Theresa May Loses Overall Majority In UK Parliament (cnn.com)

Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain has lost her overall majority in Parliament on Thursday, plunging Britain into a period of renewed political chaos less than two weeks before it is scheduled to begin negotiations over withdrawing from the European Union. While May's Conservative party won the most seats, the party didn't win enough to govern without the support of minority parties. CNN reports: It was devastating result for May, who had called the election three years earlier than required by law, convinced by opinion polls that placed her far ahead of opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. The result also plunges Britain into a period of renewed political chaos, with Brexit talks likely to be delayed and May's personal authority shredded. There was already talk in Conservative circles that she might have to resign, less than a year after taking over from David Cameron, who resigned following the Brexit referendum. The pound fell on currency markets in the wake of the results. After the result was declared in her constituency of Maidenhead, May gave a faltering speech. "At this time more than anything else, this country needs a period of stability," she said, suggesting she would attempt to form a government even if her party loses its majority. Corbyn said the early results showed May had lost her mandate and called for her to resign. Further reading: New York Times

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Re: Bye Theresa

[eheldreth]

I get really irritated with 2 dimensional party line thinking and the political compass is a good tool for helping folks understand why. Your falling back in to that old 2 party way of looking at things though. Anarchist are the extreme left wing opposite of authoritarians (the extreme right). Traditionally Libertarians fall some where center left. The reason people often confuse them with right wingers is they are tend to not be progressive. Progressive/Conservative politics fall on a separate spectrum from Right/Left politics. I'm not certain how the UK parties fall but in the US the Democrats are a largely right leaning socially and economically progressive party. The Republicans are a largely right leaning morally progressive and economically conservative (although this is a split in the party) party with strong corporatist tendencies. And yes they are morally progressive regardless of how we view their definition of progress. US Libertarians tend to be left leaning, economic and socially conservatives.

You can think of it like this. An extreme Democrat will want a law mandating that all institutions must provide marriage services to same sex couples. An extreme Republican will want a law forbidding the same. Both right wing solutions intended to use the force of law to farther their respective agendas. An extreme Libertarian will want all laws allowing the government to exercise power over marriage revoked. A left wing solution intended to provide everyone freedom of choice and individual liberty. Obviously reality lies somewhere between the extremes.