Riding back to the UK without MOT and tax
SORN the bike online. As long as you have valid insurance and have booked an MOT appointment you should be OK.
Get an overnight ferry/early train and pre book your MOT so you can ride directly from the ferry port to the testing station, obviously getting off the ferry in Portsmouth and having a booked MOT in Glasgow wouldn't cut it!!! Once MOT is in hand go to nearest MacDonalds and use their wifi to buy your tax online.
As an aside - Talking to a mate of mine who is a traffic cop .. if a registration shows up on their ANPR as untaxed and/or no MOT (unless you are riding like a twat) then they don't usually bother pulling ... reason being is 9 times out of 10 it is just because the system hasn't updated .. not saying that that is the company line across all forces though.
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