# Brexit chaos at the ports: why is this a problem now, but was not a problem before the EU?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 5, 2019, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brexit-chaos-at-the-ports-why-is-this-a-problem-now-but-was-not-a-problem-before-the-eu/827260 "2019-01-05T19:40:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 11, 2019, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brexit-chaos-at-the-ports-why-is-this-a-problem-now-but-was-not-a-problem-before-the-eu/827260/221 "2019-01-11T19:58:27Z")

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A cursory peruse of Hansard indicates that hardly anybody gave a toss about the ODR, so I can’t see Westminster dying on a hill over it in Brussels.

It sounds like something the UK would support, if anything.  
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**Post date:** [January 11, 2019, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brexit-chaos-at-the-ports-why-is-this-a-problem-now-but-was-not-a-problem-before-the-eu/827260/222 "2019-01-11T20:07:26Z")

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[Moderating]

I’ve left this go for so long out of hope that it’d be possible to have a factual discussion alongside the many debate threads. I should have realized earlier that it wasn’t working. Since there are already debate threads on this topic, and since this thread apparently can’t stay factual, I’m closing it.

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