'Useful idiot' Guy Verhofstadt thanked for 'making case for Brexit with every new remark'
GUY Verhofstadt, the former Belgian Prime Minister and long-term Brexit critic on social media, has been branded a "useful idiot" who underlines the reasons underpinning the UK's decision to quit the bloc every time he tweets. "Every time you tweet your open contempt for the UK you absolutely remind us why we voted to jettison overblown feudal mayors like you.
"For the UK Leave movement, you’ve been a supremely useful idiot."
Mr Verhofstadt had been motivated to post his somewhat inflammatory message showing images of large numbers of British lorries at Dover, having been barred from entering France.
Along with footage from the scene, he tweeted: "We forgot what borders look like.