What do you think of Farmers taking over London with their Tractors?

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Hundreds of UK Farmers driving Tractors have taken over London England in protest to a new law requiring farmers and their families to pay a huge tax that they consider to be totally unfair.

Here's the detailed story from the BBC...

Arrests at farmers' central London tractor protest

What do you think about this?

purplepoppy · Accepted Answer

Asking farmers to pay tax was never going to go down well. The issue is farmers are often asset rich but cash poor, that's why you always see us driving a nice new 4x4 or buying a £10,000 stud bull for our turnip farm. You never make a profit.

The thing about agriculture property relief was i was meant to keep farms in families without lumbering people with a massive tax bill because of this. It's survived several governments because scraping it would raise peanuts when you look at the bigger picture.

As for London. London has a mass protest of some sort every week, far right marches, pro Palestine, ban oil, etc, so a tractor demo doesn't cause any more disruption than they're used to. The average cyclist holds up the traffic far better than any tractor.

FreyaRed · Accepted Answer

Ali and Mohamed against James and Henry in their tractors. This will be funny.

That farmers drive their subsided hundred thousand EURO tractors through capital cities in EU belongs meanwhile to tradition. Even though UK isn't in EU anymore but mechanics of subsiding farmers remained mostly like in EU. The rule is simple, if you don't complain you don't get anything, that's why teacher, healthcare worker, farmer, miners... protest regularly despite their living standard increased massively in last 30 years.

darkcloud1945 · Accepted Answer

It might be time for the UK government to wake up, smell the dissent, and stop favoring foreigners trying to change everything to foreign values, and take care of the people who feed them. What if the farmers banded together and they all stopped selling their farm products as a nationwide action, and all farmers as one decide what a fair price is, and sell as a block for the fair price, and that all unfair taxes are canceled, or no farm product is sold till they are vacated. I wonder what would happen?

ohsheeT · Accepted Answer

Sounds like something America's government would do
Try to get the farmer to stop growing to sell there land and oh well no food no problem just that much more control

But if you want to build a data center they will buy you the property you pay no taxes they will also pay for your water your power or wait I'm sorry. they won't. But the little people will

We need to start voting smarter. That's all there is to it. One term elections

OlderAndWiser · Answer

I thought everything in the UK was peaches and cream. What a disappointment!

lightbulb27 · Answer

It doesn't pay to die a farmer in the UK does it? So don't die...

just kidding. Nothing like the govt confiscating property and kicking farmers out to replace them with... um who... migrants? What are they thinking?

DextroShade · Answer

The UK is long overdue for a revolution. Their government openly despises the native population and is actively trying to replace them while looking the other way when 3rd world savages rape their children.

DJB72 · Answer

I think they should start throwing the stuff the French farmers used, although how Starmer will tell the difference between that and what he talks is beyond me

Curmudgeon · Answer

Good for them. The indoctrinated urban eco-fiends who have no idea how their food actually has to be grown and prepared need a good swift kick.

exitseven · Answer

iT;S GREAT. The people of Great Britain are taking their country back.

Sal_Monella · Answer

Bad days are coming for the EU. Populist uprisings and maybe even fascist ethnic cleansing is on the way.

Surely · Answer

Hope the farmers are spreading crap. Just like the politicians!

Anonymous · Answer

Pathetic They have war tools like.12 bores and ammonium nitrate and could have taken the 'leadership' on properly but nothing

Anonymous · Answer

Go farmers :D

douride2 · Answer

We knew it would happen sooner or later.

NathanDavis · Answer

first time? lol...

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