GB plates = Good Bye

[Dorset Bob]

It looks like that after the 28th September 2021, if you want to go abroad, we will have to display a 'UK' sticker, or badge, as the good old GB one will not be allowed.

https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/news/mot...ew-uk-version/

The GB badge has been an internationally recognised for 111 years.
Another blow to our motoring heritage.

I can't keep up with all this nonsense!

[steve-45]

Strange, I ordered a rear plate for a trailer last week and I was not offered UK as a badging option !

Also looks like I need to order a new rear plate for the 75 as the GB plate with union flag I bought after Brexit is now redundant.

How long ago did the plate manufacturers know about this ?

[WillyHeckaslike]

This change I believe was requested by non-jobbers within the tory party, someone by the name of Shapps being the chief among them. Definitely not driven by the EU or the UN.

[BRG75]

Steve (post 2)

On ebay are stick on UK, and GB, badges. These go on top of whatever you currently have, on your existing number plate.

I've just looked at a couple, at £1.50 odd.

Regards

Mike

[Robson Rover Repair]

I don't think people realise the significance of it.

Here in Northern Ireland your car will be burned out if you have a GB sticker on it in the wrong area. I've been chased out of areas for having a UK mainland plate when I was younger and not a Northern Ireland plate.

Plenty even put IRL badges on their Northern Ireland cars and are then incorrectly insured for accidents that occur. It's even worse, the absolute extreme will even bring an OPEL into Northern Ireland, import it, and drive it just to prove their loyalty lies outside of the UK.

Plenty of local owners will confirm this. I previously travelled on a NI badge, which during my travel was ratified by the EU as unacceptable mid 2015 ish mid journey so I had to try and find a GB badge in France of all places for my insurance!

Having a single UK badge is a big thing, and frankly it will solve a lot of issues here, especially with those who will be legally required to have one.

The most you folks have to worry about is a bit of English / Scottish banter. It's massively different for us here

[Rev Jules]

Will that mean if I don’t intend to travel abroad I can keep my GB chrome sticker?

[WillyHeckaslike]

Originally Posted by Robson Rover Repair

It's even worse, the absolute extreme will even bring an OPEL into Northern Ireland, import it, and drive it just to prove their loyalty lies outside of the UK ... The most you folks have to worry about is a bit of English / Scottish banter. It's massively different for us here

Interesting. Any particular reason for Opel as opposed to any other non-GB manufacturer? I am aware of Opel's German connection and courtesy of a spell of employment in the Wirral/Dee area I'm also aware that the GB hatred you refer to extended to support of the NAZI's during WW2 - not least after I was told that lights were left on and blazing by some in Ireland to aid the Luftwaffe during the blackouts.

Regards Scotland, both England and Ireland do have something in common here. Both have been invaded by Scotland and whereas Ireland gave them a "naughty word", nay not a "naughty word" but a very "naughty word" for their trouble, England had a very lucky escape. An uncomfortable truth for those who like to hate all things GB.

[clf]

Originally Posted by Robson Rover Repair

I don't think people realise the significance of it.

Here in Northern Ireland your car will be burned out if you have a GB sticker on it in the wrong area. I've been chased out of areas for having a UK mainland plate when I was younger and not a Northern Ireland plate.

Plenty even put IRL badges on their Northern Ireland cars and are then incorrectly insured for accidents that occur. It's even worse, the absolute extreme will even bring an OPEL into Northern Ireland, import it, and drive it just to prove their loyalty lies outside of the UK.

Plenty of local owners will confirm this. I previously travelled on a NI badge, which during my travel was ratified by the EU as unacceptable mid 2015 ish mid journey so I had to try and find a GB badge in France of all places for my insurance!

Having a single UK badge is a big thing, and frankly it will solve a lot of issues here, especially with those who will be legally required to have one.

The most you folks have to worry about is a bit of English / Scottish banter. It's massively different for us here

to be fair, it is not half as bad as it used to be, regarding english plates. Dealers, for the past ten years or so, have become lazy regarding re-registering 'pre-registered' cars. Or the influx of cheaper english cars with 'Just out of England, mainly motorway miles' being sold by the back street dealers.

But I still wouldnt park a car with a GB/UK sticker on the Falls, or IRL on the Shankill lol. Would even be nervous with an IL or UI plate on a car there too - an old manager of mine had his tyres slashed whilst parked on the Shankill (the main road, not in a residential street, with the police suggesting that it was either mistaken identity or the UI plate).

When I first got the ZT, I had to go to a conference at the Met, on the Springfield Road, to which I was told there was no parking. I looked in to removing the chequered union flags from the rear for the risk of vandalism. Found out it had onsite parking, so didnt have to do anything. But they have faded now, and have no intention of replacing them.

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With regards to UK/GB stickers, the more correct label should be UK anyway (UK = Great Britain and Northern Ireland, although probably better represented would be BI for British Isles - but then that would be divisive too not just in NI, but as the BI includes Ireland, it would probably start a war lol). I thought this had been agreed at some level though, early in negotiations regarding the rules of driving in EU countries after Brexit (eg from Northern to Southern Ireland).

[torque2me]

Originally Posted by WillyHeckaslike

This change I believe was requested by non-jobbers within the tory party, someone by the name of Shapps being the chief among them. Definitely not driven by the EU or the UN.

Shapps, aaaah you got to love him

Kev

[clf]

Originally Posted by wraymond

My daughter and her Irish (County Clare) husband have toured the Republic several times in their English registered car. Never had a single trouble anywhere. Lucky I guess.



Some of the posts above are eye-openers to say the least, especially with the latest news about a new agreement and the associated fuss. I now listen to my Furies records with renewed interest.

Southern ireland are less bitter (to the point of being non existent) than some parts of northern Ireland, but I would not expect any issues with a mainland plate in the south.

They are two different countries (with different narratives on history too lol).

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