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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I wonder if those masks would stop a bullet !
No bullet can harm someone self-protecting the The Deadly Virus!
Those woke activists seemed to have missed that they are still discriminating against women by forcing them to wear skirts. What modern military or police force expects people to take women members seriously if it looks like they might be expected to go into action in skirts and tights/stocking?
As I already wrote in the past: To these people, the military is just another bunch of government jobs without real purpose they can hijack for gainful employment of their buddies.