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On 11 December 2018, one day after UK prime minister Theresa May announced the postponement of a critical vote in Parliament on the Brexit deal she negotiated with the European Union, a report surfaced on the Internet saying she was also canceling the next general election. According to the website News Thump, May decided to cancel the election because she can't win it: The justification was similar to the one she gave for delaying the Brexit vote: in the case of the latter, the agreement faced strong opposition in Parliament and appeared headed for certain defeat. May said she intended to resume negotiations with the EU to land a better deal. However, unlike the postponed Brexit vote, the claimed cancellation of the next UK general election was fiction, not fact. The prime minister made no such announcement. The source of the claim, News Thump, calls itself a satirical and spoof news website based in the United Kingdom. A disclaimer on the site reads: News Thump has also published stories reporting that an emotional Elon Musk begged friends to Stop me before I tweet again, and that a cloud of smoke seen billowing from Trump Tower in early 2018 was the president's pants going up in flames.
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