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An analysis which combines two personal bogeymen - one dimensional politics (everything *must* be about economic left-right) and false consciousness ("if voters support something that seems obviously wrong to me, it must be because they have been misled).
Simon is right that Ed Miliband didn't fail in 2015 because the public was too right wing on econ issues to elect him. He failed because many of the voters he needed weren't voting on economic issues at all - a problem Ed M recognised (but couldn't address) but Simon just ignores
English politics is dominated by an identity conflict (Brexit) while Scottish politics is completely dominated by two identity conflicts (Brexit and IndyRef). Perhaps not everything is only or mainly about economics, for at least some voters?
I like Simon and enjoy a lot of his stuff. But ironically he is I think guilty of the same sin he diagnoses in his critiques of "media macro" - focussing on one superficially appealing but ultimately misleading account because it fits his priors.
