I fear, however, that sinister forces and the dark arts are being mustered to make sure [the farmers’ protests] lose. Which is why, if you can actually find a report about the dispute, there’s no sympathy for poor old Farmer Giles. Because he’s being labelled as Hitler in a tractor veryone from the BBC to The Guardian is saying that the farmer protests in Germany have nothing to do with fuel prices and are, in fact, a smokescreen for a resurgence of the far right. They imply that if you peer over the steaming piles of manure being left at the Brandenburg Gate, you can see lots of weird rural boys in brown shirts with daggers and suspiciously neat hair.