Hardly uniquely British; the French are always up for a good moan.
The french are more passionate though and their food and wine make up for it. The British moan without hope but they have a lower limit of how much despair they get into. It's strange.
Given the way things are going round here, I think we have much to complain about.
We don’t put that complaining into action though. A nation of boiling frogs.