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@James1822
+1 on looking right around and facing the car behind, making eye contact with the driver usually works. They tend to think you're going to do something then, and the arm out makes the intention even clearer. I can see this is going to be harder on a hybrid, so don't know what the answer is there.
I often don't go right over to the centre line, because that encourages drivers to think they can squeeze past to your left. I take up the centre point of where a car would be if it was taking a right. I think there's some law that vehicles coming out at a single lane junction should do so one at a time (regardless of whether it's a bike or car or whatever), so you're within your rights to take the lane.