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>is mostly an outlet of expression for a latent feeling of nationalism
I don't think so. It was the fact that it was such a pointless act of vandalism that caused so much outrage.
> with their 2000 years of history on the island
Dude, stop fucking people about. The country was usurped about 1000 years ago by Frenchmen of Danish heritage and they rubbed the native Anglo-Saxon faces into the dirt. And those Anglo-Saxons had similarly usurped native Celtic peoples around 600 years before that. And let's not get into these Celtic people fighting Pictish people for control of proto-Scotland.
Trying to bundle all the UK's myriad historic ethnicities into a single "white british" category so you can other everyone else is nationalist bullshit.
Which are the indigenous ethnic groups experiencing dissolution?
Exactly, Britain for the Britons! Anglo-Saxons out, and take your ugly Germanic language with you!