Bad faith

Yesterday it emerged that the party-within-a-party that is the ERG only supported Johnson's Oven Ready Brexit deal after they were promised that the NIP would be undone at a later date.

There is no suggestion this is untrue.

If so, then this is the dictionary definition of bad faith, in signing an international treaty with the intention of never honouring it, or only when it was convenient.

As Chris Grey has pointed out over and over in his Brexit blogs, whatever red meat is fed to the ERG and other Brexiteers to satisfy them, they will always demand more in a few weeks or months.

So, even if Sunak gets his party to back this deal, it will be rejected in a few months and more reneogiations will be demanded, or the NUP Bill brought back to life.

Remember, the only selling point of his election in December 2019 was that we would not have to talk about Brexit again.

It would finally be done.

And yet, here we are.