I blew it.
You rightly hold SoylentNews to a high standard and I let you down when I merged three different political stories into a single story.
Rushing to get out the door to get to work, seeing the story queue running out, having seen the interest in the UK elections in our IRC channel, having heard much on the radio concerning former FBI Director Comey's testimony, seeing a story appear on a likely nomination for that vacated FBI post, and aware of the guideline on only one Politics story per day — I made a hurried decision to merge all three stories together.
The community rightly pointed out the shortcomings in that decision. Rest assured I won't make THAT decision again!
In retrospect, it would have been much better if I released two separate stories — one with the UK Election vote, and another with a merge of the FBI-related stories with, say, a 12-hour spacing between them.
It is a privilege to volunteer for this site, one that I do not take lightly. I let down the community — you deserve better. Trust that I have taken this lesson to heart and will strive to do better going forwards.
--martyb
[n1: There will be a UK election story coming in the next day or so, when more details are available. The majority of the coverage so far is speculation and reports of agreements have been retracted.]
(Score: 5, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Monday June 12 2017, @12:17AM
No, Cameron resigned because he nailed his colours to the mast of Remain, and lost. Prime Ministers are selected by their Party, they are not voted for directly. Cameron had lost the confidence of his Party.
Wow, not even nearly.
No, Theresa May, Cameron's replacement takes over the campaign completely, her strategy is to be the face of the Tories nationally and base the whole thing on her offer of "Strong, Stable Leadership" and her ability to negotiate Brexit. No-one is buying that.
True, they also promise to remove the hugely unpopular University fees, which will make everyone better off. Corbyn is also surprisingly relaxed and natural and comes across as a potential leader for the first time.
Bullshit
Both main parties are pro immigration, (at least their policies are). In truth the Brexit Tories are pretty racist and were mostly the ones pushing for the leave vote so that they can get rid of the free labour movement part of the EU agreement.
So set against Brexit that the bloke that will probably wind up the next PM is... Boris Johnston, the guy who ran the whole Brexit campaign. No-one is more pro-Brexit that Boris, and he is in the Conservative cabinet.
I'm glad you've been following the UK elections, but you seem to have misunderstood most of it.