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That's not going to work. The British government is basically non-functional and Sunak is effectively a caretaker PM until the next general election where Labour will sweep them out. Unionists don't want any Brexit deal that has them in a special political unit and the EU won't accept any Brexit deal that includes free market access. From any outsider perspective, this has gotten so complicated where it is hopeless to find a solution that works for anyone.

Conservatives need to admit that Brexit has failed, or at the very least they've failed to facilitate the UK leaving the EU. Which is what this agreement doesn't do: it tries to sustain trade flows that Brexit doesn't allow. Labour is willing to eject NI to make Brexit real, and this is a winning platform as most of the electorate doesn't live in NI.

But why? The current Brexit deal is working out just great!

I can see only three paths here that are feasible(ish) with the current positions of the parties.

• UK dumps Northern Ireland and NI becomes a separate nation and Brexit goes through

• Irish reunification under the Good Friday Agreement with a hard barrier in the Irish Sea

• Brexit fails as the EU won't accept a sucker deal.