It's the UK. No idea on their UOF policies or whatever, he was looking to start a confrontation or else he would have just cooperated with them.
Doesn't matter the country, human nature is the same everywhere. When people want to be confrontational they will act very similarly, he was acting aggressively enough to clearly not want to resolve anything easily.
In the US, if the officers had a valid reason for stopping him then there would be just cause to ask for ID, his failure to present ID may lead to something like this, his attitude was the only driving force there. The two officers were very shy and weak on aggressiveness.