Maybe it's me but I don't understand what it has to do with EU as stated by the original poster (John). It is something from the UK and last time I checked you guys are far from being EU...
When you come from the Uk into EU you don't pay anything, so I wouldn't be happy to pay to go to the UK.
And (I can only speak for Belgium) a foreigner who lives here can only have his car here registered in his country of origin for 6 months. After that police can seize the plates/vehicle and the owner gets fined.
And I must also almost completely agree with Walkabout, have a look in France and Spain at the UK registered vehicles that haven't been in the UK for the past decade...
The difference is with for example Poland, that the roadtax there is almost non-existent, they include this in the fuelprice. So the more you ride, the more fuel you need, the more "tax" you pay. This was confirmed to me by a Polish guy in a discussion I had with him about something else road related.
Anyway, whatever happens in the UK is't easy to control as you only have a few entry points for vehicles anyway...
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