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Author Topic: GB stickers to be replaced by UK  (Read 7024 times)

AlexB

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Re: GB stickers to be replaced by UK
« Reply #15 on: July 05, 2021, 02:33:20 PM »
was it a real paper or just the Mail ?
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Re: GB stickers to be replaced by UK
« Reply #16 on: July 05, 2021, 02:42:42 PM »
Quote from: AlexB on July 05, 2021, 02:33:20 PM
was it a real paper or just the Mail ?

It was the Telegraph Motoring Club  :tiphat
It's also in Auto Express as well as other 'newspapers'
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Re: GB stickers to be replaced by UK
« Reply #17 on: July 05, 2021, 03:37:19 PM »
Quote from: Worf on July 05, 2021, 01:01:49 PM
You dont need to change anything. Just an additional "UK" sticker "somewhere on the vehicle" Less than £2 on ebay.

True enough but its still my £ and time being wasted to no good purpose.

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Re: GB stickers to be replaced by UK
« Reply #18 on: July 05, 2021, 03:45:14 PM »
"you don't need to change anything"

and I won't be.

France in a few weeks on grandparent duty (fingers crossed, in the Ami)

Spain (the Picos) in the Dormobile next year
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Re: GB stickers to be replaced by UK
« Reply #19 on: July 05, 2021, 05:01:10 PM »
Quote from: Genem on July 05, 2021, 12:52:26 PM

If the former then that's an additional cost of £? per vehicle and an afternoon of faffing about that they failed to mention when describing the benefits of Brexit.

It's almost as if Brexit wasn't actually designed to benefit the people. I'm shocked.
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Re: GB stickers to be replaced by UK
« Reply #20 on: July 05, 2021, 05:10:03 PM »
Mines staying with its Kernow  badge ,
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Re: GB stickers to be replaced by UK
« Reply #21 on: July 05, 2021, 05:18:43 PM »
Silly season. It'll be Aliens landing in Hyde park next Who cares buy it if needed.
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Re: GB stickers to be replaced by UK
« Reply #22 on: July 05, 2021, 05:56:19 PM »
Quote from: Worf on July 05, 2021, 01:01:49 PM

Back in the day the likes of the AA/RAC used to post you a free sticker when you informed them you were going abroad, maybe they still do?

They used to be proper badges, not stickers.
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Re: GB stickers to be replaced by UK
« Reply #23 on: July 05, 2021, 08:51:36 PM »
MCN has ran an article this week saying no longer need a green card to be insured in the EU so guess it’s a case of win some, lose some. Never paid for a green card directly when they were required (not that long ago I think) so not sure if that cancels out the £2 or not.

Anyone know why it was ever a GB sticker as we have been the United Kingdom since 1801 which must predate the stickers?
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Re: GB stickers to be replaced by UK
« Reply #24 on: July 05, 2021, 09:12:33 PM »
They come from the Geneva Convention on Road Traffic of 1949 - I don't know why we were ever GB and not UK  ???

Wikipedia
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Re: GB stickers to be replaced by UK
« Reply #25 on: July 05, 2021, 09:14:33 PM »
Quote from: Matt Reeves on July 05, 2021, 11:24:45 AM
Exactly! Who cares?

Me for one.  My passport says United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland.  Should always have been UK. But we are in danger of politics here.
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Re: GB stickers to be replaced by UK
« Reply #26 on: July 05, 2021, 10:29:46 PM »
Quote from: AlexB on July 05, 2021, 02:33:20 PM
was it a real paper or just the Mail ?

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We’ll I’m hopefully off euroleafing to the Pyrenees in two weeks so I’ll dust off my old metal GB plate regardless. I usually take it off once away from the ports anyway as I hope it makes it harder for the speed cameras and traffic wardens to know where to send the tickets.  :neener
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Re: GB stickers to be replaced by UK
« Reply #27 on: July 05, 2021, 10:31:09 PM »
Quote from: Genem on July 05, 2021, 01:00:46 PM
A friend reports seeing a cop elsewhere in Europe peel the GB sticker off a truck then walk round to the cab to fine the driver....

...and poor Halfords, all that stock of stickers that will have to be binned.

 :shakeinghead

He'd do well to peel it off my S2, I've got an original 1950's white and black painted metal GB plate rivetted on the back !
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Re: GB stickers to be replaced by UK
« Reply #28 on: July 06, 2021, 11:55:39 AM »
^^^^ He'll fine you and then stick the plate on Ebay

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Re: GB stickers to be replaced by UK
« Reply #29 on: July 06, 2021, 12:05:31 PM »
Oddjob's OK because the change doesn't come in until September.
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