27/11/2025
What we saw yesterday was clear as day.
From Government to the Met Police to the tow truck companies the message to farmers was simple. Sit down be quiet and be punished if you dare speak up.
But outside the M25 away from the cameras farmers quietly hold half of this country together.
Not just with food production but with the jobs nobody ever talks about.
Here is what farmers do for the public every winter every flood every storm and every blocked road.
Flood rescues
Farmers are the first ones out with tractors and loaders pulling stranded cars clearing debris and opening access for emergency services.
Snow clearing
When roads are impassable it is farmers not the council who fit snowploughs to tractors and clear entire villages.
Recovering vehicles for emergency services
Every winter farmers pull police cars ambulances and 4x4s out of snow mud and floods because their machinery can reach places other vehicles cannot.
Delivering food and medicine to isolated residents
Farmers check on the elderly deliver supplies up rural lanes and make sure vulnerable people are not left cut off in bad weather.
Clearing fallen trees after storms
Before the council arrives farmers have usually already used chainsaws tractors and loaders to reopen rural lanes and keep villages moving.
Assisting fire crews
During wildfires farmers support fire services with water bowsers cutting firebreaks and moving burning materials with machinery.
Rescuing people and pets during bad weather
If a lane is blocked flooded or snowed it is the local farmer who is called first because they are often the only ones who can reach them.
London never sees any of this.
But the countryside sees it every single year.
So when the Government tries to crush farming when the Met Police arrest farmers and when tow trucks line up for a payday it is worth remembering one thing.
Farmers were always there when the country needed them.
But after watching their fellow farmers being arrested their tools loaded onto tow trucks and a Government that refuses to listen or even let them be seen or heard how many farmers do you think are now asking themselves why they keep helping anyone.