The Metropolitan Police has been branded "two-tier" by British farmer Douglas Turner after their attempt to block demonstrators from bringing their tractors to their next protest against Labour's inheritance tax raid.
However, farmers have been told not to bring tractors with them to their next demonstration on Tuesday or "face arrest".
Hitting out at the block, Turner told GB News that the farmers "will not keep the tractors at home" and fully intend to defy the police's warning.
Douglas Turner has hit out at 'two-tier policing' after farmers were threatened with arrest over their tractor demonstrations
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Turner told host Ben Leo: "We're not going to keep them at home. Last time round, we had over 1,400 tractors, and we didn't block emergency services whatsoever.
"We were only in Whitehall. Anybody that wanted to get through would get through."
Suggesting the move is "two-tier", Turner highlighted how the police appear to be more lenient with the demonstrations carried out by activist group Just Stop Oil.
Turner explained: "We do work with the Met, but I feel that on occasion, Just Stop Oil, they were on the motorway, they're on the roads - what did the police do for them? Do you need a cup of tea, do you need a cup of coffee? Are you okay? We never had that offer to us.
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Farmers have been blocked by the Met Police from bringing tractors to Tuesday's protest
GB News"However, we offer the police a cup of tea or a sandwich that are there with us, but it is two tier policing. It's one rule for them, one rule for us."
Noting the ever-growing public support, Turner stated that people "love to see the tractors" and they make clear that it is a farmers' protest rather than looking "the same as any other protest".
Turner said: "People love to see the tractors, what they want to see more than anything else is a tractor. And the reason we have tractors up there is because any other rally that's up there - protest, whatever you want to call it, it looks the same, same and same. If you've got tractors up there, they know it's the farmers.
"The police say to us that we do not cause big disturbances. We do not fight them, we do not throw paint over everything, we are there because this is the final straw."
Turner told GB News the the inheritance tax raid is 'not fair' on farmers
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Expressing the frustration of the farmers, Turner concluded by making clear that the inheritance tax raid is "not fair" and the farmers have been "left in the lurch" by the Government.
Turner stated: "We're making a rally into London so people know that we're about. Unfortunately, for many many years, we've been let go, we've been left out there in the lurch all the time.
"We're making food for the people, we don't hold people to hostage like the train drivers, we want it to be fair. Unfortunately, this tax is not fair. And it's not just that tax, it's other things that the Government had taken away from us. But we know at the end of the day, it's a land grab."
Police have imposed conditions under the Public Order Act ahead of the demonstration on Tuesday, with a limited number of tractors arranged by organisers with prior police permission allowed at the event.
Anyone breaching these conditions has been told they may face arrest.
