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Why the Cotswolds are perfect for JD Vance

You can see why JD Vance is staying in the Cotswolds for his summer holiday, says Marina Hyde in The Guardian. The three other family trips the US vice-president has managed in recent months – in Britain he’d be dubbed “the right honourable member for the Sun Lounger” – haven’t ended well. On a skiing weekend to Vermont, the Vances reportedly had to move locations because of placard-wielding protesters. Then there was Disneyland, where the boos followed him as he trotted to the Autopia ride and “lunched furtively” in a Pirates of the Caribbean restaurant. And he came under fire last weekend after his Secret Service team arranged for the outflow of the Caesar Creek Lake in Ohio to be changed, seemingly to provide “Vacay Vance” with “ideal kayaking conditions”.

In the Cotswolds, a place stuffed with “the absolute worst people in the country”, JD probably won’t even be “the ghastliest person in the village”. He’s staying in a lovely 18th-century manor house with six acres of grounds and a tennis court. (Whether there’s a swimming pool remains unclear – as does whether he swims in a T-shirt on family trips, “like he famously does at hotels”.) Jeremy Clarkson’s Diddly Squat empire is apparently nearby, though Vance may want to avoid an encounter with Clarkson himself, who has described the vice-president as a “bearded God-botherer” and a “twat”. As for kayaking, we Brits wouldn’t dream of allowing a politician to reroute one of our rivers. “Instead, we allow the water companies to reroute sewage into them.” So please, JD, feel free to take the kayak out as often as you want during your stay. “In fact, we insist on it.”