Enda Brady: UK correspondent on US Vice President JD Vance visiting the Cotswolds

US Vice President JD Vance and his family have taken a trip to the Cotswolds - and his extensive security detail have raised some eyebrows among the locals.

The 20-vehicle convoy has prompted some backlash from the residents.

UK correspondent Enda Brady explains further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the Brady UK correspondence with that Hello.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Inda, Hey Heather, how are you.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
I'm very well, thank you. How you enjoying having JD Vansentown.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Well, that's very interesting the security detailed this man brings
with him. So he's in one of the most rural
parts of England, the Cotswolds. He's staying at Dean Manor,
which is basically a golf ball's drive away from David
Cameron's house. You could hit Dean Manor from Cameron's backyard.
I reckon with a wedge, that's how close he is

(00:30):
to the Camerons. It's so quiet over there, there's nothing
to do. It's farmland that I don't think you'd even
find a pub open most days. It is really really
remote and rural. And yet he's gone for lunch and
his security detail took twenty vehicles. That was the size
of the convoy. I've seen the pictures I've heard from locals.

(00:53):
Twenty vehicle convoy for one man, one woman and three
children to go for lunch. Now, clearly he's Vice resident
of the United States, but I don't think that would
be going down well with the local population. It's mostly
farmland and tractors and small lanes, and we're seeing American
Secret Service agents pop up in the middle of nowhere,

(01:13):
and people are spotting them a mile away because we're
in the middle of a heat wave here and these
guys are wearing suits.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
You're really blending. And now what do you make of
this chep who wanted to call the shoplift of scumbags
and got told off by the coppers.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
I one hundred percent applaud this man, and I would
not be removing my signs from my shop. We're in
the middle of never mind a heat wave. We've had
a shoplifting epidemic here for years. And if you go
on social media you are type in London or any
town in the UK and shoplifting. You will see people
walking into business premises with huge rucksacks, wearing ballet lavas

(01:49):
and clearing the shelves and they go for the good stuff,
the expensive stuff, everything that can be sold on quickly.
I just find it reprehensible that these people are getting
away with this. One man has fought back in a
tiny little way, a shopkeeper in Wrexham, and what he's
done is he's put a sign up. He sells vintage
clothing and a lot of the good stuff he's put

(02:09):
behind cabinets, and he's put a little sign up saying
owing to scumbags shoplifting, please ask for the key if
you want to inspect these items. I'm paraphrasing, but that's
what he put on his sign. He got a visit
from the police saying that his sign may cause offense.
It gets even worse. There was a lady in Kent
who had a visit from the police this week. She
decided to go to her CCTV capture some images of

(02:34):
the shoplifters and plaster them around her shop, and she
had a visit from the police saying that she was
breaching their privacy. Can you believe?

Speaker 1 (02:43):
So what is going on with your police? That they
are doing all these weird things?

Speaker 2 (02:48):
You never see them. First of all, I can tell
you now, if I rang instead I've just been burgled,
you might get a cop round here in a week. However,
if I rang and reported a certain type of crime,
or indeed, if I say, yeah, I've been burgled, but
you know what, I've got him and I'm sitting on
him right now and I'll deal with this, you'd have
a cop round in five minutes.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah, Okay, Now this pilot who was found drunk in
the hotel and naked, was he in his own room
or was he outside?

Speaker 2 (03:16):
He was everywhere, roaming the hotel as if he owned us,
The problem being that he was completely naked and very
very drunk. And this was spotted by passengers who had
flown with his airline a few days previously, and he
was due to fly a group basically a plane full
of people back from the Cape Verde Islands off West Africa.

(03:39):
He was due to fly them four thousand, three hundred
kilometers back to London Gatwick thirty six hours later. So
he was quite rightly apprehended, he was reported and now
easy Jet have suspended him pending an investigation. But one
would imagine that is the end of his career as
a pilot. Apparently he just started drinking from the minute

(03:59):
they got to the hotel.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Okay, as you do, hey, Enda, thanks very much, appreciate it.
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Speaker 2 (04:04):
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