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But the border conditions rule out no deal.
What was agreed today still depends on a deal being struck - it doesn't exist as it's own legal construct. It makes a deal much more likely, but doesn't guarantee one. Is my understanding, anyway.
Rees-Mogg might come up with his unicorn - a way of having no border in Ireland, that Ireland will agree to, that isn't CU+SM. If he and his fellow cunts don't find their unicorn then we fail onto SM+CU, and presumably Norway as an output - or we fail onto the kamikaze Brexit, and Ireland has to build a wall to comply with the rules of their EU membership.
Barnier said earlier that all the UK could have was Canada, but as you say that doesn't meet the Irish criteria, which must mean no deal or Norway I guess.