"Oh sorry we seem to have agreed and signed an international treaty by mistake not realising that what everyone in Northern Ireland was telling us was actually true so now we'd like not to implement it"

International politics equivalent of the dog ate my homework. https://twitter.com/joncstone/status/1273641254602051586
The really exciting part is that the government is quite happy to repeat their success by signing another treaty without time to scrutinise the contents, this time affecting the whole of the UK. https://twitter.com/Sime0nStylites/status/1273676261743906818
8 months after publication we still don't fully understand the Northern Ireland protocol but we'd like to agree and implement a UK-EU trade deal in 6 months, giving Parliament no chance to properly scrutinise. To demonstrate Brexit chaos was not down to a hung Parliament.
Brexit in the spirit of GK Chesterton
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