I'm a bit confused about the implications of there being no free prescriptions in England (except for those who do get them like me). Is this seen as some dreadful anti-English conspiracy by the Scots and Welsh?

The Villan asks "Why can't those living in England get the same privelages and free prescriptions etc". Because that is what the Westminster parliament has decided.

Aneurin Bevan, who was largely responsible for founding the NHS, was Welsh by the way.