The double standards of reporting protest were laid bare with the ‘tractor tax’ demo, as Byline Times demonstrated in a recent article.

It states:

“Farmers descended on Westminster in a convoy of tractors to protest the tax changes”, Politico reported on Wednesday afternoon, after owners of multi-million pound land and property-holdings blocked the roads around Parliament.

The protest, over moves to introduce inheritance tax for the largest estates, saw dozens – perhaps hundreds – of tractors effectively blockading swathes of central London.

By Thursday, the protest had fallen off the agenda, with only the Financial Times featuring the demonstration against inheritance tax on their front page.

All of which is odd, because when reports emerged in 2021 of Insulate Britain climate protesters apparently blocking ambulances in central London, it received furious, wall-to-wall coverage and condemnation in the press and on television and radio discussion shows. The same goes for nearly every other climate protest that has slowed traffic in London over the past five years.

You can watch the videos and decide for yourself what you think: whether the British press treats wealthy farmers – who are attacking a Labour Government removing a loophole affecting a progressive tax – with the same standards it treats those opposing catastrophic man-made climate change that is already affecting billions worldwide.

Everyone in positions of influence should ask themselves the question: are you treating those fighting to save the planet more harshly than those fighting for inherited wealth? If so, why?

In the meantime, Just Stop Oil activists would do well to turn up in tractors and Barbour jackets at their next outing.

I couldn’t have put it better myself.

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