These images of JD Vance and David Lammy fishing will make you cringe
The VP is visiting Chevening House in Kent, the Foreign Secretary's grace and favour home, as part of his 'holiday' to the UK.
(Image: Suzanne Plunkett/PA Wire) Lammy and Vance have reportedly struck up a friendship since Labour came to power, with Lammy on a charm offensive – probably because he called Vance's boss Donald Trump a 'tyrant' and 'woman-hating neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath' in 2018.
Vance probably has bigger fish to fry nowadays, such as criticising buffer zones around abortion clinics in Scotland.
(Image: Suzanne Plunkett/PA Wire)In the grand scheme of US-UK photo ops, it is not the worst we've seen, after Trump was pictured looming over Keir Starmer while he picked up paper dropped by the US President.
Nonetheless, the 11 pictures that appeared on the PA news wire is an undoubtedly cringey attempt to make the pair appear great pals.
(Image: Suzanne Plunkett/PA Wire) It does somewhat look like a bad attempt at a rom-com, a Brokeback Mountain without the cowboy hats.
In one image, Lammy looks as if he is holding Vance from behind. Surely the right-wing family man Vance did not want to give that sort of impression.
In another, Vance appears to be screaming at the fish. Does he think they are immigrants?
(Image: Suzanne Plunkett/PA Wire) But what is most hilarious about this completely natural set of photos – definitely not taken for PR purposes or intended for the Saturday papers – is the shoes the pair are wearing.
Vance at least has thrown on a pair of trainers, while Lammy is in dress shoes.
Smells a bit fishy to me.
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