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My problem with these is not so much the obnoxious tone, but the blanket nature of the instruction.
Clearly it's not always necessary to stay back. I probably pass at least a dozen of these stickers each day. Most of them are on small-to-medium vans sat stationary in gridlock on straight sections of road. I breeze past up the inside because I'm in a nice wide cycle lane with good sight lines and the danger is minimal.
In my opinion, this sort of "crying wolf" only serves to desensitise cyclists to dangers that are very real in certain circumstances. The same sticker on a tipper truck at a junction might therefore be ignored.
It feels like a "there, we did something" political approach to me and I don't like it.