First, it's not just British politicians who've lost whatever balls they had.

After underage girls were sexually assaulted in the Barbarossabad swimming pool in Gelnhausen, the CDU mayor of the area pointed out that “hot weather” makes tempers “fray.”

However, local Mayor Christian Litzinge (CDU) appeared to allude that the weather is at least partly to blame for the incident.

In a statement to Welt, he said: “Of course, it’s always high temperatures, and sometimes tempers are frayed.”
They'd be real upset, though, if some parent said "It's hot, so tempers frayed, so there's no reason to get all upset because the mayor and the people running the pool were tarred and feathered.  Or horsewhipped."

Second, remember a few days back, the Brit female cop so upset because nobody would help her when attacked?  

I wonder if the cops have thought about what'll happen if the people get tired of being jailed for self-defense and decide the cops are just part of the enemy?

For instance, say the people who stopped this guy all get arrested, and all their friends and family and coworkers decide "Bleep the coppers!" ?  

I think in one or two of his stories Terry Pratchett referred to it as the 'rough music starting to play'.