For all the ignominy under which Labour's coup fiasco has been buried, not much attention has been paid to the really monumental stupidity of its basic assumption. What has been exposed, dissected and forensically examined is the idiotic amateurishness of its tactics, but what was even more obtuse was its conception of the party's problem.
The plotters' argument was that, under Gordon Brown, Labour was failing to present its case effectively: that he was such a dire communicator that the government's message was failing to get across. This was mainly about incompetent presentation: Mr Brown could not sell Labour's philosophy or its policies in a way that did them justice.
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