Farmers are arriving in Westminster to protest against Labour’s farming inheritance tax raid which has seen the Prime Minister being branded as “Starmer the farmer harmer.”
The protest has been organised by Save British Farming (SBF) and Kent Fairness for Farmers who are warning the tax raid is the “straw that broke the camel’s back.”
SBF founder Liz Webster said the Prime Minister “is pulling the rug from under farmers’ feet, aiming to dismantle British farming as we know it.
“But farmers are resilient and united in this fight.”
National Farmers’ Union president Tom Bradshaw said, “These events reflect the strong feelings across the agricultural community. We hope they are well-attended and farmers’ voices are heard.”
Tractors making their war to London on Wednesday morning had slogans reading, “Starmer the farmer harmer” and “Keir Stalinarmer, global laughing stock – stop the death tax.”
Nigel Farage spoke on Wednesday about the protests, he told The People’s Channel, “I’m really pleased – not only that tractors are here – they’re in Scotland, they’re in Wales, they’re in Yorkshire.”
He was asked what he wanted MPs to think when they see the protests in Westminster, Farage said, “I think this world of rural England, of farming and fishing… I think this current group of MPs are more disconnected from that world than at any time since Parliament first sat 800 years ago.
“They have no comprehension… We have a politics which is dominated by a huge urban majority [with] no comprehension of what food is or where it comes from.
“The English countryside, to them, is something they drive through, and they think it’s muddy and a bit wet. There is a real disconnect – but there is a silent majority of people in Britain who do understand this.
“Compare this to Palestinian protests, I would say that actually the disruption is minimal. Just Stop Oil close these roads without permission! These guys have done it the right way, the disruption to people’s lives is minimal.
“The one thing that might turn the public against it is if we behaved a bit more like the French, whose protests are very violent.”
He was then asked if the farmers should go further and withhold food over Christmas, Farage said, “I’m not going to encourage them to produce food shortages… That’s entirely up to them.”
“Labour have got approximately 100 MPs who are representing rural or semi-rural constituencies… If Labour think they will lose those 100 seats, they will get a change,” Farage added.
