Farmers Storm Westminster in Budget Protest
Furious farmers have brought London’s rush hour traffic to a standstill in defiance of a tractor ban by driving to Westminster as they protest against Rachel Reeves’s Budget and the ‘family farm tax’ that will force many to sell up. The Mail has more.
Agriculturists were banned from bringing their tractors amid plans for protests against controversial UK inheritance tax reforms, known as ‘family farm tax’, yesterday.
At the 11th hour, the Metropolitan Police announced that today’s demonstration against the ending of inheritance relief will be restricted to a small, designated area of Whitehall.
Farmers were no longer allowed to protest outside Downing Street and were pushed to a side road as the force said it could “result in serious disruption to the life of the community”.
But, they have since parked more than a dozen tractors outside Parliament in defiance of Met police restrictions prohibiting agricultural machinery from the area.
They repeatedly sounded the tractor horns while police stood watching, with rush-hour traffic brought to a standstill.
This morning, tractors travelled to the capital, with one green tractor spotted with a dragon on the back, as well as the words: “I save my labour. RIP farming.”
The move against the demonstration – [a demonstration] being organised by Berkshire Farmers but involving farmers from every corner of the country – was met with fury and accusations of “two-tier policing”.
Speaking to Sky News, organiser Dan Willis from Berkshire Farmers said he was “absolutely devastated” by the restrictions on their demonstration.
“We had already got the word out to everybody, it was impossible. They were coming anyway,” he said.
“The Met, unfortunately, have scored an own goal here and created carnage. We know it’s come from the Government.
“We know they don’t want to listen to us in the house or on the street, but we need to exercise our right to protest, and at the end of the day, that is what’s happening today.
“This is such an emotive issue, you are talking about death and losing family assets, which is how we earn our living and by the way, produce our food.
“Taxing the working people of this country, it is impossible to go on.”
The farmers then shoved red boxes with the words, ‘Who needs food’, ‘Taxed to death’, ‘Budget 2024’, into farm machinery, which spat out shredded remnants.
A woman told the broadcaster: “Look at these young people around you now, all these young people want to go farming, and you are going to stop them doing their jobs
“We need them to be able to carry on these businesses and bring the food to this country, and the food the people want in this country.
“The British people want British food, and that’s more important. This inheritance tax is just stopping all these young people from their jobs.”
Meanwhile, others driving around the streets of the capital city were seen with signs that read: ‘No farms, no food, no future,’ as well as ‘fools vote for Labour’.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Some farmers have been arrested after defying police orders to move. The Telegraph has more.
The Metropolitan Police confirmed on Wednesday that “a number of individuals” had been arrested after it issued restrictions preventing tractors from being driven into the area.
Protesters were seen being led away in handcuffs in Trafalgar Square as farmers rallied against proposed changes to inheritance tax, ahead of Rachel Reeves’s Budget being unveiled.
Officers made their way through the crowd at Trafalgar Square at about 10.15am, an hour into the protests, informing farmers that under section 14 of the Public Order Act they were liable for arrest.
A Met spokesman said: “Anyone breaching conditions by bringing vehicles, including tractors or agricultural vehicles, to today’s farmers’ protest will be asked by officers to leave.
“If they refuse to comply with the conditions, officers will have to make arrests for offences under the Public Order Act. We have already spoken to a number of individuals this morning to advise them of the conditions.
“The majority have listened to officers and complied with the conditions; however, several arrests have been made.”As the arrests took place, one farmer shouted: “Cuffing the hands that feed you,” while another said: “They’re making a spectacle out of him, it’s sad to see.”
Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, said: “The farmers’ planned protest on Whitehall has been cancelled by the police at the last moment.
“They have come to London and are now being arrested. This is outrageous. Reform UK will provide full legal support to every farmer protesting peacefully today.”
Officers who had previously helped farmers park their tractors were reportedly telling them to get back in their cabs and move on. Most complied, with some resorting to driving in circles around Trafalgar Square and others heading off down Whitehall on foot to their approved protest spot.
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About once a month I hear too late of demonstrations I would have liked to support. This would have been one. We will need a very big demonstration soon in response to the budget, loss of jury trial and much else.
Animals – except Humans it seems – know to protect their food source. Pet owners think their dogs and cats “love” them, but in reality they recognise their owners as their food source and behave accordingly.
Our rulers have abandoned farmers and fisherman for political and ideological consideration.
Of old, kings and chiefs knew their tenure relied on them ensuring their people got enough food. Failure to do that and the people changed their leadership.
The end can’t be far away now.
They have angered everybody now.
let them eat cake.
“Let them eat 💩.”..if it was the French farmers as the traitorous stasi police would be swimming in slurry. Disgusting pillocks!
Excellent points!
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The farmers are the lifeblood of this country and I support them 110%.
If I was in England I would have been there.
This is all of our fight.
It’s personal now.
100%.
I think the farmers being arrested for peacefully protesting made the mistake of demonstrating overt patriotism coupled with opposition to Labour’s policies, when what they should’ve done is rock up with Palestine flags attached to their tractors, their faces covered in tea towels. Shouting something about genocide might also have helped, but not of any Christians in Africa, though. I reckon the Met would’ve looked the other way and left them alone then;
”This is an utter outrage
Farmer arrested in London
Shameful day by Met
@RachelReevesMP
public & farmers will not be silenced
We stand with our farmers together.”
https://x.com/alanvibe/status/1993624171520438419
Quite right and I posted something to exactly that effect on linked in earlier.
More staple diet from the Daily Muck, omitting facts like: “Viscount Rothermere owns significant farmland, including approximately 4,700 acres within his Bryanston Estate in Dorset and other land in Wiltshire. His holdings include both land used for farming tenants and a mixed farming entity, showing a direct ownership of farmland”. Is His Highness (DM’s current owner and DT’s soon to be) and his fellow aristo-farmers* paying ANY tax including inheritance? Or, have the self-censoring pros abandoned investigative journalism? *The Duke of Buccleuch & Queensberry: Richard Scott manages Buccleuch Estates, which includes around 11,200 acres in Northamptonshire and other land across Scotland used for farming and rural land management. The estate also has a foods business. The Duke of Westminster: The Grosvenor Estate, currently managed by Hugh Grosvenor, includes the 11,500-acre Eaton estate in Cheshire, which features extensive agricultural land. The estate is one of the most valuable in the UK due to significant London property, but its rural holdings are substantial. The Earl of Leicester: The 25,000-acre Holkham estate in Norfolk has extensive farming operations and is a major landowner in the county. The Earl of Iveagh: The 20,664-acre Elveden Estate in Suffolk, owned by Edward Guinness, includes a working… Read more »
Aristocrats are liable for all taxes. The monarchy does not have to pay tax to ‘itself’ (HMRC), but can and does volunteer to do so in certain areas. Vocational farmers often can only afford to rent farms and landowners enable this. There is no such thing as equality, only equality of opportunity. Wilful destruction of British agriculture and business, aggravated by dry taxation on ownership and other sources comprise this government’s bitter harvest. Yes, only fools vote Labour.
Hear, hear!
” Are the aristo-farmers* paying ANY tax including inheritance?” asked the Sneering Politics-of-Envy Marxist.
You can be sure that they are all paying a lot more tax than any of the MILLIONAIRES from the INDIAN SUBCONTINENT, where the wealthy pay almost NO TAXES, and the whole tax burden is forced upon the MIDDLE CLASS and THE POOR.
Quite right. Ask Arun Advani.
The luring effect of the Agent Provocateur Fragrance numbed the censors of some people’s minibrain and the mask was dropped. Marxist! Neo-Nazis use the label “Marxist” as an unfounded accusation to discredit and attack anyone who seeks social justice and equal rights. This tactic, known as Red-baiting, involves baselessly associating individuals or groups with communism and socialism to provoke fear and discredit their arguments, regardless of whether their views are actually aligned with Marxist theory. The false accusation of “Marxism” is often driven by the “Cultural Marxism” and its clones including McCarthyism. The “Cultural Marxism” theory is a modern revival of older antisemitic propaganda – the Nazi term “Cultural Bolshevism,” which was used to attack Jews in the 1930s, eventually leading to historic mass murders. At that time, Phobia of Bolshevism also induced British aristocrats to support Hitler, namely, The Mitford Sisters. Sir Oswald Mosley, 6th Baronet with deep aristocratic roots who advocated for an alliance with Hitler and Mussolini. The Cliveden Set, a group of influential, upper-class Nazi sympathizers, led by Nancy and Waldorf Astor, who advocated for appeasement with Germany. Lord Londonderry, and Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, the powerful newspaper magnate who owned the Daily Mail with its headline yelling “Hurrah for the Blackshirts!” (with a few now haunting… Read more »
English Nature and thr National Trust (both communist, DEI job creation schemes (for women and Brown people only) are the biggest land owners in this country nowadays.
The communist own us and you. When are you going to realise that the wealthy landowners are friends of rhe workers. The middle class socialists hate them. It was the middle class that caused soviet communism that led to the deaths of millions.
Foolish in the extreme to to follow socialist propaganda about ‘rich people’
“When are you going to realise that the wealthy landowners are Friends of the Workers?”
Grim Ace, you must be the only person in the entire world with the sheer courage to speak this ancient truth !
“Noblesse Oblige” it was called in the old days, and still holds true…
It really is “Two-Tier Anti-White Policing”. Guess who suddenly banned this Farmers Protest ONLY 9 HOURS before it was due to start, after months of friendly discussions between the farmers and the police, who had been very helpful at the previous tractor protest, and gave the farmers assurances that it was all going ahead without any problems?
It was ONE ETHNIC AFRICAN WOMAN, whose parents are from Guyana in South America, and who apparently married a Muslim Iranian man and took his Iranian name of Heydari.
Here she is, “Commander” Alison Heydari, pictured here at the “National Women of Colour in Policing” conference (she’s the tallest one in the middle, surrounded by hijabs), which was founded by two Ethnic African women in the police force. “She is now on secondment to the National Police Chiefs’ Council as Programme Director for the National Police Race Action Plan.”
Of course “Women of Colour in Policing” includes all colours except WHITE.
Is there a “White Women in Policing” organization, by any chance?
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God help us!
Amen to that! We in the West are slowly waking up to the fact that Communist Subversives have been going out into the Third World for decades, stirring up the entire Third World with a False, Bloated Sense of Entitlement and Victimhood, urging them to swarm into the West, exterminate the White Man, and replace him.
What the Third World don’t realize is this: the reason the Communist Globalists are using them as a Proxy Army to exterminate Ethnic Europeans is because The White Man is the only thing standing in the way of the Satanic Globalist Plan to Enslave Humanity, and turn the whole world into Hell on Earth, like Haiti is now, after they massacred every White Man, Woman & Child in Haiti long ago, in an orgy of blood, beheadings and slaughter.
Now the Haitians have descended into CANNIBALISM … WORSHIPPING SATAN.
They should have worn hamas masks and had Palestinian flags, then they’d have had NO problems bringing in as many tractors as they wanted.
I despise the police. State enforcers. Traitors to their people. Two Tier Kier police. You will get no help from me, communist plod.
I don’t care that they are just doing their job. That was the excuse of nazi police, gestapo, etc.
This country is headed for major public disorder. There are so many things wrong that the hard working people will eventually have had enough. Anger works – Muhammadans regularly show that to be the case. Time we native British got angry
Not all police! I believe there are still many good, honest, admirable, courageous police officers all over the land, but their voices and views are silenced and suppressed, and Communist Third World Invaders are placed in command positions above them by Western Communist Enablers, while the good police are driven out. Just as in the military and intelligence services… and legal system…
Is there any news of the Farmers Arrested at their protest in London yesterday?
I hope they have all been released, and are safely back at home on their farms.