Is the British National Front running things?
This is what I wrote here earlier today and a wikipedia editor who has  on his User Page was clearly offended. My oh my. My bad. So, here it is again:
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. 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  .