After the internecine feud between Brown and Blair, this was the last thing most Labourites wanted.
That "revolution" is better known as the American civil war – the bloody internecine conflict in which 750,000 Americans died.
But Hamlet is also the favourite in south-west England, where ancestral internecine conflict and grievance is generally – though I may be wrong – less pronounced.
Mr Miliband won the leadership in September 2010, only four months after the party had lost power: his first task was to contain the fall-out from that defeat and keep it out of a spiral of internecine recriminations.
From 1945 to 1989 the number of civil wars rose by leaps and bounds, as America and the Soviet Union fuelled internecine fighting in weak young states, either to gain advantage or to stop the other doing so.
Whatever the rationale, the long internecine Tory struggle between Eurosceptics and Euro-enthusiasts is over: the sceptics won.Unity, however, also has its risks.
The question is whether the deteriorating situation in Syria and Iraq will throw a big wrench into Mr Obama's programme of turning American foreign policy away from the endless bloody internecine warfare of the Middle East, and towards more promising subjects such as trade, East Asia, and the international legal order.In the end, the wrench in question will probably be small.
But the 2003 invasion of Iraq looks more like the defenestration of Prague moment, setting the stage as it did for the internecine fighting between the Shia and Sunni communities of the region.
His UFF companions were likelier culprits, their bomb intended for a Catholic target.How did a small neighbourhood of housing estates and busy shops descend into internecine mayhem?
Two years into Mr Wasserstein's rule, internecine battles are still raging and shareholders are revolting.
One of the worst internecine battles of recent years claimed two Palestinian lives, wrecked three PA armoured cars and put 30-plus people in hospital.
