Or the Ruth Davidson rent-a-tank: https://news.channel4.com/election2015/04/29/update-4401/

(more seriously, let's not forget the deployment of the Parachute Regiment to Northern Ireland, although that was a while ago)

I think last time we had a tank at a protest the protestors had rented it! https://www.vice.com/en/article/yer-das-gone-rogue-guido-faw...

Northern Ireland is a big part of why the UK doesn't think the optics of deploying tanks are a show of strength and doesn't think it comes without a cost...

That's not a tank - looks like an Abbot SPG? ;-)

Interesting! There's also a Wiki article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_George_Square

They cut the tanks up to make Irn-Bru!