Farmers stand defiant against the Met Police and brilliantly arrive to protest in combine harvesters

The Met Police are trying to ban farmers from protesting using their farm machinery such as tractors but have been met will a line of enormous combine harvesters as sign of sticking two fingers up to the old bill.

On Sunday the Met came out with some looney Public Order Act which is in place not allowing farmers to use their own mode of transport to enter central London as they have previously done, and have always respected emergency vehicles.

The Met Police claim in a statement that due to “disruption to the life of the community” anyone who brings a tractor will face arrest and criminal record, once again the farmers are being unfairly targeted by “two tier” Britain.

Lovely walking in London on a warm spring day supporting our British farmers. Blue sky, sunshine & a carnival atmosphere for the #PancakeDay farmers protest starting in Whitehall. The Met police did a good making sure the Convoi Exceptional & march could transit the route safely pic.twitter.com/OflTJ0ceCd

— Kathy Anderson (@Kathy__Anderson) March 4, 2025

Tory farming spokeswoman Victoria Atkins said ahead of the protest, “Once again, rural communities will gather in Westminster to show their united opposition to Labour’s vindictive family farms tax.

“Our rural communities have warned repeatedly that Labour’s tax hike is stopping investment, inflicting an enormous emotional toll on farming families and will break family farms.

The Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has called for the reversal of Labour’s cruel inheritance tax and warned our food security is at risk.

She said, “Food security is national security. As our world gets more uncertain and more hostile, we need to grow and eat more food here at home. For the sake of our national resilience, Keir Starmer needs to reverse the Family Farms Tax.”

Organiser and fourth generation farmer Olly Harrison, 43, said farmers will march through London with combine harvesters, sprayers and tractors.

This is to demonstrate quite clearly the amount of investment farmers need to make “just to produce something simple like a pancake,” the Express reported.

He said, “We’re going to explain, as it’s never been more important, especially with what’s been going on in the world now with the threat of war, how important food is and the risk that we’re taking with the amount of money invested, and why this inheritance tax is not sustainable to keep people farming.

“We need an exemption for more people that are not going to live seven years; that is what the day is all about. We still need to remind the government that food has to be grown in the UK to the highest level possible to give us some sort of security.”

The National Farmers Union, who support the protests, said, “The Pancake Day Rally aims to be bigger and better and show MPs and the public farming’s determination not to accept the cruel family farm tax.”