Is the McDonagh insurgency doomed to failure?

The Siobhan McDonagh insurgency is on its third day, with a wide range of names and rather devastating quotations in today’s press all aimed at Labour activists who gather in Manchester this time next week. I’ve just come from News 24 which is leading with footage it has today of Fiona McTaggart on today’s Politics Show but but there are far more names. Here’s a list of who’s saying what:-

— Barry Gardiner, a special envoy for Brown: accusing him of “vacillation, loss of international credibility and timorous political manoeuvres that the public cannot understand”. (Sunday Times)
— Frank Field: “Given we haven’t got a cabinet stuffed with people who would win political VCs, this strategy is forced upon MPs because the cabinet has so far failed to carry out one of its key roles” (ST)
— Fiona McTaggart: “My constituents have begun to pity the Labour party. I am not in politics to be pitied.”