Patrick Harvie
@patrickharvie.bsky.social
Green MSP for Glasgow | He/Him Short, bald, frequently appalled. https://linktr.ee/patrickharvie Promoted by Patrick Harvie, 19b Graham Street, Edinburgh, EH6 5QN.
I was knocking on doors with @edinburghgreens.bsky.social ahead of the Southside Newington by-election tonight and we had the best kind of problem - we'd given away all of our window posters by the third close! 💚 Vote Isabella Gastel Alejandre @scottishgreens.org #1 on 3rd September! 🗳️
“Why is climate action so difficult?” Mainly because the people who benefit most from not acting just made $93 billion, about $700,000 per minute, in three months. www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
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'So we've heard the concerns of the Jewish community about standing a convicted neo-Nazi anti-semite as a local candidate and decided to give him a national job instead...'
Good Law Project are supporting a legal challenge against this transphobic code of practice. Please join our fight back 👇 goodlaw.social/n8fy
Fight back against the code of practice
The government’s transphobic code of practice is now up and running. But we’re not going to take it, we’re helping to fight back. Join us
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Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 15h agoOur code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx
Damaging new guidance from the EHRC will shut out Trans people from daily life simply for existing, and anyone who doesn't conform to narrow ideas of how people should look could face suspicion and confrontation. We are taking a stand against this attack on human rights.
Dishonest! I hate this “the law hasn’t changed, we’ve just clarified what it always meant” thing. Did you think women’s rights didn’t change when the US Supreme Court merely clarified what the Constitution “always meant” on abortion? Of course not.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions and Associations officially comes into effect today. See our full statement with @transsolidarity.bsky.social and @transactualuk.bsky.social on our website here: www.scottishtrans.org/ehrcs-code-o...
Nothing could be more damaging to our climate and the future of the North East than offering up even more of our North Sea to oil and gas giants. To create well-paid, long-term jobs in the North East and tackle the climate emergency, we must invest in renewables.
Sickening sycophantic self-referential crap from the likes of Fraser Nelson, Michael Gove, Andrew Neil, Trevor Phillips, Kathleen Stock, Julie Bindel & many more. Abusing people, belittling them & being convicted of assaulting your partner all count for little. We see you.
Shameful. A body that's supposed to defend equality and human rights is attempting to enforce segregation. They must fail.
Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 15h agoOur code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx
I’ve written to the Mayor of London: “I urge you now to work with councils across London to support their efforts to make sure the (EHRC) guidance cannot be used to diminish the everyday rights of 🏳️⚧️ trans Londoners and to seek the wider adoption of these approaches across our city.” [1/3]
![Letter to the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan.
Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) Code of Practice for Service
providers, Public Functions and Associations
I am writing following our conversation at Mayor’s Question Time (12 June 2026) where I raised concerns about the distress and anxiety trans Londoners tell me they are feeling following the publication of the revised Code of Practice for service providers and associations by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).
You told me that your “priority is to ensure London remains a city where everyone, regardless of gender identity, can thrive, feel safe and belong.” [1]
You'll be aware that this week, on 5 August 2026, the Government's updated EHRC Code of Practice comes into effect, following an order from the Minister for Women and Equalities.
Trans led organisations, such as Trans Actual, have maintained that the Code remains unworkable; it does not protect trans people, it does not help service providers and it does not respect the UK’s human rights obligations. [2]
Despite cross party condemnation, with 166 MPs signing Early Day Motion (EDM) 240,
tabled by Nadia Whittome MP, in an effort to halt this discriminatory guidance, there has
been no debate in Parliament.
The government's own Equality Impact Assessment admits that this code of practice would have wide-ranging negative impacts on Trans people and that Trans women could face a "disproportionate risk of violence and sexual assault.” [3]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y72k4zijlsi47z7wk262cv24/bafkreifzyqhohvnimtn7f55trm54cbxvwqcjjxkmdfuq74twtvtyacufaq)
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I would like to know what work you and your Deputy Mayors have been doing, since we spoke about this in June, to prepare for the changes coming into effect on 5 August.
Londoners need to know how you intend to uphold the rights of trans people and support service providers to remain trans inclusive.
As an elected London politician, I am particularly concerned because London has the highest proportion of people in England whose gender identity differs from their sex
assigned at birth. [4] These are people in our community, work colleagues, neighbours, friends and family members, who should be able to participate in public life without fear of being outed, harassed or discriminated against at work or in public when using a toilet or changing room.
Lambeth Council recently announced that it would challenge the implementation of the
Draft Code of Practice on Services, Public Functions and Associations. Councillors backed a motion condemning the draft code as “incoherent and self-contradictory, discriminatory, and impossible to implement in a reasonable and proportionate manner.” [5]
The motion called on the council to protect LGBTQIA+ workers and service users by
refusing to implement the guidelines should legal advice confirm that such a move would be lawful.
When we spoke at MQT in June, you said “the GLA will continue to work closely with
boroughs, service providers, community organisations and partners to ensure our services remain welcoming, safe and appropriate.” [6]
I urge you now to work with councils across London to support their efforts to make sure
the guidance cannot be used to diminish the everyday rights of trans Londoners and to
seek the wider adoption of these approaches across our city.
This is about Trans people's right to exist in society free from abuse, discrimination and
segregation, with the autonomy to be who they know themselves to be.
Yours sincerely,
Caroline Russell AM
Leader of the Green Group on the London Assembly](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y72k4zijlsi47z7wk262cv24/bafkreifwtum3lzri5qtxr2t6626xrghonytnxiodbgdnsxjvqya3jwxbmy)
The SNP's dinosaur wing now ranting about "woke" like a GB News pundit. They do still have many smart, progressive people, but they would be wise to note the number of voters now demanding not just independence but a left of centre vision for Scotland, pro-equality and pro-climate action.
Chris McCall@dennynews.bsky.social · 3d agoA veteran Nationalist has suggested Nicola Sturgeon is now "more in line with the Green party... than she is with the SNP". It comes after the ex-FM warned against the party moving away from its "environmentalist credentials".
🚨 NEW: @danneidle.bsky.social claims Scotland’s 48% tax rate has lost public revenue. But is this actually true? My new deep-dive says no – Dan’s analysis doesn’t prove anything. It’s a long read, so buckle up 🧵
I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
Almost one year ago the Scottish Government supported Green proposals to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel. The vote passed in Parliament, a historic moment. So why have Ministers not done a single thing to implement it? www.thenational.scot/news/2642085...
Israel boycott failure 'undermining Scotland solidarity with Palestine', say Greens
THE Scottish Government's failure to implement a boycott of Israel is undermining its claims of solidarity with Palestine despite ministers…
thenational.scot
Written a bit about the massive influx of abuse, threats and targeted harassment I've received due to The National reporting accurately on the far-right's activities and aims. TLDR: The National won't be silenced. www.thenational.scot/politics/264...
The far-right want to silence The National. We won't let them win
How many times do you need to be called a "c***", "scum", "traitor" or "stupid bitch" before it becomes…
thenational.scot
Open letter to the Prime Minister on new North Sea drilling 📢 Prof. Kevin Anderson & other Tyndall Centre scientists at the University of Manchester have urged Andy Burnham to rule out further development of the Rosebank/Jackdaw fields: buff.ly/aGbyTqM
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
For years, Telegraph columnists told us climate breakdown is a hoax. Now they say: it's real, but it's too late to do anything about it, so let the bodies pile high (again). Just one long list of excuses not to reduce fossil fuel use. Such newspapers bear as much responsibility as the oil firms.
Almost one year ago the Scottish Government supported Green proposals to boycott, divestment from and sanction Israel. The vote passed in Parliament, a historic moment. So why have Ministers not done a single thing to implement it? www.thenational.scot/news/2642085...
Israel boycott failure 'undermining Scotland solidarity with Palestine', say Greens
THE Scottish Government's failure to implement a boycott of Israel is undermining its claims of solidarity with Palestine despite ministers…
thenational.scot
Reform UK councillor Audrey Dempsey shared a stage with neo-Nazis at a violent rally in Glasgow on Saturday. She has now broken her silence, claiming she saw 'nobody even remotely resembling a Nazi'. But there's a problem 🧵
The UK was one of the first countries to sign the UN Refugee Convention. They made a promise that people fleeing war and persecution would be protected. To mark this anniversary, we asked Scots about their views on refugees. Here's what we found: https://ow.ly/EvMl50Zttq4
Richard Tice Last Week: “Why don’t the police give us a running commentary on the details of their investigation?” Richard Tice This Week: “Why are the police admitting that they are investigating me?”
Do you know what 'cheapens the Holocaust'? Sharing a platform with people who say they 'trust Adolf Hitler' and that Jews are 'not our people'. That's what Reform did in Glasgow yesterday. A rally where you can't move for Nazis is a Nazi rally.
The National@scotnational.bsky.social · last wk.Reform UK MSP Thomas Kerr has insisted politicians who 'casually label their opponents' as Nazis 'cheapen the Holocaust' and 'undermine the promise of never again' in response to violence erupting in Glasgow This is despite far-right demonstrators performing Nazi salutes at Glasgow Green
Scotland's facing a wave of hyper-scale data centre applications. If built they'd consume more than 1.5 times our peak electricity use, with no requirement to assess their environmental impact. We need to ensure our economy works for everyone, not just tech billionaires. ➡️ greens.scot/datacentres
Terrifying to see wildfires raging through Scotland. The climate crisis isn't a distant threat - it's right here and right now. How many warning signs and alarm bells until Andy Burnham takes action to end oil and gas drilling?
🔴 NEW - Farage claims he didn’t have to register the gifts from Harborne and Cottrell because, before June 2024, he was an “influencer and broadcaster” not a politician. Yet that claim is disproven by Farage’s own parliamentary filings…
Farage’s biggest enemy: himself
More evidence against the Reform leader, your honour...
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