Tea, cakes and funny signs greet Vance in quintessentially British countryside

Vice President JD Vance was greeted with protesters holding funny signs as he vacationed in the Cotswolds in England's countryside.

LONDON — JD Vance got a very English welcome after he, his family and their large security detail rolled through the village of Charlbury this week, just not the kind the vice president would have hoped for.

Bathed in sunshine, dozens of demonstrators drank tea, ate cake featuring a meme of the vice president’s face and held up humorous placards Tuesday in the small community in the Cotswolds, as this part of the countryside is known.

A satirical image of Vice President JD Vance on the front of a cake.Leon Neal / Getty Images“JD Vance Netflix password is ‘password,’” said one handmade sign at a protest near where the Vances are vacationing some 100 miles west of the capital, London.

A second sign declared that Vance “claps when the plane lands,” referring to a practice mocked by some Britons who see it as very un-British overenthusiasm. Others held placards quoting Vance when he said he “never liked” President Donald Trump.

“Cotswolds childless cat ladies say go home,” another read, referring to comments Vance made to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in 2021 about senior Democrats in Congress that resurfaced during last year’s presidential race.