For those Brits on here, I have a theory:

I think that British people have centuries of breeding behind us to make us aggressive and violent. For 400 years, we sailed around the world conquering and occupying people's lands, we had a standing professional army that was the first in the world with generations of our population surviving or getting rich by simply being more aggressive, better trained and more technologically and commercially equipped than everyone else. Socially, Britain has always been lawless, violent and full of binge-drinkers .... those that disagree should check out the real social history of this place.

Once we decided to give people back their countries, or were booted out, we had the disintegration of our entire economy aided by the fact we had fought WW1 and WW2 (and from the beginning!). We fell into the spiral of economic disintegration because our manufacturing industry no longer had the wherewithal to simply plunder raw materials from around the world to make into products.

Strikes, riots, protests etc were as a result of us struggling to find our new place in the world, yet still being inherently quite militaristic in our attempts to express that failure. For a while, we could find relief in small wars against people and in football holliganism. You will seldom find any Brits who are really anti-war .... we love wars and have fought more of them than any country in history.

Now, we have a PC society that is essentially female-dominated. That's not some sexist statement, I am referring to social mores and customs, a collective belief in civic duty but without any corresponding responsibility to do things ourselves (there's always a 'system' to blame) etc.

This has meant that the latent aggression and violence that has bred into the population for generations upon generations is now turning in on itself.

Anyway.... rant over.