Police Arrest Farmers for Bringing Tractors to Protest

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The planned farmers’ 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 legal support to every farmer protesting peacefully today.

— Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) November 26, 2025

Farmers from across the UK have headed to London as the industry continues to demand fairness and a future for British farming.

It comes after the Met Police disrupted farmers’ plans, stating whilst protesters would be able to attend conditions have been put in place to prevent protesters from bringing vehicles, including tractors or other agricultural vehicles to the protest.

Farmers attending the event accused the police of ‘two tier policing’ expressing frustration and anger at the last minute change, when many groups had already set off.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves will announce the Autumn Budget 2025 at 12:30pm today (November 26) as farmers gather outside Westminster waiting to hear whether their year long lobbying effects and protests have been heard and the changes to Inheritance Tax reversed.

Conditions have been placed on the farmers protest planned for tomorrow in Westminster.

People will still be able to demonstrate, however, conditions have been put in place to prevent protesters from bringing vehicles, including tractors or other agricultural vehicles, to the…

— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) November 25, 2025

SOURCE: FarmersGuardian

Farmers Storm Westminster in Budget Protest

WILL JONES

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.

Via The Daily Sceptic

 

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