Is the UK multinational?

An editor had added the adjective 'multinational' to the description of the UK, and provided supporting references. This was reverted without explanation so I re-added. I see no reason why this material should have been removed, but would be interested in other views. Cheers   

I've removed it. I think it's deeply confusing to have it in the very first sentence; "multinational" has a number of different meanings, and the most common interpretation is not really the one we intend here - it evokes images of a company which operates in several different countries, etc. We already explain the unusual "one country made of several countries" thing in the lead; I don't think we need to put it so prominently and in such a potentially ambiguous way.  | talk |