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Highly recommend reading this if you have any doubt as to whether the Johnson plan (not a deal) is or could be acceptable to the EU in this form. It isn't.
Stop totting up votes for the unachievable.
Stop totting up votes for the unachievable.
This thread also well worth reading on the relationship between the deliverability of the Johnson plan and the domestic votes to pass Parliament.
My own longer consideration of the Johnson proposals - "If not dead on arrival in Brussels, Boris Johnson’s plan certainly seems to be in intensive care..." prospectmagazine.co.uk/economics-and-…
All that said, and what provides just a flicker of hope, is that these are the most realistic UK proposals yet in terms of accepting that customs and regulatory checks exist. A low bar, and the proposed solutions are unacceptable. But from acorns...? (NB not that optimistic...) 
Great response from @alanbeattie who has faced more than his fair share of people claiming an international deal is closer than ever before
