Scottish farmers’ protest: “Farmers are getting pushed to the limit – We’ve had enough”

Scottish farmers’ protest: “Farmers are getting pushed to the limit – We’ve had enough”

Rhoda Wilson

In the Scottish countryside, the rallying cry “It’s happening” echoes as farmers join the wave of protests happening across Europe. Their grievances are diverse, but the common thread is dissatisfaction with the status quo.

For the Scottish farmers, the protest was about restrictions being placed on farmers relating to Cairngorms National Park.  What sparked the protest was a scheme to re-introduce beavers in the area which was done without consultation. “The park provides control more than aid to those living and working in the area,” a farmers’ representative said.

Joseph Stalin called the Ukrainian farmers “enemies of the state.”  As History noted in a 2019 article, the Soviet Union dictator wanted both to replace Ukraine’s small farms with state-run collectives and punish independence-minded Ukrainians who posed a threat to his totalitarian authority.  By expropriating the farms, the state took control of food production. As a result, an estimated 3.9 – 7 million starved to death.

History quoted Alex de Waal who said: “The Ukrainian famine was a clear case of a man-made famine.”  He described it as “a hybrid…of a famine caused by calamitous social-economic policies and one aimed at a particular population for repression or punishment.”

Now, 100 years later, governments across Europe are targeting farmers primarily in the name of “climate change” and “green” policies.  The result? As history has proved, a man-made famine.

It’s not clear when the Scottish protest shown in the videos below took place, the location or the reasons the farmers and their supporters decided to take action.   Those who have been sharing the videos on social media have not provided these details.  However, The Scottish Farmer reported a protest held in Grantown-on-Spey on Monday 15 January at the headquarters of Cairngorms National Park Authority (“CNPA”).

“They rallied 21 tractors, a Unimog truck, and Land Rovers through Grantown before a meeting took place with CNPA board members,”  The Scottish Farmer wrote.

This description appears to fit the vehicles that can be seen driving through a Scottish town in the first of the videos below, which may indicate this is the same protest.  In the third video, the farmer can be heard discussing rules being imposed on farmers for the sake of the national park, which would also seem to indicate it is the protest described by The Scottish Farmers’ article.

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