Tractors Are Heading For Central London As UK Farmers Protest

25 March 2024

 

 

Scores of farm tractors from all over Britain were reported to be converging on London's government district Westminster as British farmers finally ran out of patience and pushed back against what they say is a lack of government support for British food production.

Flying Union flags and displaying signs with slogan such as 'Save British farming' and 'No farming, no food, no future' they were gathering in London, about 20 minutes' drive from Westminster and plan to arrive in central London by early evening. Convoys with horns blaring were reported in various parts of London causing traffic to become gridlocked. The groups that Organised the protest, Save British Farming and Fairness for Farmers of Kent say cheap food imports and unsupportive policies put UK food security at risk.

The government, without a hint of irony, responded by claiming it put farming "at the heart of British trade". With policies like 'net zero' and 'rewilding' impacting farmers' ability to produce food economically it is difficult to see how anybody could find this credible.

"I'm a third generation farmer. I'm here for my future," Ben Stickland, 21, from West Sussex, told a BBC News reporter, "There are multiple nails being put into this coffin built around us."

The British entry into the Europe - wide farmers' rebellion comes after months of heated demonstrations in Europe, including blockades, shitfests, (French protestors dumped manure in city centres,) and government buildings being pelted with rotten fruit and vegetables. Angry farmers in Greece, Germany, Portugal, Poland, Spain and France are still demonstrating against European Union regulations and cheap imports. In Poland a couple of weeks ago a tractor protests that was joined by truck drivers closed the border with Ukraine.

Thousands of farmers also recently joined forces in Wales to fight new farm subsidy plans launched by its government.

There have been a handful of demonstrations in England, including in Kent and Cornwall, but today's tractor rally is expected to be the largest so far.

Image source, BBC/Lucy Vladev: Farmer Colin Rayner fears this year could see his farm's last harvest because of pressures on his business

Another farmer taking part in the rally, Colin Rayner, who has 2,000 acres of arable land across east Berkshire and south Buckinghamshire told the BBC that he had "no choice" but to protest, saying that business was so bad that "this could be our last harvest".

"We have been, as most farmers have been, living in our overdraft now for the last five years.

"We can't see it getting any better - yields have plateaued, prices are dismal, our costs for raw materials are horrendous and the regulations that we have everyday are mindboggling," he explained.

Mr Rayner said the environmentalist focus of the government's farm payments scheme, a policy promoted by The Green Blob as part of the anti - civilisation agenda, and which replaced EU subsidies, comes at the expense of domestic food production while cheap imports were being introduced to our supply chain to lower standards.

"We have been farming for 500 years and the government now has a scheme where they will pay us more money to grow wildflowers than to grow food. It is insanity, they want us to rewild the countryside. I just ask how are they going to feed the people living in the towns?" he said, adding "We have got to have food from our own resources. We have got to produce healthy good food - which we can do."

In England, campaigners say government agricultural policy and its Environmental Land Management farm payments scheme, together with weak trade deals, "non-existent" import controls and misleading labelling, have all served to undermine farming businesses.

They point out that these 'green' policies threaten the country's ability to produce enough food to feed its own population, "leaving our food security in peril".

 

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Police guide part of a convoy of tractors that arrived in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Paul White)

For  the past13 days Spanish farmers have blocked major roads, city centres and ports, dumping imports of cheap Moroccan vegetables and cereals on the roads and marching alongside slow moving stractors tractors into the centers of large cities.

Protesting farmers took over the port city of Santander last the weekend, bringing commercial activity to a stanstill. Today (Wednesday 21 February, farmers went ahead with planned tractor  protests in Andalusia, Extremadura, and Castilla and León, with television and radio traffic news bulletins warning of  major delays additional road closures in these regions.

There are no signs the protests are coming to an end, either.

The Union of Small Farmers and Ranchers has a schedule for tractor demonstrations stretching all the way to Feb. 27 in Córdoba. Meanwhile, the Union of Farmers and Livestock Unions has announced its next demonstration to be in Madrid later this week, with several demonstrations planned in the run-up to this.

Last Wednesday Spanish protesters paralyzed traffic for hours at the port of Motril in southern Spain, where a large part of Morocco’s fruit and vegetable shipments arrive. Several of the vans stuck inside had their holds opened and tomatoes found inside were thrown onto the road in protest at cheap imports of agricultural products from Morocco, which do not meet the stringent EU standards Spanish farmers are compelled to uphold.

Meanwhile, scores tractors and human chains have blocked the many of busiest highways in Spain, and have also made crossing the Spanish-French border at La Jonquera difficult for the past two days. 

In Guadalajara province, neighboring Madrid, protesters dumped grain on the road, while in Salamanca and other cities, cheaply imported products  bought in hypermarket chains were spread in the car pars of those stores, according to Hungarian news outlet Magyar Nemzet.

Apart from calling for easing of EU regulations, particularly those relating to the insane 'net zero' policy, and less complicated bureaucracy surrounding EU agricultural businesses, Spanish farmers are demanding that the socialist (i.e. humanity hating,) government helps them to cope with the impact on production and incomes of last year's prolonged  drought, and to ensure greater respect for Spanish agricultural products through fair prices, less red tape, and a level playing field, among other things.

The biggest farmers’ protest, planned for Madrid towards the end of the month is expected to cause major disruptions in the city and there are fears that confrontations between protestors and police could become violent.  Farmers also announced on Thursday morning of last week that they would mobilize on Feb. 26, the day EU agriculture ministers meet in Brussels.

Spain's far left Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has so far announced that the law on the food supply chain will be strengthened to ban loss-making sales and promote the sector’s needs; however, line their counterparts on Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Ital and Poland, Spain's farmers are skeptical of his  such pledges and promises and plan to keep up the pressure.

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As Boggart Blog and other alt_news community reporters told the story of the farmers protest movement as it developed across Europe we were asked many times by readers why British farmers are not protesting, when they are equally hard hit by loonytoons net zero policies, high taxes and increased energy costs (due to green levies on traditional fuels,) and constant political pressure to let good land return to a wild state lest cow farts and nitrogen emissions from fertiliser. We had to admit we did not know what was holding our lads back.

News feeds are tonight reporting that following a partial cave in by the EU ruling bureaucrats to farmers protests (reported HERE, HERE, and HERE,) farmers in the UK are staging their own protests citing similar grievances to their European colleagues but focusing more on the way retailers are profiteering from cheap imports while British farmers, their costs driven up by high taxes and fuel costs and their productivity affected by Net Zero restrictions, cannot compete.

 

The protesting farmers in Dover said they did not want to cause disruption but they wanted to raise awareness, Picture: PA Media

Today's Tractor protest clogged up roads outside Dover as farmers protested against foreign imports of food often from nations which heavily subsidise produce grown for export. Long queues developed on roads and there were angry exchanges as goods vehicles with tight schedules to meet were delayed for hours.

Kent Police told medi they were currently responding to an incident of "slow-moving vehicles" in Jubilee Way, one of the main roads heading to the port. Officers were collaborating with Port of Dover Police to keep traffic moving, a force spox said.

One farmer posted on social media that he was protesting over food trade deals done by the governmen which is determined to prioritise 'Net Zero' over productivity and jobs and will import food from anywhere rather than ease taxes and relax restrictions on CO2 emissions and use of fettiliser and pesticides to that British farmers can compete.

Jeffrey Gibson, from Yew Tree Farm in Wingham, Kent, said supermarkets were selling British produce at "cheaper than the cost of production" having used cheap imports to force down prices paid to local farmers, adding farmers would be taking their tractors to the Port of Dover on Friday evening

The protest follows similar demos in Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium, Spain and several other EU member states in recent weeks. French farmers went as far as to  move tractors to blockade routes into Paris, and elsEwhere in france block motorways with stacks of straw bales and dup piles of manure outside government buildigs in city centres, arguing they had been hit by falling incomes, high taxes, environmental regulations, red tape and competition from imports. Across Europe, farmers have also ramped up protests in Poland, Romania, Italy and Portugal.

Mr Gibson said about 30 tractors had gathered on roads around the port but were dispersed at the moment because police had blocked off many of the roads, adding: "They are not allowing us anywhere near the port."

He said protesters wanted to raise awareness of how unfairly farmers were being treated.

He said: "We produce crops to the highest standards in the world, but have to compete with imported foods containing illegal chemicals and the government does trade deals with those countries."

He said Friday's protest was only planned at lunchtime and so far about 30 tractors were taking part.

But he added: "This is just the start of something a lot bigger unless the government start to take notice."

He said protests could escalate to the level of those seen in Paris and Brussels.

"We don't want to cause disruption," he said, "we want to get the message across."

He said protesters would stay out on Friday night for as long as possible to raise awareness of their cause.

 

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Spanish farmers blocked roads across the country as they gear up for a large demonstration in Madrid later this month - Picture: screenshot from BBC News

Farmers in Spain have joined their counterparts in France, Germany and many other EU member states as the stepped up their protests across the country against EU green and globalist policies which are driving up costs and restricting productivity for European farmers while making importation of foods and agricultural products from non - EU countries easier.

Like farmers elsewhere in the EU, they are demanding more flexibility from the European Union in its regulation of farmers in member states, particularly in policies related to 'net zero' which are having a catastrophic effect on farm profitability, tighter controls on the produce of non-EU countries and more help from their government.

In several regions, the farmers tractors blocked roads and caused severe disruption to motorists.

A large demonstration is planned for in central Madrid later this month.

Today (Tuesday 6 Feb 2024), we learn from the newsfeeds that farmers took to the streets of towns in the agricultural areas in Spain's northern provinces, as convoys of tractors, hooting their horns, flying Spanish flags and festooned with placards calling on the government to stand up to the unelected  EU bureaucrats who are imposing these rules on governments.

The farmers also protested in the north-eastern region of Catalonia, the southern region of Andalusia and Extremadura in the west. The farmers share similar grievances with their counterparts in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy and other countries that have been protesting recently.

They complain that regulations which form part of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) but are now linked to the WEF's great reset and the Green Blob's dreams of a Carbon Dioxide free dead planet, which along with high fuel and energy costs, make it difficult for them to make a profit.

"The costs, when it comes to producing wheat and barley, are very high," said Esteban, a cereal farmer who preferred not to give his surname who was protesting in Aranda de Duero. "You've got to pay for fertiliser, pesticides, fuel - it's killing us. We have to pay very high prices and yet we sell at low prices." 

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Chaos Erupts In Brussels As Rubber Bullets Fired At Farmers Protesting Outside EU Parliament

 from Zero Hedge
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/chaos-erupts-brussels-rubber-bullets-fired-farmers-protesting-outside-eu-parliament

Belgian police used Rubber bullets and water cannons against hundreds of farmers who had travelled from around western Europe to protest outside the EU Headquarters in the city on Thursday. The farmers threw eggs, set off fireworks, and set fire to staw bales and rubbish fires near the building while demanding that European leaders stop punishing them with more taxes, rising costs and the loonytoons 'green' policies imposed to push the continent towards the ruling bureaucrats impossible and irrational 'net zero' targets and advancement 'green agenda' which will see European fo production destroyed and all 27 members of the European Union wannabe superstate ot empire forced to depend on imports to feed their populations, heat homes and power industry and transport.

Photo via @daniel_freund

Dirk Waem/AFP/Getty

The protests were deliberately planned to coincide with an EU leaders summit meeting, with the farmers calling on politicians and bureaucrats to scrap agricultural and environmental regulations imposed by Brussels diktat which under EU rules takes precedence over the sovereignty of national governments.

According to reports from eye witnesses posted on social media along with photograps and video, farmers have broken through the barricades outside the European Parliament and also ignited smoke bombs.

 "We want to stop these crazy laws that come every single day from the European Commission," said Jose Maria Castilla, a Spanish farmer in Brussels  to represent the Spanish farmers' union, Asaja. The protests, which started in Netherlands over a year ago come as EU leaders met to discuss a $50 billion aid package for Ukraine.

 Belgian PM Alexander De Croo said that the farmers' concerns would be added to the summit's agenda, saying "It is important that we listen to them."

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Furious French Farmers Stage Shitfest Protest In Toulouse

by Arthur Foxake, 19 January 2024

European farmers' protests spread to France as the shit hits the fan for EU leaders.

Putain de merde! A citizen looks on whilst farmers dump copious amounts of cattle related agricultural waste and rotting vegetables outside a government administrative building as they take part in a protest against taxation, declining income and difficult work conditions, in central Toulouse.

 

Inspired perhaps by the protests of farming communities in Germany and Netherlands, angry French farmers gathered in the historic city of Toulouse, South - west France this week and dumped piles of farmyard manure on the steps of City Hall and in the streets and squares in fron of other public buildings. Such shitfest protests are a favourite tactic of French farmers when they want to let their government know its policies stink. This latest demonstration of dissent from farmers is part of a movement creeping across Europe which aims to let the EU ruling commission and governments of the 27 member states know their latest batch of green policies which will limit the amount of diesel farmers can use to power tractors and self propelled implements, the amount of nitrogen based fertiliser that can be used and the amount of methane any farm unit can emit in the form of cow farts. is totally out of ordure (oops, pardon.)

The Toulouse protest, which according to spokesmen for French farming communities, will be just the first of an ongoing campaign which will follow a similar path as those in Netherlands and Germany.

The farmers' action will, they claim, continue until the government backs down over agricultural policy changes which the farm say will cause them to face increased costs and curtail productivity  leading to independent farmers going out of business. 

Nearly 400 tractors and 1,000 farmers from across southwest France converged on the city after rallying before dawn at meeting points across the region.

They made their way into Toulouse in the early morning ensuring traffic chaos throughout the rush hour, honking horns and pulling trailer-loads of hay and manure as they moved into city center, blocking entire lanes on some roads and causing gridlock in the main business and shopping areas.

Though the protests were largely ignored by French mainstream media, tractors and farm vehicles gridlock Toulouse by blocking main routes as farmers from all over southwest France protest against EU 'net zero' green policies, taxation and declining income. Picture Credit: ED JONES/AFP/Getty © via CBS News

Around 1,000 farmers gathered at the central Capitole square on foot, and a delegation was scheduled to meet the local police chief later in the day. So far the outcome of that meeting, if it took place, has not been reported.

The protesters say increased taxes and social charges are causing hardship for farmers across the region. The tax hikes and other fees come on top of increased costs for fuel and animal feed, and a general rise in the cost of living across the country as well as restrictions on agricultural activities imposed by the EU as part of its push for 'net zero'.

Elsewhere in the region, farmers targeted large suburban supermarkets, dumping manure in their parking lots. The farmers say many big supermarket chains refuse to pay fair prices for their produce.

Tuesday's protests followed a number of demonstrations in the region last November, as farmers fear for their livelihoods.

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