We blame brexit for everything at the moment, and in some cases rightly so, this one snuck in the back door yesterday while we were all queuing for fuel, the old style European number plate blue stripe down the side with the Eu circle of stars and “GB” under it is no longer legal in Europe and with planing a trip abroad soon it mean I have to either cover that up on my number plate and then have a sticker or change the plates to the new “compliant” version. What does the new version look like, well as we are no longer in Europe is sort of stands to reason we don’t have the European flag so that’s been replaced with the union (Jack) flag, but what annoys me and makes no sense is that after hundreds of years of being Great Britain we have changed that also to UK.
Why?
Well our government not Europe decided to change this and told Europe that they wanted UK instead of GB so as to not offend the northern Irish, except the only part of the uk that these number plate changes don’t apply to is Northern Ireland !!
Anyway I’m not covering my car is stupid stickers so new number plates it is, that’s £26 I’ll never get back.
Why?
Well our government not Europe decided to change this and told Europe that they wanted UK instead of GB so as to not offend the northern Irish, except the only part of the uk that these number plate changes don’t apply to is Northern Ireland !!
Anyway I’m not covering my car is stupid stickers so new number plates it is, that’s £26 I’ll never get back.