==Jingoistic bastards, as always== 

 Right. While all you shiteheads and shitehawks are doing what you do best, let's just instill some clarity into this article: The British are, culturally, imperialist bastards for whom invading another country and claiming it as their own is as natural as mother's milk. Have you ever seen all that red on the old world maps? [with mother England at the centre of the world, of course] Do you really think that that was the product of moderation, or the most expansive fanaticism in world history? This crowd, the "'British Isles' is only geographic" brigade, had 25% of the world by the balls. By the fucking crotch. Raving nationalism doesn't get any more extreme (it did, however, get more efficient in Nazism). Like this term the "British Isles" this Empire business was also not political; rather, the defenders of the British faith would tell you, it was a "civilising" mission designed to "help" the natives. This utterly self-serving masterrace rejection of, and false representation of, other cultures has been a British cultural foundation stone for centuries, and centuries. The British invaded Ireland and started calling the Irish "rebels" when the British were the ones rebelling against the established Irish order of well over a millenia. The same people who are saying the "British Isles" is not political are the same muppets who claimed the British Empire was about civilising savages, or that the Irish were "rebelling" against the British invasion. The British are never "political", are they? Dangerous fanatical bastards- all of them. Claiming Ireland to be in this neologism from 1621 called the "British Isles" is entirely designed to assert a British claim to Ireland. This is so obvious that there is no way in the wide earthly world that the Brits here actually believe that the "British Isles" is anything but a reflection of their blood-soaked throat-strangling hold upon Ireland for the past few centuries of Ireland's long and ancient history. This wikipedia article is simply their modern means to assert their colonial pike up the Irish arse. "British Isles"? Us? Go fuck yourselves, you arrogant Anglo-Saxon upstart peasant bastards. We were sending Christian missionaries around Europe while you were barbarians destroying Europe. Thanks be to fuck we're surrounded by water.