I think you can see a real difference between Scotland and England if you look at Thatcher. Thatcher was despised by the English upper class, the old boy network, and was also despised by socialists in England and Scotland. But Thatcher was loved mainly by the English middle class and aspirant lower working class in places like Basildon, Essex. They liked her because they thought she was on their side for aspiration and opportunity and would restrict their progress and freedom to succeed less than the socialists or upper class Tories.
The middle class have been held down by the upper classes who fear them and their demands for more rights and freedoms and power.
As upper class socialist, Tristram Hunt, says in his article "Victory of the middle class", their success has been due to their wish for self-government, nonconformism. Opposition to being told what to do whether by Brussels bureaucrats, bigwigs, the state or busybodies defines the middle class of Middle England.
"With industrialisation and urbanisation the economic power of the Victorian middle classes expanded. And with reforms to local government and the national franchise so did their political muscle. As their standing grew, they became less reserved about expressing their cultural self-confidence. The iconography of nonconformist chapels, museums, stock exchanges, banks, factories, even baths and washhouses, became testimonies to the creativity and prosperity of the middle classes. The sumptuously decorated Victorian town hall and grand city piazza were affirmations of the middle-class tradition of self-government which Guizot had traced back to Roman times and through to the Italian Renaissance. When Titus Salt designed his mills at Saltaire outside Bradford, he did so consciously evoking the Renaissance style of previous merchant princes.
By the latter half of the 19th century, middle-class culture dominated Britain's provincial towns and cities. From the novels of Dickens to the Hallé orchestra, from the multiplying fortresses of unitarian worship to the lecture series of literary and philosophical societies, middle-class culture proudly outshone aristocratic philistinism. As the 19th became the 20th century, the middle class continued to grow. In 1941, Orwell quizzically remarked on the tendency of advanced capitalism to enlarge the middle class and not wipe it out. He went on to detail with brilliant intimacy the spread of middle-class habits among the working class. But that initial pioneer spirit of the Victorian bourgeoisie, the sense of middle-class election vitally linked to a nonconformist conscience was gone. And by the 1970s Huber saw the unique values of the middle class - thrift, responsibility, self-sacrifice - whittled away by a socialist establishment.
Today as our supremely bourgeois Queen prepares to celebrate her golden jubilee, it's clear the middle classes are back, wealthier and more confident than ever. For when John Prescott can declare, as the deputy prime minister of a Labour government, that we are "all middle class now" in the same manner as William Harcourt once announced that we were all socialists - then the bourgeoisie has surely won the great historical class struggle."
www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/may/10/britishidentity.socialsciences
I think it comes down to the fact that Scotland is much more socialist than England. Scotland disliked Thatcher much more than England, Scotland believes more in egalitarianism than England, while England values libertarianism and freedom above socialism and egalitarianism. It is essentailly the old battle of left and right, socialism and conservatism, Godon Brown and Donald Dewar and Thatcher and Farage.