Boris Johnson demanded Conservative MPs take photos of their confidence vote to show they were loyal to him in a secret ballot

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  3. PM Johnson does not need to do that, **because everyone loves the Dear Leader**.

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    In all seriousness; does anyone anyone have a second source for this?

  4. Pathetic control freak terrified people don’t like him. Here’s a clue Pfeffel : no one likes you, we think you are a cunt.

  6. Problem with this is that it is all too believable

    >Dan Bloom @danbloom1 [Jun 6](https://nitter.net/danbloom1/status/1533835839268175875)
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    >A thread on some details…
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    >MPs will have their phones confiscated at the door of wood-panelled Committee Room 10 to ensure they don’t take pictures of their ballot papers.
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    >Last time there was a ban on photos, but phones were allowed, so several MPs flouted the rules.
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    >Chairman Graham Brady said he’ll run a “tight ship” inside the room, banning whips and spies from lurking inside – though what they do outside, he can’t control.
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    >”We are insisting that photographs not be taken,” he added.
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    >One of the room’s two doors will be designated an entrance and the other an exit, and MPs will queue up through the entrance to collect their ballot.
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    >The wording is likely to be simple – that MPs “have confidence in Boris Johnson ” as leader, or “do not have confidence”.
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    >MPs will then move to a shielded booth at the back of the room where they fill in their ballot paper and cast their vote.
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    >Individual MPs’ names will not be recorded on the ballot papers that get counted.
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    >Once the vote closes at 8pm, the officers of the 1922 Committee will count the votes in the same room where they were cast.
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    >Yet some of the rules are still vague and mysterious…
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    >There is no process for what happens if there is a tie. A Conservative source admitted: “That would be really unfortunate. We would cross that bridge when we came to it.

    The phone ban was of course to stop the MPs being pressured by the whips, as was reported on the day.

    If the order came down from Johnson you would have thought they would demanded he leave office that day. But they are a spineless bunch..

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    ^^^edit: ^^^bloody ^^^typos

  7. Boris is a the dictionary definition of a buffoon, but he is smarter than this , If coercion was proven, that could be used to void the confidence vote and force a new one.

  8. probably bollocks considering i’ve not seen the story anywhere else. voters had their mobile phones taken when entering the booth so photos couldn’t be taken.

  9. Please be BS but if it isnt… gotta ask,

    How could you, in good conscience ever vote confidence in a man that would require you to break the secrecy of a secret ballot designed to stop retaliation?

  11. This can’t be true. It’s a secret ballot so if anybody did take a photo, they’ve broken the rule of the vote and made their vote null and void. Maybe a recount is needed?

  12. So if we’re violating the secret ballot anyway why not just make them all public and at least give some accountability to voters?

  15. Very weird wording in this article.

    > Reacting to the pressure placed on them by No 10 Downing Street, MPs had come to the 1922 committee to say they were “under pressure to take photographs of their vote” **according to a member of the government** who spoke on condition of anonymity.

    Emphasis mine.

    Immediately followed by:

    > Coincidentally, before the ballot on Monday, **John Penrose MP** resigned as Boris Johnson’s anti-corruption tsar and stated in a televised interview that he would be voting “no-confidence” in Boris Johnson later that day.

    Emphasis not mine. Did they just out their own source?

  17. I can’t see this being true. Phones weren’t allowed in the voting room, presumably to prevent corrupt shit like this from actually happening.

    Even if it was true, why would an MP squeal to ‘thepavlovictoday’… an actual tory would sell the story to Murdoch and line their own pocket (in typical tory fashion).

  19. Can someone fact check this? I doubt it’s true as any vote that was recorded was invalid and i’ve never heard of this website before

  21. I am not crazy! I know he changed the Ministerial Code! I knew it was compulsory to resign. One after Section B.12! As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just – I just couldn’t prove it. He – he covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the Home Office to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He’s done worse. That bus ad! Are you telling me that a man just happens to lie about a figure like that? No! He orchestrated it! Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson! He defecated through a sunroof! And I saved him! And I shouldn’t have. I took him into my own Parliament! What was I thinking? He’ll never change. He’ll never change! Ever since he was 9, always the same! Couldn’t keep his plans out of grandeur! But not our Boris! Couldn’t be precious Boris! Stealing them blind! And he gets to be a Prime Minister!? What a sick joke! I should’ve stopped him when I had the chance! And you – you have to stop him!

  25. “journalist” with russian name. Have they just stopped pretending to hide their subversion of UK democracy now?

    We know Boris is a cunt but why bother with this rubbish.

  26. ‘According to a source’

    I always wonder about such articles. They could be true. Or they could be someone just saying something that they know will get a nice reaction for them.

  27. ”According to the source”. I love these types of stories claiming to be an ‘Exclusive’, which in this case seems to mean, possibly no truth in this story. The ‘Source’, in question isn’t even mentioned as a Conservative MP or any other MP for that matter.

    Is this how bad the press has become in the UK today that they do not have to substantiate their stories.

  28. Just looked into this News Organisation. It claims to be an independent American Newspaper, but interestingly when you look into the ‘About Us’ section on their Home Page, the only journalist who is mentioned is the founder, a Ms Pavlovic, making me suspect this is simply a one women online paper.

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