An English Problem

Now that the fires have been put out and the glass swept away, the questions on the riots which rocked England this Summer should be asked and the main is is why was it only England?
The riots never spread to the rest of Great Britain and were exclusively confined to England although riots also took place in Belfast but were perpetrated by British loyalists in some sort of wrongheaded support for the English far-right but Scotland and Wales remained peaceful.
An historian puts it down to England's role in the United Kingdom where the English crown extended its power first over the British Isles and the Scottish, Welsh and Irish played minor roles in the creation of Britain with the English its primary driving force.
Great Britain and England are conflated in many English minds, a 2018 YouGov poll put 82% of English identified as British rather than English while only 56% of Scots considered themselves British rather than Scottish and 55.2% of Welsh preferred to be Welsh before British.   
It is further noted that while Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own Government, England doesn't and has the British Government and while each of the United Kingdom has its own National Anthem, the English one is the British one which all reinforces the idea that English and British are one and the same.
Brexit and it's call to 'to take back control' was mainly supported by English voters rather than those in other parts of the UK (Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to remain) although immediately afterwards Westminster refused Scotland another referendum to do the same.
It could be that the Far-Right does not have much of a hold in the other nations of Great Britain or that the English are more racist and intolerant of 'the other' but it is interesting that when the Conservative Party were at their most racist and scapegoating Asylum Seekers to deflect from their awful cuts to public services and economic turmoil, Scotland rejected the Tories to vote in an SNP Government, Wales went Labour and Northern Ireland voted for Sinn Féin.