It's exactly because they're not afraid that things got to this point.

I remember back after the 2008 Crash how the UK Government just went for Austerity and gave the money to asset owners (i.e. the rich) so that in the subsequent years the bottom 90% of the population in average saw their income falling at 1% per year in real terms (per the official figures, which themselves tend to understate Inflation) whilst the top 10% saw their incomes in average go up 23% per year.

Meanwhile in France the wealthy were actually telling their Government to tax them more (I kid you not!).

Britain never had a Revolution of the masses (the closest, was the Barons rebelling against the King, which resulted in the Magna Carta, which was just the elites redistributing power amongst themselves), whilst France is well known for their use of the device favored by Monsieur Guillotin.