> I think poorly written and inconsistently applied laws is a big part of why the UK has become so selfish It's much deeper than that. The UK's national identi

> I think poorly written and inconsistently applied laws is a big part of why the UK has become so selfish It's much deeper than that. The UK's national identity is tied up in things that no longer exist: the British Empire and WW2. That was the peak, and everything since has been a decline. People have become selfish because the British nation has evaporated. It barely exists. There is no sense of being compatriots, because there is nothing to be compatriots of.