NOBODY SHOULD GET SLAPS ON THE BACK FOR DOING SOMETHING 4+ YEARS OVERDUE.
3. SAID BILL WAS BROUGHT BY THEN N. DOWN MLA RACHEL WOODS, FROM THE GREEN PARTY. NOT THE ECONOMY MINISTER.
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Labour’s awful migrant policies are helping pave the way for the racist far right. And they are also building a gold-plated shed at the end of that road - full of tools for a far right Govt to oppress us all.
🕵️ Digital ID database
📸 High St facial rec
👨⚖️ Removing trial by jury
🕵️ Digital ID database
📸 High St facial rec
👨⚖️ Removing trial by jury
November 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Labour’s awful migrant policies are helping pave the way for the racist far right. And they are also building a gold-plated shed at the end of that road - full of tools for a far right Govt to oppress us all.
🕵️ Digital ID database
📸 High St facial rec
👨⚖️ Removing trial by jury
🕵️ Digital ID database
📸 High St facial rec
👨⚖️ Removing trial by jury
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I have written to the Chief Executive of the IFA to raise serious concerns around safeguarding procedures, following Linfield signing a sponsorship deal with a convicted sex offender.
The IFA needs to show leadership and that it is not left to fans to highlight such matters.
The IFA needs to show leadership and that it is not left to fans to highlight such matters.
November 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I have written to the Chief Executive of the IFA to raise serious concerns around safeguarding procedures, following Linfield signing a sponsorship deal with a convicted sex offender.
The IFA needs to show leadership and that it is not left to fans to highlight such matters.
The IFA needs to show leadership and that it is not left to fans to highlight such matters.
It’s disgraceful that a @greenpartyni.org bill passed in the last Assembly mandate has still not been introduced by the failing executive at Stormont.
The Sinn Fein Minister & her department have failed the vulnerable, who need help to escape domestic violence. Northern Ireland needs #SaveLeaveNow
The Sinn Fein Minister & her department have failed the vulnerable, who need help to escape domestic violence. Northern Ireland needs #SaveLeaveNow
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
It’s disgraceful that a @greenpartyni.org bill passed in the last Assembly mandate has still not been introduced by the failing executive at Stormont.
The Sinn Fein Minister & her department have failed the vulnerable, who need help to escape domestic violence. Northern Ireland needs #SaveLeaveNow
The Sinn Fein Minister & her department have failed the vulnerable, who need help to escape domestic violence. Northern Ireland needs #SaveLeaveNow
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I first reported in October 2024 how decades of sewage underfunding means pollution flows into Belfast Lough ‘every time it rains’.
Read the latest on the issue here 👇
open.substack.com/pub/theearth...
Read the latest on the issue here 👇
open.substack.com/pub/theearth...
UK watchdog investigating Stormont departments and Utility Regulator over sewage pollution
The Earth's Corr revealed in October 2024 how decades of sewage underfunding means pollution flows into Belfast Lough 'every time it rains'
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I first reported in October 2024 how decades of sewage underfunding means pollution flows into Belfast Lough ‘every time it rains’.
Read the latest on the issue here 👇
open.substack.com/pub/theearth...
Read the latest on the issue here 👇
open.substack.com/pub/theearth...
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Making the richest in society pay more has helped Scottish Greens deliver for working-class Scots.
🚌 Free bus travel for Under 22s
🚸 The Scottish Child Payment for families
🥪 More free school meals
📈 Increased funding for local services
🚌 Free bus travel for Under 22s
🚸 The Scottish Child Payment for families
🥪 More free school meals
📈 Increased funding for local services
November 23, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Making the richest in society pay more has helped Scottish Greens deliver for working-class Scots.
🚌 Free bus travel for Under 22s
🚸 The Scottish Child Payment for families
🥪 More free school meals
📈 Increased funding for local services
🚌 Free bus travel for Under 22s
🚸 The Scottish Child Payment for families
🥪 More free school meals
📈 Increased funding for local services
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according to the EHRC, if you look too trans, you can be banned from all toilets. if they don't provide an alternative? well that happens.
the institutional cruelty to our community is baffling.
the institutional cruelty to our community is baffling.
If the EHRC had their way we'd see all women forced back into wearing only skirts and dresses and wearing their hair long lest they be suspected of being trans and banned from going to the toilet.
That's what this is suggesting. Masculine women being denied access alongside trans people.
That's what this is suggesting. Masculine women being denied access alongside trans people.
![The guidance said that if transgender people are excluded from a space, organisations should consider whether there is a suitable alternative for them and that it would not be proportionate to leave them without essential services, such as access to lavatories.
But it also outlines how in some cases that may not be possible owing to the physical constraints of buildings or high costs. It said: “It may be that offering alternative arrangements is not reasonably possible […] this may be because of the type of service being provided, the needs of the service users, the physical constraints of any building, or because of the disproportionate financial costs associated with making those arrangements.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:movr4wsu2du5xbmeragyr5cx/bafkreigp3qse73rzhl2czgxgbmpzectwrb4hdwxk44fm52m7l7cu36mwaa@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM
according to the EHRC, if you look too trans, you can be banned from all toilets. if they don't provide an alternative? well that happens.
the institutional cruelty to our community is baffling.
the institutional cruelty to our community is baffling.
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The Supreme Court ruling on mandatory Christian worship in NI schools is a major step forward.
Huge respect to the father and daughter who took this case.
No child should be pushed into a worldview that isn’t theirs. It’s time for modern, balanced and pluralistic RE in NI.
Huge respect to the father and daughter who took this case.
No child should be pushed into a worldview that isn’t theirs. It’s time for modern, balanced and pluralistic RE in NI.
November 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
The Supreme Court ruling on mandatory Christian worship in NI schools is a major step forward.
Huge respect to the father and daughter who took this case.
No child should be pushed into a worldview that isn’t theirs. It’s time for modern, balanced and pluralistic RE in NI.
Huge respect to the father and daughter who took this case.
No child should be pushed into a worldview that isn’t theirs. It’s time for modern, balanced and pluralistic RE in NI.
I work in social care, and I know firsthand how badly this pay decision has hit workers and will impact the families relying on us. As a Green Party councillor, I’m standing with those affected and pushing for a fair, reliable social care system that treats people with dignity.
1/ Social care in Northern Ireland is in meltdown. Care workers were promised a fair pay increase, but the government’s U-turn has destroyed that hope. Thousands are trapped on wages that can’t even cover basics, while vulnerable people lose vital support.
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November 18, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I work in social care, and I know firsthand how badly this pay decision has hit workers and will impact the families relying on us. As a Green Party councillor, I’m standing with those affected and pushing for a fair, reliable social care system that treats people with dignity.
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“It isn’t people seeking sanctuary who are tearing our country apart. It’s toxic, racist narratives and the scapegoating of migrants for crises they did not cause.”
Carla Denyer challenges the Home Secretary's new immigration reforms saying they just fuel far-right narratives.
Carla Denyer challenges the Home Secretary's new immigration reforms saying they just fuel far-right narratives.
November 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
“It isn’t people seeking sanctuary who are tearing our country apart. It’s toxic, racist narratives and the scapegoating of migrants for crises they did not cause.”
Carla Denyer challenges the Home Secretary's new immigration reforms saying they just fuel far-right narratives.
Carla Denyer challenges the Home Secretary's new immigration reforms saying they just fuel far-right narratives.