Guy Verhofstadt is due another nomination.

Yesterday (Tuesday 4th August) Verhofstadt announced his desire for an EU army. Again. His comments give rise to the lie by the likes Nick Clegg and other remainers during the campaigning for the referendum that the EU was NOT planning to create its own army. He’s also been whingeing that that nasty orange man, Trump is trying to bullying them by withdrawing about 12,000 US troops from Germany and deploying them elsewhere in Europe. This is a blatant lie. Trump isn’t bullying them at all. He’s sick of tired of the US being the biggest financial contributor to NATO, while most EU countries enjoy the freedom and security that the US is providing them. Most EU countries don’t even pay their share. In fact, Greece is the only EU member to pay the full amount it’s supposed to pay. The UK is the second largest contributor.

The other EU countries, especially Germany, flat out refuse to fully pay their dues, presumably because they believe that the EU army will give them an equally powerful alternative. It won’t. In my opinion, Trump is doing exactly the right thing by moving those troops out of Germany, because the Krauts want to have the security of having the world’s most powerful military stationed within its borders, without any obligation to help pay for them. Trump is not bullying them, he’s simply sick of the US funding the protection for EU states that don’t want to contribute. Guy knows that, but as usual, he’s lying through his ugly teeth. He’s a cunt.

Nominated by: Quick Draw McGraw