Today, I am a little more empathetic to the splinterist position, though I still do not support it.

[LoZoccolo]

Somehow I missed this quote from Noel Gallagher from 2007:

I'd been unemployed all my life. It was a big deal for me when he got in. Now David Cameron is no different than our Tony Blair and Gordon Brown is no different than our David Cameron. They're all cut from the same cloth and it annoys me that the biggest political icon in the last 30 years has been Margaret Thatcher, and she's a dick. Someone who tried to destroy the working class. It freaks me out. So I don't really think there's anything left to vote for. I believe that I, as a person, can only change things once every 5 years and that's by voting, and my point is that even casting that vote means that the same guy gets in, the only difference is one has a red tie and the other has a blue one. That's all it means, so I think that I should start the Gallagher Party.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=1hOUN99LtUg

As you might know, Noel Gallagher is someone who I admire, so I was kind-of conflicted when I read this. I don't think it makes sense, ultimately, but I think I can understand that people get to a certain place where despair overtakes reason, kind-of how I can relate to a depressed person having been depressed a few times, even though I know it makes you think irrationally. Like if he said that to me, I don't think I'd instantly get angry at him like I sometimes do to people here when they say similar things.

[BootinUp]

1. How do you define splinterist?

It seems to me there is no clear line really not until you won't vote for the nominee of the party anyways.