UK has a car first culture where everyone driving thinks they are above anyone else who isn’t driving. They believe they have a right to move at their maximum allotted speed without being interrupted by another human. I constantly have people speeding up into me when I cross the road or veering into incoming traffic while I’m on my bicycle to scare me with my life.
Other European countries I visit are not like this, not sure how it happened
When I was younger I used to road rage and break car rear windscreen wipers who played chicken with my life and cycle off while they were in traffic. I wish I was fit enough to continue doing that
for the same reason we have forward (forward) and aft (back)… oh wait