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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 The majority of the coverage so far is speculation and reports of agreements have been retracted.]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: 2) by n1 on Sunday June 11 2017, @09:53PM
As i said in my editor's note... There will be a proper UK election story soon, there has been a lot of coverage in the online editorial form, but very little in the way of actual confirmed details of the results... What was confirmed, the 'confidence and supply deal' with the DUP was retracted. The DUP has demonstrated they currently have the leverage... They are a small fraction of the vote and a local party, relative to national government... But they have the power to make or break the Tory government... They may remember what happened to the LibDems, when they entered a deal with the Tories in 2010. They did what they were told for the most part, and lost a lot of their voter base in 2015. The DUP have very narrow interests as a political movement and nothing to lose, the PM and conservative party is in a very different situation. Even the right leaning media in the UK have published many op-eds saying May should stand down, credibility damaged... so much for strong and stable.
We know how many people voted for who, but due to a lack of majority it's increased an already politically strained situation. As with the election campaign itself, and public positions on brexit policy... The current government, lead by PM May has decided to just not talk about it and just sticking to 'we'll do the right thing for the country' type rhetoric without giving any specifics.
There will probably be some announcements on Monday, or not.