Brexit Deal Published. Where is Ireland?

After reading some of the text of the Brexit deal and coming to the same conclusion as others that we will be locked into a customs union in perpetuity (BRexit In Name Only), it seems the great stumbling block that the EU have used with great skill is Northern Ireland and the border with the South.

They have used Northern Ireland and our own Union of Nations against us, so that in order to preserve the frictionless border between Northern and Southern Ireland the EU have cannily locked the rest of the Union into lockset with EU regulations.

The EU have gamed us into this. The kicker is if we agree to this agreement, we have no way to unilaterally exit the agreement, we have to ask permission to leave. A lovely way to hamstring any subsequent government, even if it was an anti-EU one ( for instance if UKIP get into power).

All I can see now is a rejection of the deal by Parliament and a no-deal exit from the the EU machine, with several political scalps along the way.

That's if out MPs and Lords respect the result of the referendum. Time will tell.