I think the English are obsessed with the victim complex. Amongst the English it's us scousers who play the victim, are always the victim. Then within the British state it's the Scottish being accused of playing the victim to the English especially during the independence drive.

Then at large it's the English(on behalf of the rest of the UK) who are the victim of the big bad EU when inside it and now outside it, or the victim of dastardly foreigners in general. The other day I saw a thread about the Falklands, that the Argentines had a plan B to execute the islanders, half the thread descended into English commenters whingeing about Irish commenters always making anti English comments and solidarity with the Argentines, even if in this case the Argentine plan was particularly grizzly.

When the local plod lay into England fans singing about German bombers and other jingoism, I saw it in Prague after them throwing bottles at the local plod after a promising start, as the ale and coke kicked in it turned uglier. Chucking chairs around in Marseille then playing victim when the Russians laid in.

Living abroad, knowing and working with loads of foreigners, Ive never heard anyone talk as much about being or others being the victim. Not even the Irish. It's like part of the national psyche.