May Day

Wednesday [December 12, 2018] was quite a day for United Kingdom prime minister Theresa May.

The 62-year-old faced a Confidence—or, a No-Confidence—vote for whether she would continue as leader of the Conservative Party.

The outcome was 200 votes in favor. So, May survived. But, 117 were opposed to her continuation.

(Coverage is provided in the above video, from CBS News, and May speaks past the mark of 26:45.)

While the U.K. has a parliamentary system, numbers wise this is not good. It is not good to have 36 percent of one’s party not supporting its leader. That is an outcome, and one can apply it here in the U.S., that is not good for a political party and its leader. It is not good for the Conservatives in the U.K.

Jamarl Thomas has posted lots of good content from his uploaded videos to YouTube. He live-streams a lot. Thomas has given plenty of his attention to U.K. politics. He is correct—it is fascinating. The members of Parliament debate in the U.K. Here in the U.S, it is a p.r., as with the latest example of president Donald Trump meeting up with the congressional leaders of the Democratic Party, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, to supposedly discuss building a border wall. It was just more fake theatrical nonsense aimed at the True Believers (those loyal to either Team Red or Team Blue). And I will post, just below, video of Thomas covering this vote.

Although I don’t follow U.K. politics enough, I think Theresa May—dealing miserably with Brexit—is a failure. She needs to go. The next prime minister of the United Kingdom needs to be Jeremy Corbyn.