We would either need to wait for the next Ice Age, to make the Channel and North Sea dry land, or for the United Kingdom to break up.
Or was there an annexation I missed? I've been busy the last few weeks.
I appreciate that British Isles is a geographical term that is disapproved of by many Irish people (although British and Irish Isles is a rather clumsy term to describe the whole group).
As I understand it the largest island in the Isles is properly called Great Britain (at least as a political unit), although possibly just Britain as a geographic term.
All I can say is my geography teacher (35 or so years ago) took the view that England and Wales were Britain and England, Wales and Scotland were Great Britain.
