I hate to say, it but Boris has been making good progress. Just 20 days ago, the EU was insisting that the backstop was 'essential', but he's already managed to talk them down to 'indispensable'. I fully believe that by October, he will have gotten them all the way down to 'crucial' or even 'vital' and they may have entirely run out of synonyms by October 31st, and then where will they be? They'll have no choice but to accept a deal on whatever terms we want. What a great man.