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One of the biggest corporate donors to the populist Reform U.K. party has sold almost $2 million worth of transmitters, cockpit equipment, antennas and other sensitive technology to a major supplier of Moscow’s blacklisted state weapons agency, documents show.

From 2023 to 2024, the company, part of the British aerospace manufacturer H.R. Smith Group, shipped the equipment to an Indian firm that is the biggest trading partner of the Russian arms agency, Rosoboronexport.

H.R. Smith Group donated 100,000 pounds (just under $130,000) to Reform U.K. last year, two days after Nigel Farage was announced as the party’s leader. The company is run by Richard Smith, a businessman who owns 55 Tufton Street, a Westminster townhouse that is home to some of Britain’s most influential right-wing lobbying and research groups.

One of the biggest corporate donors to the populist Reform U.K. party has sold almost $2 million worth of transmitters, cockpit equipment, antennas and other sensitive technology to a major supplier of Moscow’s blacklisted state weapons agency, documents show. From 2023 to 2024, the company, part of the British aerospace manufacturer H.R. Smith Group, shipped the equipment to an Indian firm that is the biggest trading partner of the Russian arms agency, Rosoboronexport. H.R. Smith Group donated 100,000 pounds (just under $130,000) to Reform U.K. last year, two days after Nigel Farage was announced as the party’s leader. The company is run by Richard Smith, a businessman who owns 55 Tufton Street, a Westminster townhouse that is home to some of Britain’s most influential right-wing lobbying and research groups.

Blimey. One of Nigel Farage's biggest donors, and the owner of 55 Tufton Street, is helping the Russian military effort www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w...

28.03.2025 16:27 — 👍 3231    🔁 2039    💬 165    📌 147
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We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham

28.03.2025 21:50 — 👍 14783    🔁 4889    💬 544    📌 497
🚨 No one should spend 12 yrs in jail for stealing a mobile phone! It’s unthinkable! #IPPscandal
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic 🚨 No one should spend 12 yrs in jail for stealing a mobile phone! It’s unthinkable! #IPPscandal

🚨With reports Prisons are at 99% capacity surely now is time for the government to get behind Lord Woodley’s Bill for the resentencing of IPP prisoners - which I’m supporting

It will end one of the most cruel & monumental injustices of the past half-century once & for all

youtu.be/nkBs2D0Wz_g?...

28.03.2025 08:56 — 👍 492    🔁 151    💬 14    📌 4
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'What a liar. What an almighty, irredeemable, hideous liar.'

@mrjamesob.bsky.social reacts as Donald Trump claims ignorance over the White House leaking war plans.

25.03.2025 11:55 — 👍 698    🔁 197    💬 83    📌 23
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Andrew Tate and his brother are appearing in court tomorrow in Romania.

If you want them both to be locked up, like.
If you really want them to be locked up, RT.

23.03.2025 20:41 — 👍 1278    🔁 588    💬 47    📌 14
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Surreal. US Congressman Mike Johnson who is Speaker of the House of Representatives says of Elon Musk firing the Veterans Affairs Suicide Hotline,

"There are going to be some mishaps and mistakes along the way"

How do you accidentally fire staff working for a suicide hotline 🤷‍♂️

09.03.2025 08:23 — 👍 355    🔁 92    💬 27    📌 5
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Let’s go for it! Tell everyone you know to join @bsky.app and TOGETHER let’s send them packing

08.03.2025 18:51 — 👍 12992    🔁 3517    💬 270    📌 77
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08.03.2025 18:56 — 👍 48440    🔁 6420    💬 1552    📌 402
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Wow…

08.03.2025 21:41 — 👍 31443    🔁 8504    💬 548    📌 505

I would only miss Tabasco and Green and Blacks chocolate

02.02.2025 23:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I know exactly how you feel. 8 months on. You get used to it after a while. Not so much the dirt and dust settling on our house and garden ☹️

02.02.2025 22:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I know now living with a birder - ‘there is no species known as a Seagull’.

02.02.2025 22:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Or Andy Burnham 😉

01.02.2025 21:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hello there

26.01.2025 12:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Heil Tesla
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys Heil Tesla

The world’s richest man is promoting the far right in Europe. Don’t buy a Tesla
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Location: Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjWl...

23.01.2025 14:42 — 👍 6628    🔁 3084    💬 218    📌 356
Heil Tesla
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys Heil Tesla

Not just some people, but all people—on Earth—must watch this video and share it as widely as possible.

Every word of it is true, and it confirms that Elon Musk is a white supremacist leader stoking violence around the world.

His two televised Nazi salutes were exactly what you thought they were.

23.01.2025 17:53 — 👍 2720    🔁 1490    💬 123    📌 145
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Denmark telling Mr Trump to fuck off.

If this is a message you endorse, spread it.

22.01.2025 13:41 — 👍 4085    🔁 1679    💬 133    📌 176
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Brilliant satirical cover from Private Eye, mocking spineless media organisations and journalists who submit and cower in the face of power 👏

22.01.2025 10:53 — 👍 32397    🔁 6657    💬 416    📌 328

Word of day is ‘unasinous’ (17th century): united in stupidity.

A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.

22.01.2025 09:05 — 👍 7162    🔁 1924    💬 185    📌 207

Well to be fair on Christmas Day the store will be closed. So let them play some Christmas music on the run up - not before December though

23.12.2024 22:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I have a few followers here and not so many on twitter (it will always be twitter). I duck in and out of both and am encouraged by the warriors going for the likes of Isabel Oakeshott. We need to keep a beady on our enemy.

04.12.2024 21:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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