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edit: this is a star trek reference
[1] https://www.dol.gov/wb/stats/occ_gender_share_em_1020_txt.ht...
Self defence is still as you say, completely legal.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juries_in_England_and_Wales#Tr...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_King...
Essentially if you have a knife on your person, and you've not got a damn good reason (e.g. it's a breadknife and you're on your way to work at a bakery) you're committing a crime.
Cars are basically impossible to legislate against. What they did is already illegal.
So to answer your question - what's left when everything is already illegal?
The lopsided nature is in part because Scotland has a population of less than London (alone) and other areas of England such as Yorkshire would probably qualify for devolution based on their population (pretty much the same as Scotland).
The whole issue is highly politicized by all sides.