For Londoners whose only contact with the countryside is the Diddlysquat range of Jeremy Clarkson products in the Amazon grocery store the arrival of lots of tractors in Whitehall today driven by actual farmers must be alarming. I say to them: do not worry — they come in peace; they mean no harm.
They wear wellingtons and weatherproofed jackets habitually; the photogenic girl farmers with lambs (well, teenage sheep) are lovely. And to single young women in the protest area, may I point out that some of these farmers are bachelors from places where the male to female ratio is the opposite of London’s and they’ll probably be hanging around in bars following the demonstration. Just saying.
