It will look at the mandate handed to a party it claimed was planning to privatise the NHS, and take that as evidence people want renationalisation of the railways. It will look at young voters and Green voters and SNP voters, and again tell itself “these are the special voters – they are actually our voters, but they just don’t know it yet”. It will use that as an excuse to again ignore all the rest – those voters, the significant majority of voters, that don’t neatly fit its progressive equation.