Farmers Threaten to Bring Britain to a Standstill Over Inheritance Tax Raid as Hundreds of Tractors Descend on Central London
Farmers have threatened to bring Britain to a standstill in a “war” against the Government’s inheritance tax raid as hundreds of tractors descended on central London today. The Telegraph has more.
Hundreds of tractors descended on central London today to protest the policy that sets a 20% tax on assets worth more than £1 million.
Vehicles lined up in Westminster on Wednesday morning before tractors, many decorated with Union flags and signs that read “No farmers, no food”, began a slow drive through the capital.
Matt Cullen, a protest organiser with Kent Fairness For Farmers and a beef farmer, issued a warning to the Prime Minister that protests could get worse if the Government did not reconsider.
He told the Telegraph: “At the end of the day, this is war. We hold the cards.
“We can bring this country to a standstill if we want to.
“They don’t appreciate anything farmers do – they don’t understand what we do.”
Liz Webster, founder of Save British Farming, told Sky News that farmers could also cut off food supplies in protest of the tax raid come the new year.
She said: “We would consider holding back supplies to show what we do.
“So yes, we will go to those efforts because we want the country to wake up to what the Government are doing, and if we rely on imported food, you will be looking to pay a lot more for lower-quality food. And if there [are] climate events, a war, then we are at risk of real problematic food shortages.”
It comes after more than 10,000 farmers, including Jeremy Clarkson, took to the streets of London last month.
Similar go-slow protests took place in Dover on November 27th, with tractors blocking traffic and taking up two lanes of a main road.
Attending the protest, Nigel Farage, the Reform U.K. leader, encouraged farmers to keep campaigning across the country.
He told the Telegraph: “In the 100 rural constituencies Labour now holds, they have to keep up this pressure. It has to be persistent in every market town.
“I believe this campaign will win but it won’t happen quickly and it will take time.”
In a direct message to the Government, Mr. Farage added: “Wake up and smell the coffee, it’s happening. You are going to lose all the seats in those rural areas if you don’t change the rules.”
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By ‘climate events’ I assume she means weather. 100% certainty I’d have thought.
Well I’m on the side of the farmers, I don’t think Starmer has the constitution to reconsider, on the contrary I think he’s more likely to go all Trudeau on them…. This might get very interesting…
Surely the farmers will be allowed to continue protesting if they rebrand themselves “Farmers for Palestine”? The police wouldn’t dare interfere then.
Nice one. Or Stinking Rebellion?
There is a very real risk, he will…his controllers cannot allow the project to fail, which was why Turdeau was so very nasty.
The government doesn’t value independent farmers. To be honest, they probably need all that land for solar panels, wind farms and battery banks to achieve their silly zero carbon power supply network dream. Or to build on. They’ve got to find somewhere for their new prisons and illegal immigrant holiday camps…
Or for big Argi to buy up all the land and mass produce all the grasshoppers, mealworm and other forced food that we all will be required to eat in the near future! (Except the elites of course)
I buy mealworms but only for the Blackbirds & the Starlings.
This is not just about inheritance tax…..now there is talk of banning Muck Spreading, while jacking up the price of Fertiliser….this attack is as mad as the Dutch one was…which means it is coming from the WEF goons. The Farmers will likely get no help from Starmer , as he is under orders…they will have to wait till the next election and we the people better make sure we sling them out forever.
And we the people had better make sure to ABOLISH MANDATORY FIVE YEAR GOVERNMENTS, like the Soviet “Five Year Plans”.
Bring back the VOTES OF NO CONFIDENCE that allowed the people to turf out governments that violated the democratic will of the people.
Stopping muck spreading is something the farmers can do to cause the water companies a massive problem with their sewage sludge.
No coverage on the BBC News, as expected……..disgraceful. They have their heads in the sand [or up some other dark place…]
I sent a TXT to Five Live along the same lines this morning, I said they might start to notice when there’s food shortages.
It was reported on BBC Radio 4’s Six O’Clock News. I don’t know about BBC television news, I don’t watch it.
Once a group of people gets together and realises the unassailibility of their power then there is nothing the state can do to stop them, especially in a demoralised country that begs for anything other than the status quo. A mass movement behind farmers means a swift end to corrupt entrenched power. They are so high on their own supply that they can’t even see this as a threat and therein lies their downfall.
If only it were so simple… Dominic Frisby explains why there won’t be a Revolution..
https://youtu.be/HwT7RtN44Fc?si=ne-lWd7IEiTQbm8U
The right to bear arms in the UK would be my first UK ammendment
So here we have both sides of the coin being controlled by the same narrative. 1- “Farmers Threaten to Bring Britain to a Standstill” is the kind of headline that provokes a knee-jerk response from readers. I will leave you to decide but whichever side of the argument you stand on, you can see that very same narrative being seeded in a negative light over time at the following links (April 2022) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10816883/RMT-president-threatening-bring-Britains-railways-standstill-Putin-apologist.html (April 2019) https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/murdering-soldier-threatens-bring-britain-standstill (Mar 2019) https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1103060/brexit-news-Brexit-Direct-Action-protest-m25-motorways-article-50-delay-theresa-may (Aug 2018) https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/protestors-bring-britain-halt-fury-19116170 This is not unusual for Will Jones, the narrative is designed to portray ‘The Farmers’ as some sort of out of control nefarious mob. Similar headlines will run in the tabloids tomorrow, riling up the nation against those damn farmers 2 – What was actually said Clive Bailye ““If Tuesday doesn’t work then the Government will have picked a fight with the wrong group of people. Farmers have lots of vehicles and equipment and if they wanted they could shut down every road in Britain. That could be their next move if there’s no shift by the Government – people who feel they have nothing to lose will do anything.”” Liz Webster “So yes, we will go to those… Read more »
Nonsense! Will Jones is just reporting on an article in The Telegraph, which quite rightly shows that farmers are angry enough to take effective action, just like the French farmers so often do.
There is nothing wrong with that.
Nigel Farage gets the crucial point: that it will be much more effective for the farmers to launch coordinated tractor protests ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, instead of just focusing on London.
“Attending the protest, Nigel Farage, the Reform U.K. leader, encouraged farmers to keep campaigning across the country.
He told the Telegraph: “In the 100 rural constituencies Labour now holds, they have to keep up this pressure. IT HAS TO BE PERSISTENT IN EVERY MARKET TOWN.”
The farmers should stop the foreign food imports next.
Cause some serious damage, get some big hitters reigned against the lefties. The lefties are actually quite weak people if pressurised, just a bunch of over-promoted school teachers and librarians – like Cameron and May
I’m sure they could get one of those waste tanker slurry jets to pump excrement over the fence into N0 10. Then stop by the BBC Broadcasting House similar to what the Dutch farmers did with their captured media. Give them something to clean up.
Yes, that’s a good idea — the Leftists do love their foreign food imports.
Every region. Maybe you don’t like South Wales because it is full of smack heads. They got that way for a reason. They were seriouslly hard-working bastards before. You pick them all up even the lowest. As a country there would be a huge morale boost. And with good leadership we could move onto brighter things. Don’t let these sad tossers try to convince you that there is no way back. Many things become possible with the right application of mind.
I think SStarmer & Reeves needs a bit of this treatment from farmers!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBdvWsOdeGw
The big question being why the useless leader of the opposition went with immigration for which she has an appalling back story rather than farming
Do you mean the Nigerian Birth Tourist?
Just heard Farage discussing this on his show. The female guest called Labour liars to which Nigel replied with “strong words”…..She should’ve replied with something like….Just for fairness the Tories have been lying about immigration for years!
It’s just time everyone took to the streets and smashed this rotten WEF governance from LGBT ,BLM ,Climate change
Lets make them all net zero
I am with them, and happy to suffer a little if they start restricting supplies. Labour communists are just the most vile people. The blue socialists (toeies) weren’t much better.
How is it that all the parties have adopted socialists policy directions? I fecking despise them all. Communists of different colours.
The farmers need to keep the public onside. That means not disrupting Christmas and delaying their blockades until the New Year.
Then come down hard and not let up.
Yup….Play the long game.