George Orwell was writing about this 70 years ago.
http://orwell.ru/library/essays/lion/english/e_eye
He reckons it's part of the national character, and that the other side of the coin is that we will never swallow the kind of rhetoric that brought fascists to power in other parts of Europe.
The collapse of the BNP being a case in point.
Billy Bragg wrote: Sweet moderation, heart of this nation...
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