Cries of "splitters!" abound on the web this week as news unfolded of the splintering of Respect, with George Galloway hosting a rival conference at the same time as the party he represents in the Commons.
"I think if the official Labour conference were taking place, and, for some reason, say Jack Straw decided to call his own conference on the same day, set up his own website, with a different name and his own email, people would assume that he had left the party," said national secretary John Rees.
For more detail - and there is a lot more - on this, Oliver Kamm posts on the comrades and more from the comrades.
The Weekly Worker has a roundup, via Harry's Place.
Craig Murray, formerly our man in Tashkent, notes "the far left in this country seems wonderfully self-destructive", while Comment Central says there is now a "Life of Brian catfight" over the party's name.
Speaking of factionalism, the next instalment in the turf war between left and right came this week with the launch of new super-blogging collective, Liberal Conspiracy.
"There is no denying that Liberal Conspiracy is partly born out of the frustration that many organisations who champion liberal-left ideals do not cooperate much with each other," it says.
Founding member Sunny Hundal of Pickled Politics explained the launch in the Guardian. Difficult to know if it will challenge the likes of ConservativeHome - the right just seem to do this sort of thing better, and other left-of-centre attempts to do something similar have tended to fall flat.
It has some of the cream of the blogging left writing for it, but has already inspired some minor skirmishes over the meaning of 'liberal'.
The unquestionably right-of-centre Devil's Kitchen criticises the new site's comments policy, and predicts it will "provide a rich seam of earnest and contradictory articles to fisk and otherwise take the piss out of".
YouTube clip of the moment is the prime minister delivering a wince-inducing tribute to Countdown. Remarkable.
Also worth watching is this US clip on Play Political, discussing "Gotcha politics" and the influence of the cameraphone.
Another year, another Queen's speech, but this time out the response was somewhat underwhelming. Liberal Democrat MP Steve Webb felt he had heard it all before, and he wasn't alone.
The CoffeeHouse has a potted roundup of some of the press response, Brown fails to seize the agenda.
Most of the sketchwriters were keener to focus on the tiaras, and the Monarchist has a rather nifty photo guide for fans of that sort of thing.
John Redwood was irrepressible in the chamber on Tuesday, and he posts his contribution from Hansard on his blog.
He says that ministers had been discussing the contents of the speech in the papers and on the TV beforehand - interesting to know whether this contravened the Parliament first rule.
Hard to mention Redwood this week without pointing out the reference to his Hello! appearance in Tara Hamilton-Miller's list of top 10 Tory twits.
The Adam Smith blog takes a similar view - the state opening of Parliament no longer amounts to much more than 10 days of traffic jams.
Meanwhile the Telegraph held a discussion this week, how important is political blogging?
Simon Dickson says "there's no sense that a new political force is set to emerge from the blogosphere", while over on the BBC Editors blog Steve Herrmann takes stock of the corporation's bloggers.
