Campaigners raise £4,500 from Brits who want to ruin JD Vance's holiday

A campaign group has raised almost £4,500 from Brits who want to "ruin" JD Vance's holiday.

The group 'Everyone Hates Elon' were behind huge posters of Donald Trump with dead paedophile Jeffrey Epstein that appeared around the UK to mark the US President's golf holiday in Scotland.

They also added a plaque to the sign outside his Turnberry golf course saying it was "Twinned with Epstein Island".

Now they're planning to welcome the US Vice President with billboards and flags of a meme of Mr Vance with a ruddy face, a beard and a bald head - which it's claimed he hates.

A Norwegian tourist who was refused entry to the US earlier this year claimed he was told it was because he had a copy of the meme on his phone.

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A spokesperson for the group said: "JD Vance says the UK has a free speech problem - but a tourist was banned from entering the USA simply for having this image on his phone.

"So we thought we'd show him what free speech looks like here by welcoming him with the image he apparently hates so much."

Appearing on TV alongside David Lammy yesterday ahead of a day of talks at the Foreign Secretary's country residence, Chevening, Vance said he had "raised concerns" about free speech in the US, and had accused the west of "censoring rather than engaging" with different opinions."

He said: "I think the entire collective West, the transatlantic relationship, our NATO allies, certainly the United States under the Biden administration, got a little too comfortable with censoring rather than engaging with a diverse array of opinions. So that's been my view.

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"Obviously, I've raised some criticism, concerns about our friends on this side of the Atlantic.

"But the thing that I'd say to the people of England or anybody else, to David, is many of the things that I worry most about were happening in the United States from 2020 to 2024.

"I just don't want other countries to follow us down what I think was a very dark path under the Biden administration."