Farmers reached Britain’s Parliament with rumbling tractors, know what is their demand?

In the British capital London, farmers have registered their protest by taking out tractors near the Parliament. Farmers drove dozens of tractors in a slow convoy towards the UK Parliament to protest against post-Brexit rules and trade deals. Regarding trade agreements, they say that they are endangering livelihoods and food security. Supporters of the Save British Farming and Fairness for Farmers of Kent campaign group marched from south-east England and through the southern districts of the capital to Parliament Square, where dozens of supporters were waiting to welcome them.

A line of tractors waving Union Jack flags or signs reading “Stop shoddy imports” moved along the River Thames and towards the Houses of Parliament and circled Parliament Square, cheering and honking horns. Britain has not yet seen the kind of large-scale farmers’ protests that have jammed cities in France and other European countries. Farmers from the 27-nation EU have protested against unnecessary bureaucratic rules, clean air and soil targets and unfair competition from abroad that is driving them towards bankruptcy. Britain’s exit from the European Union has had a huge impact on British agriculture, leaving Britain out of the bloc’s free trade zone and a complex web of agricultural regulations.

Many British farmers supported Brexit in protest against the EU’s much-criticized Common Agricultural Policy. But many now say that post-Brexit trade deals between Britain and countries including Australia and New Zealand have opened the door to cheap imports that are hurting British producers. Organizers also criticize labeling that allows products to bear the Union flag when they have not been grown or reared in Britain. The UK has also delayed checks on imports that were due to begin after the country’s final break with the EU in late 2020, a move farmers say threatens biosecurity