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Daily Mail
a day ago
- Politics
- Daily Mail
Protestors vow to ruin JD Vance's Cotswolds family holiday as they warn the US Vice-President to expect a 'resistance in waiting'
Activists have threatened to wreck US Vice-President JD Vance 's mooted UK family holiday in the Cotswolds - telling him to expect a 'resistance in waiting'. Donald Trump 's deputy is reportedly planning to arrive next month for his summer vacation in the popular tourist spot dubbed 'the English Hamptons'. The US VP appears to be joining celebrity compatriots such as Ellen DeGeneres, Beyonce and Jay-Z and Taylor Swift as an admirer of the area. President Trump's number two is expected alongside his wife Usha, 39, and the couple's three young children, Ewan Blaine, Vivek and Mirabel. But there is now a backlash among opponents of the latest high-profile visitor - with campaigners promising to hold protests during his stay. A group calling itself the Stop Trump Coalition has declared it will emulate recent protests against Mr Vance on a family trip to Disneyland in California. Last week, Disneyland visitors were left outraged after Mr Vance shut down rides so he could enjoy them with his children - and he previously faced protest placards during a skiiing holiday in the US state of Vermont in March this year. The Stop Trump Coalition alliance is said to include pro-Palestinian activists, climate campaigners and trade unions. The pledges come as President Trump prepares to visit his two golf courses in Scotland from Friday, with Sir Keir Starmer lined up to meet him for talks in Aberdeen. Mr Vance and his family are expected to arrive in Britain shortly after the US President's five-day stay in Scotland. The Stop Trump Coalition have told of plans to greet Mr Trump with banners and flags along roads and a beachside message visible from the sky. Further action is intended for his proposed state visit expected to take place in September. And they have now signalled similar opposition to Mr Vance's British sojourn, with a spokesman saying: 'We are meeting Trump with protests in Aberdeen and Edinburgh this month, and then in London and Windsor in September. 'JD Vance is every bit as unwelcome in the UK as Donald Trump. 'We remember how Vance cut short his ski trip in Vermont because he was so enraged by the sight of a few protesters. 'We are sure that, even in the Cotswolds, he will find the resistance waiting.' The Vice President strolled through Disneyland in Los Angeles, California, hand-in-hand with two of his children, Vivek and Mirabel, last Saturday - with a vast Secret Service security detail alongside them. Barricades went up outside popular rides including Pirates of the Caribbean as K9 units stood guard. An entourage of 50 bodyguards and Disney personnel was said to be involved. The prospect of such a heavy security presence in the winding rural roads of The Cotswolds is likely to spark logjams in an already overly-congested area of the UK. Locals in quiet Cotswolds villages have raged in recent months over their narrow roads becoming rat runs for traffic between TV star Jeremy Clarkson's farm shop and his pub - after four series of his Clarkson's Farm TV show has triggered an influx of tourists. The route between his Diddly Squat Farm Shop in Chadlington and his Farmer's Dog pub which is 12 miles away near Burford in Oxfordshire have been particularly clogged. In the spring, local residents led by parish council leaders in villages nearest the pub urged internet bosses to redirect drivers using their Google Maps app, towards main roads rather than narrow village alternatives. Clarkson himself has also made a plea to motorists on the pub's website to use only main roads and not the smaller single-track lanes through quaint quiet villages which can appear on Google Maps as most direct routes between his farm shop and pub. The Farmer's Dog has attracted many fans of Clarkson, known as previous host of The Grand Tour and Top Gear. A message on the pub's website now reads: 'If you're travelling to The Farmer's Dog, especially from Diddly Squat Farm Shop, please use the main roads. Elsewhere, social media and particularly TikTok has paid a part in overtourism in the area - with one tiny village feeling the brunt more than others. Parking restrictions are being introduced on tourist coaches entering what has been dubbed England's 'most beautiful village' which is invaded by a huge number of visitors every weekend. The picturesque Cotswold village of Bibury can sometimes see as many as 20,000 visitors in a weekend, and up to 50 coaches parking there in a day. Gloucestershire County Council has now announced a temporary traffic management trial. Existing coach bays in the village centre temporarily closed and instead bus stops will be installed for safer passenger drop-off and pick-up. The county council said it had worked with local coach operators, businesses, and the community to introduce the trial in the popular village. Elsewhere, the hashtags #CastleCombe and #CastleCombeEngland are among the most searched for when it comes to English tourist spots. Thanks to its starring role in films such as Steven Spielberg's War Horse, Dr Doolittle and The Wolfman, the small Wiltshire village of Castle Combe has become a tourism honeypot year-round. Yet the influx of crowds has prompted criticism among residents. In 2023, furious locals claimed their privacy was being 'invaded by drones' as TikTokers tried to capture the perfect view of the village, They also complained the community was being ruined by the rise of Airbnbs. One resident said: 'In the hotter months people pitch up like it is the beach which can be a bit annoying. 'There are coaches that come and do guided tours of the Cotswolds so we will have those pitch up a few times a day.' Then there is Bourton-on-the-Water, aka the 'Venice of the Cotswolds' with its ornate stone bridges, where a number of residents are trying to convince the parish council to explore the radical solution of banning vehicles and introducing a drop off-point for tourists a 30-minute walk outside the village. TikToker @jedi_explores showed the reality for those descending on 'Britain's prettiest village' - Castle Combe in The Cotswolds, saying it was almost impossible to get a photo of the village's picturesque bridge because there's always people on it The village, 15 miles east of Cheltenham and with a population of 3,000, was given the 'Venice' label due to the number ornate stone bridges over the River Windrush. Tens of thousands of tourists flock to the village every year - which is great for traders - but residents were growing increasingly frustrated with the congestion. Parish and district councillor Jon Wareing last year said Bourton was buckling under the weight of an ever increasing number of daytrippers. 'People can spend an hour in their car, driving around. Some of the 'difficult' behaviour that follows is because they get frustrated. 'One of my neighbours asked this person not to park on his property and got threatened with violence. He said he knew where they lived if they did anything to his car and threatened to throw a brick through their window.'
South China Morning Post
2 days ago
- Politics
- South China Morning Post
‘For a better Germany': leaders mark failed Hitler assassination plot 81 years ago
Top politicians and civil society representatives on Sunday commemorated those behind a failed attempt to assassinate Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler 81 years ago, and warned against historical amnesia amid a rise of the far-right. Advertisement 'July 20 became a symbol of resistance against injustice, for justice and conscience, for a better Germany,' said Defence Minister Boris Pistorius in front of around 250 recruits in the Bendlerblock, the headquarters of the Defence Ministry in Berlin. Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and three other Wehrmacht officers were shot dead in the courtyard just hours after their failed attempt to kill Hitler with a bomb planted in his military headquarters on the eastern front on July 20, 1944. Marking the events that unfolded about a year before the end of World War II, Pistorius stressed the day did not stand for failure, but for a new beginning. Speaking at a commemoration ceremony at the Plötzensee memorial in Berlin, where Germany's wartime Nazi dictatorship carried out many executions, the son of former chancellor Willy Brandt warned Germans against forgetting the atrocities committed by the regime. Advertisement 'We are seeing it again today, including in election results, how the poison of hatred, racism and exclusion is penetrating and shows itself in social coarsening,' Matthias Brandt said. He cited a number of racist terms used by the Nazis, noting they were increasingly being used again. Doing nothing to counter this was a decision to let things run their course, he warned.
Telegraph
2 days ago
- Politics
- Telegraph
Protesters vow to disrupt Vance's Cotswolds family holiday
JD Vance has been warned by protesters that he will 'find the resistance waiting' when he visits the Cotswolds this summer. The US vice-president is expected to travel to the UK with his family for a holiday among the picturesque villages and rolling hills of South West England in August. Ahead of his visit, however, an anti-Donald Trump coalition of pro-Palestinian demonstrators, climate protesters and trade unions has told Mr Vance to expect protests against his trip. Mr Vance and his family are expected to visit the UK shortly after the US president completes a five-day stay in Scotland. The US president is due to fly to Scotland on Friday, where he will check up on his business interests and meet the Prime Minister in Aberdeen. He will visit his Trump Turnberry golf club in Ayrshire on the west coast before opening a new course on his Menie Estate in Aberdeenshire, on the north-east coast. The Stop Trump Coalition have said previously they will protest against Mr Trump's visit by hanging banners and flags along the roads and inscribing a huge message on a nearby beach that will be visible from the air. Now, the coalition has issued a warning to Mr Vance that they expect further demonstrations to take place when he visits. A Stop Trump Coalition spokesman said: 'We are meeting Trump with protests in Aberdeen and Edinburgh this month, and then in London and Windsor in September. 'JD Vance is every bit as unwelcome in the UK as Donald Trump. 'We remember how Vance cut short his ski trip in Vermont because he was so enraged by the sight of a few protesters. 'We are sure that, even in the Cotswolds, he will find the resistance waiting.' In March, hundreds of protesters holding pro-Ukraine signs confronted Mr Vance in Waitsfield, Vermont, where he and his family were visiting for a ski holiday. Protesters branded Mr Vance a 'national disgrace' with some telling him and his family to 'go ski in Russia'. It was later reported that the family were forced to move to an undisclosed location from their planned ski resort because of the demonstrations. Earlier this month, Mr Vance was met with hecklers and widespread demonstrations after he visited Disneyland in California. Protesters gathered outside the nearby Grand Californian Hotel, where the vice-president and his family were staying, waving flags and chanting. Other Disneyland visitors later complained that regular guests were experiencing delays and long lines because of the additional security in place and rides being shut down for the Vance family. The vice-president, his wife Usha and their three young children are expected to join millions of American tourists in crossing the Atlantic to see the sights of London in mid-August. They are then expected to rent a cottage in the Cotswolds before leaving to spend time in Scotland. Mrs Vance has taken the lead in finding a cottage in the Cotswolds where they can unwind with Ewan, eight, five-year-old Vivek, and Mirabel, three. Trump has previously been highly critical of protests targeting his properties in the UK and reacted angrily when vandals daubed pro-Palestinian graffiti on his Turnberry golf course He raised the incident with Starmer and described the protesters as 'terrorists'. Following Trump's election victory in November last year, a number of celebrities 'fled' the US and relocated to the Cotswolds. Among them was US TV host Ellen DeGeneres, who moved to the UK from Montecito, California, with her wife, actress Portia de Rossi, following Trump's win. Recently, Ms DeGeneres and her wife were pictured enjoying a drink in one of the Cotswolds' most famous pubs. The couple were seen spending an evening at The Farmer's Dog in Burford, Oxfordshire, which is run and owned by Jeremy Clarkson. Mr Clarkson bought the Oxfordshire pub for £1million this summer, and customers queued for four hours to get in when he opened its doors in August.
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Hezbollah says it will not give up weapons despite US proposal
Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem appeared to dismiss a proposal that his group disarm, as presented by the United States to Lebanon's leadership last month. Qassem argued on Friday that the Israeli army would expand in Lebanon if there was no 'resistance' in the country. 'We will not surrender or give up to Israel; Israel will not take our weapons away from us,' he said in a video message. Qassem's comments dealt a potential blow to US diplomat Thomas Barrack's efforts last month to secure a deal between Lebanon and Israel that would involve disarmament of the Lebanese armed group. Barrack, Washington's ambassador to Turkiye and special envoy to Syria, had declared he was 'unbelievably satisfied' earlier this month after receiving a response to his proposals from the Lebanese authorities, adding that a 'go-forward plan' was in the leaders who took office after more than a year of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah have promised a state monopoly on bearing arms, while demanding Israel adhere to a ceasefire with the group reached last November. Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said in an interview with Al Jadeed TV on Friday that fear of Israeli escalation was warranted, but that the US proposal was an 'opportunity' that could lead to Israel's withdrawal. Salam acknowledged Hezbollah's weapons played a leading role in liberating South Lebanon from Israel in 2000, but insisted that they must now be under the command of the Lebanese state. Qassem, however, said Lebanon is facing an existential danger that should be prioritised over the issue of giving the state monopoly over using weapons. 'After we address that danger, we are ready to discuss a defence strategy or a national security strategy,' he said. Hezbollah claims the Lebanese armed forces have failed to confront Israeli abuses since Israel's inception in 1948. 'Ready for a defensive confrontation' Under the ceasefire, Hezbollah was to pull its fighters back north of the Litani River, some 30km (18 miles) from the Israeli frontier. Israel was to withdraw its troops from Lebanon, but has kept them deployed in five areas that it deemed strategic and has breached the ceasefire on a near-daily basis with deadly dealt Hezbollah significant blows in last year's war, assassinating its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, along with other commanders and destroying much of its arsenal. Qassem appeared to acknowledge that Hezbollah was not in a position to hit back or attack Israeli troops occupying parts of South Lebanon. But he said the group would not disarm under the threat of a renewed all-out war. 'We are proceeding, prepared and ready for a defensive confrontation,' the Hezbollah chief said. Solve the daily Crossword
Al Jazeera
4 days ago
- Politics
- Al Jazeera
Hezbollah says it will not give up weapons despite US proposal
Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem appeared to dismiss a proposal that his group disarm, as presented by the United States to Lebanon's leadership last month. Qassem argued on Friday that the Israeli army would expand in Lebanon if there was no 'resistance' in the country. 'We will not surrender or give up to Israel; Israel will not take our weapons away from us,' he said in a video message. Qassem's comments dealt a potential blow to US diplomat Thomas Barrack's efforts last month to secure a deal between Lebanon and Israel that would involve disarmament of the Lebanese armed group. Barrack, Washington's ambassador to Turkiye and special envoy to Syria, had declared he was 'unbelievably satisfied' earlier this month after receiving a response to his proposals from the Lebanese authorities, adding that a 'go-forward plan' was in the works. Lebanese leaders who took office after more than a year of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah have promised a state monopoly on bearing arms, while demanding Israel adhere to a ceasefire with the group reached last November. Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said in an interview with Al Jadeed TV on Friday that fear of Israeli escalation was warranted, but that the US proposal was an 'opportunity' that could lead to Israel's withdrawal. Salam acknowledged Hezbollah's weapons played a leading role in liberating South Lebanon from Israel in 2000, but insisted that they must now be under the command of the Lebanese state. Qassem, however, said Lebanon is facing an existential danger that should be prioritised over the issue of giving the state monopoly over using weapons. 'After we address that danger, we are ready to discuss a defence strategy or a national security strategy,' he said. Hezbollah claims the Lebanese armed forces have failed to confront Israeli abuses since Israel's inception in 1948. 'Ready for a defensive confrontation' Under the ceasefire, Hezbollah was to pull its fighters back north of the Litani River, some 30km (18 miles) from the Israeli frontier. Israel was to withdraw its troops from Lebanon, but has kept them deployed in five areas that it deemed strategic and has breached the ceasefire on a near-daily basis with deadly strikes. Israel dealt Hezbollah significant blows in last year's war, assassinating its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, along with other commanders and destroying much of its arsenal. Qassem appeared to acknowledge that Hezbollah was not in a position to hit back or attack Israeli troops occupying parts of South Lebanon. But he said the group would not disarm under the threat of a renewed all-out war. 'We are proceeding, prepared and ready for a defensive confrontation,' the Hezbollah chief said.
