04-27-2011, 08:28 AM
hahaha love the headline...story at link.
Bums like this are invited to the royal wedding as fury erupts over snub to Brown and Blair.
Labour was at loggerheads with St James's Palace last night amid a growing row over a royal wedding day 'snub' to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
Whitehall sources revealed that ministers were not consulted by courtiers over a decision to exclude the two former Labour Prime Ministers from Friday's guest list.
Senior politicians on all sides are surprised at the move because both surviving former Conservative Prime Ministers, Baroness Thatcher and Sir John Major, as well as David Cameron, were invited to see Prince William and Kate Middleton tie the knot.
Former Prime Ministers Gordon Brown and Tony Blair have not been invited to the wedding.
Among the more controversial guests is Kate's black sheep uncle Gary Goldsmith, who was initially ostracized by the family after being exposed as a cocaine user by a tabloid newspaper.
Also invited to Westminster Abbey are footballer David Beckham, pop star Sir Elton John and Madonna's ex-husband, film director Guy Ritchie.
But the absence of Mr Brown and Mr Blair last night caused Labour MPs to accuse the Royal Family of causing 'gratuitous' offence. They said Government officials should have warned of the potential for political controversy.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z1Kj5zm0S3
Bums like this are invited to the royal wedding as fury erupts over snub to Brown and Blair.
Labour was at loggerheads with St James's Palace last night amid a growing row over a royal wedding day 'snub' to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
Whitehall sources revealed that ministers were not consulted by courtiers over a decision to exclude the two former Labour Prime Ministers from Friday's guest list.
Senior politicians on all sides are surprised at the move because both surviving former Conservative Prime Ministers, Baroness Thatcher and Sir John Major, as well as David Cameron, were invited to see Prince William and Kate Middleton tie the knot.
Former Prime Ministers Gordon Brown and Tony Blair have not been invited to the wedding.
Among the more controversial guests is Kate's black sheep uncle Gary Goldsmith, who was initially ostracized by the family after being exposed as a cocaine user by a tabloid newspaper.
Also invited to Westminster Abbey are footballer David Beckham, pop star Sir Elton John and Madonna's ex-husband, film director Guy Ritchie.
But the absence of Mr Brown and Mr Blair last night caused Labour MPs to accuse the Royal Family of causing 'gratuitous' offence. They said Government officials should have warned of the potential for political controversy.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z1Kj5zm0S3