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Title: UK not GB apparently
Post by: Rynglieder on Friday, 08 October 2021, 03:17 AM
Just in case you missed it - If anyone is going abroad in the future they will need a UK identifier on their vehicle.

Previously I always used to order a registration plate with GB surrounded by the EU stars so I was covered for my European trips and I was quite content to carry on like this until forced to stop.

It seems they day has come – Unsurprisingly since we have now left the EU if we take our vehicles abroad it must have a UK sticker. Carrying a plate with GB on will not do it, if your registration plate shows a GB (even with a Union Flag rather than the EU stars) you will have to apply a UK sticker as well.

https://www.gov.uk/displaying-number-plates/flags-symbols-and-identifiers
(https://www.gov.uk/displaying-number-plates/flags-symbols-and-identifiers)
I rather suspect that the switch to UK from GB is all part of Bojo's intention to make us feel that we are one united country and the peoples of Scotland and Northern Ireland are not in any way discontented.

Never mind, if the Scots do achieve independence and Northern Ireland starts to blur into the Republic there will just be England and Wales in the union and we can all pay to change our number plates again to read Wangland.

OK, the stickers to cover up my EU plates aren't expensive, but it's yet another few pounds to add to my personal Brexit bill.

Title: Re: UK not GB apparently
Post by: DP1400 on Friday, 08 October 2021, 06:32 AM
United Kingdom??? Is someone having a laugh here?.....Nah, Great Britain will do for me thanks very much. :stir:
Title: Re: UK not GB apparently
Post by: Hooli on Friday, 08 October 2021, 09:04 AM
I never bothered with GB stickers, so I won't bother with UK ones either.
Title: Re: UK not GB apparently
Post by: VladTepes on Friday, 08 October 2021, 02:05 PM
Why are country stickers even needed at all?   :whatever:
Title: Re: UK not GB apparently
Post by: Irish in Oz on Friday, 08 October 2021, 06:36 PM
Quote from: VladTepes on Friday, 08 October  2021, 02:05 PM
Why are country stickers even needed at all?   :whatever:

Why do they need different number plates for different states in Australia.
The main difference between UK and Europe is they drive on opposite sides of road, so if you have a UK sticker your probably going the wrong way.
Title: Re: UK not GB apparently
Post by: VladTepes on Monday, 11 October 2021, 10:32 AM
Yeah but the plates are already different. The country stickers are a requirement above and beyond that. Just seems odd to me. 
Title: Re: UK not GB apparently
Post by: Mick_J on Monday, 11 October 2021, 06:50 PM
It wouldn't be so bad if the UK was united but the little ginga jock ninja wants to be French.  :doh:
Title: Re: UK not GB apparently
Post by: Hooli on Monday, 11 October 2021, 06:53 PM
Aye the krazy wee krankie needs to be sent back to kids TV, she's nae fit to run a parish council let alone pretend to run a country.