Locals in the sleepy hamlet overtaken by the “circus” around JD Vance’s vacation are growing increasingly irate with the vice president already.
Vance and a 20-strong motorcade thundered into Dean in Oxfordshire on Sunday, transforming the usually bucolic bolthole into a fortress swarming with sniffer dogs, armed British police and plainclothes U.S. Secret Service officials.
The vice president, his wife Usha, and their three children are in the area for a not-so-quiet getaway. Dean, near the market town of Chipping Norton, is in the Cotswolds, a sprawling area of countryside nicknamed the ‘Hamptons of England.’
The Cotswolds is frequented by the wealthy elite, including Hugh Grant, David Beckham, and King Charles. And, generally, “everybody is welcome,” according to one local who spoke