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Amusing, but facetious. The border problem as stated is indeed impossible to solve, but both Brexiter and EU strategy hinges up the idea that the other side will blink first, the EU betting that the Tories will fudge up a sea border, and the Brexiters that the EU will plump for any deal to avoid a no deal (as that would definitely have a hard border).

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Problem with the Tories not blinking is that they don't have a majority in parliament. They're currently being propped up (they have a confidence and supply arrangement) by the DUP who are very much against a sea border and would likely vote against a deal that had a sea border and doing so could bring down the government.

Indeed! It is quite the game of chicken...

Ultimately there is no majority in parliament for any of the options, we are headed for either another election or a re-run of the referendum.

Or indeed in the country: the “smartest” (sleaziest) thing the leave campaign did was to refuse to actually lay out any specific kind of brexit - knowing there was no unity on the brexit side.

yeah there is definitely some last-minute negotiation tactics going on right now... Do think that some of the suggestions by the UK have internal inconsistencies that seem to get ignored somehow

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