Jacqueline, More often than not, the sort of people that accuse British workers of being lazy, are those that are sat on their arses, in nice. dry, air conditioned offices, on mega bucks, most British workers are not lazy, they just quite righty resent having to accept some of the worse and unsavory jobs, purely because they are deemed to be unskilled.
[I recall donkeys years ago, doing some work in a large P&O second floor office, all levels of staff spent endless time when they were not popping across the road to Lyons for their numerous tea breaks, going on about some builders opposite when they dared to stop for a rest from what was real work.