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 Personally speaking (of course) I think the British should just give up the ghost, get over their loss of empire, and start living side-by-side with the Irish without feeling the need for such jingoistic terms like ""British Isles"". After Germany and France, Ireland remains Britain's third largest market in absolute terms, a quite surprising reality which is often overlooked (http://www.eiu.com/index.asp?layout=ib3Article&article;_id=114081196&pubtypeid;=1122462497&country;_id=1460000146&category;_id=775133077&rf;=0). That's a lot of jobs in Britain depending on just being respectful neighbours to the Irish. Economic sanity, not to mention neighbourliness, is on the side of avoiding this term. 86.42.99.141  "