Huge Police Escort - m40 today

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Did anyone see it? Northbound between Oxford and Cherwell Valley at around 1330?

traffic stopped, entrance blocked, loads of motorbikes, black SUV’s, Black range rovers all with blacked out windows, about 30 vehicles, plus a helicopter.

Wonder who it was for? I assumed Royalty but I’ve seen them before in London and on motorways and the entourage was nothing like this, no helicopter either.

🙄

Clearly the size of the motorcade is in inverse proportion to the size of the brain of the person being escorted…

I heard it was just security for his collection of eyeliners.

Dunkin Donuts had a sale on 🍩

Being very visible as secret service is part of the point. It puts off people who might be tempted to have a go.

There will be others around that you won't have noticed. In the crowd. Possibly on rooftops.

Hopefully they have smartened up their act a bit as they have been a bit useless over the past few years. The guy that nearly shot Trump on the golf course shouldn't have got anywhere near as close as he did if they were doing their jobs properly and I think a few heads rolled over that one.

You’ve confused JD Vance with Andy Burnham.

Are we sure it wasn’t Harry and Meg’s 😂? (In her dreams).

He’d have been safer in a Skoda . No one cares or knows him. Americans are ridiculous. How much did all that cost? Who paid? 🙈🙈

I read that the secret service people were going to local's houses asking for details of everyone who lived in the house. And were quite reasonably told no. I do hope that's true. He really thinks he's more important than he is.

No, Andy is eyelashes, not eyeliner, hence his nickname-Bambi.

They’d make gorgeous children.. oh.. wait..

It’s both, I think.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/who-andy-burnham-ten-things-9294081

It will be Vance. When I was in Iceland a few years ago, Mike Pence visited and it was the same as described here with all the cars and stuff.

Princess Anne drove past me on her way to a charity event in town. She was in a big old Bentley type car and driving herself whilst chattering away with a chap in the passenger seat. No outriders, no blue lights, no kerfuffle.

He went to Hampton Court Palace, it was closed to public this morning

He was at Hampton Court today.. according to our local Facebook someone shouted "your gaffer's a nonce" at him and the secret service/ bodyguards did not seem happy. Sometimes I really love our country 🤣

Hes up here from Wednesday. Secret service already up here in preparation. Just a private holiday im reliably informed

I'd rather they didn't.

By the same token, I would never expect a British politician of any stripe (or even HRH himself) to be allowed to take armed UK security to the US.

Maybe got tickets for Oasis at Murrayfield.

No - when Trump was in Scotland earlier in the month he had a massive motorcade of umpteen cars too. And cost the Scottish tax payer £5 million in policing.

I think it's supposed to be reciprocal, so if the King or Starmer went to the US, their security would be funded by the US taxpayer. It's just that Starmer and the King don't travel with so much entourage so it's not an even deal.

Did he get a prawn ring?

Why?

He’ll definitely have to fly. The M6 just isn’t the place for self-important Yanks. I can’t imagine he’d be getting out of the car in a 6 hour standstill traffic jam, and playing footy with the car in fronts Jack Russell.

I would immediately find that suspicious. Real top security personnel are beyond poker face.

So who are these amateurs he's using ? Clearly not American if they get "gaffer" and "nonce" in the same sentence. I'd wager he's be sold a cut price package ...

Seems he's got previous for being an entitled arse on his holidays.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/06/jd-vance-ohio-lake-water-levels

There'll be two types of secret service on patrol.

The ones who are designed to be seen, as a deterrent. And the ones you don't see.