I see that that your friend and mine, Julia Gillard aka Julliar, Prime Minister of Australia, has received an invitation to the Royal Wedding.
Even better, Gormless Gordon Brown and Phoney Tony Blair, aka Bliar, have not! 🙂
Of course, given her Republican tendencies, I am sure the Welsh Windbag Mark Two will not attend, on a matter of principle!
Boadicea's Chariot 
Seeing as how she’s a bit of a liar, I doubt if the Republican thing will last long, most likely only as long as she can get something out of it, then she’ll probably back stab everybody in the same way she did the lot of us with the carbon tax.
She will go to the wedding, it’s worth 3 million votes to her.
Donald: I, too, am sure she will go there as well. She is up with Gordon Brown in acting for political advantage rather than any principles.
Of course Julliar will go – there are very few Republicans who will, when the invitation drops on the door-mat, actually refuse…
OK Cuprum, I believe that both you and Bearsy probably would – but he’d have to make sure I could go without him if he refused!
As to Blair and Brown – magical! I believe Obama has also been left off the list…
“President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle have not been invited to Prince William and Kate Middleton’s royal wedding.
The Queen personally invited 40 heads of state, who received the gold-embossed invitations over the weekend to the April 29 wedding of the future king.
The Obamas, however, were not among them.”
Must be one of them cheapo weddings 🙂
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1358965/Obamas-invited-Prince-William-Kate-Middletons-Royal-wedding.html
Boadicea: yes, Obama has been left off the list. It’s probably a good idea as he never seems to fail trying to make it about himself. (The Berlin Wall: he didn’t go himself, but gave a televised speech talking about how he was as important is just one example) As for Juliar die Lügnerin, well, republicanism is skin deep when a chance to be dazzled by glitter and gold is given, isn’t it?
A choice between republican principles and a new outfit? No choice at all.
Christopher – I have this theory that politicians take whichever public stance that will bring them the most POWER, as long as it applies only to the seething masses and not to them personally, a bit like the private car lanes in Moscow for Soviet government Zlins.
OZ
Meu Lobo: there is a saying, American I believe, which seems quite fitting. “When God wanted to create the perfect brainless invertebrate he created the jelly fish for practice. Then he created the politician and perfection was reached”.
Amen, Christopher. 😀
OZ
The invitations to the heads of state were all monarchs, the only heads of state who were not monarchs were those of Commonwealth countries surely?
Why should Obama be asked? he is neither.
This is not a State occasion, William is not heir to the throne, so it is not all diplomatic precedence and protocol as it would be were it so.
I don’t know what planet some of you are on that you do not know and understand this.
As such, no one has been slighted or overlooked.
CO: I can’t help but thinking that the fact that Obama never misses a chance to aggrandise himself might have played a role in this as well.
Blair and Brown have not been invited because they they are not members of the Order of the Garter, but Major and Thatcher are. The fact that neither was created a Knight of the Garter speaks volumes in itself to my mind.
Boadicea – you are quite right, I would be delighted to decline. As I was delighted to return my medal with a thank you note inside.
This is what makes my blood boil – even if she is a polititian, if she is a republican how can she possibly even consider going? So many two faced people who bow down to those that society tells them are their betters. They’re not, they still crap in the morning like you an I. Grrrr.
By the by – CO is absolutely right, what’s the fuss about Obama? Plus, does anyone actually believe that the royals have any say in who gets invited polititian wise? Of course not, it’s the Cabinet office….and we have a Con-Dem government so ex Labour PMs wouldn’t be invited would they?
Is the down under PM going because Liz thinks she’s an ok person or to represent Australia, I would guess at the latter, bit like saluting an officer you know to be a tit, you are not saluting the man but the Queen’s commission.