Thread by @GeorgePeretzQC

You could call it part of the “great deal” that was the centrepiece of the manifesto on which the party @danielmgmoylan supports, and whose whip he takes, was elected.

https://twitter.com/danielmgmoylan/status/1358573311681306629

Same point applies to @DanielJHannan, whose article (rightly eviscerated by @GavinBarwell here) also fails to mention his support for the said manifesto and “great deal”.

https://twitter.com/gavinbarwell/status/1358487991866523652

Note too that the issues created by the Irish Sea border would have been less acute if the UK had gone for the broadly Swiss-type arrangements that Hannan supported (and wrote a post-referendum book about) before he decided to cheer-lead the radicalisation of his party.

(See “What’s Next”).

In both cases, the noble Lords could start their condemnation of the Protocol by repenting of their support for the 2019 Conservative manifesto and for the withdrawal agreement which was the centrepiece of that manifesto.

But at the moment, their protestations about the Protocol look like the behaviour about which Edward Carson memorably complained.

Or like Wotan at the start of the Ring: trying, by disreputable strategems, to escape the express terms of a deal they freely entered into and celebrated as a triumph.