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Farmers Storm Westminster in Budget Protest

November 26, 2025 GOVERNMENT, Spotlight, Tyranny 0

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ER Editor: More outing of the UK’s Labour government. Some tweets —

Some farmers have broken through to arrive at iconic Trafalgar Square —

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This gives a decent summary of how the Labour Govt. is gouging farmers through inheritance tax (IHT) —

Agricultural Property Relief (APR) was introduced in 1984 to help farmers pass their land down through generations without having to pay IHT. It was introduced to ensure that farms were not forced to break up, thus allowing the land to remain in agricultural use. The Labour government has taken an alternative approach, suggesting that large estates should make a greater contribution to public finances. As such, as part of the October budget, it was announced that APR and Business Property Relief (BPR) would be reduced such that only 50% IHT relief would be available (currently 100%) from April 2026.

The result is that landowners and farmers will effectively be taxed 20% IHT on the value of their land and agricultural assets in excess of £1m, including the land, farmhouse, equipment and potentially even livestock. Click here for more information.

Those changes are now less than a year away. After almost 40 years of being exempt from IHT, farmers who intend to pass their farm to the next generation should review their situation now to mitigate the effects of these changes.

So when a protest in London is planned for budget day, what does the govt. do? Reduce the area farmers can protest to a small area around Whitehall by way of the Met Police. Provocation on top of provocation.

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Farmers Storm Westminster in Budget Protest

WILL JONES for DAILY SCEPTIC

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.

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Featured image source: https://x.com/MartinDaubney/status/1993592917315707029/photo/1

 

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