to think that Thatcher and Major should not have been invited to the royal wedding....

[magicmummy1]

...if they weren't also going to invite Blair and Brown? Surely it should be all former PMs or none?

Yes, it's their wedding, and of course, there's an argument that they should be able to invite whoever they like. But in my view, if they choose to accept the trappings of royalty, along with the wealth and status that royalty confers, then they need to accept that this is not "just" their wedding, it is a state occasion.

Personally, I don't think they should be allowed to make such blatant political statements, and I'm amazed that this has been allowed to happen! AIBU?

And as for the knights of the Realm excuse arguement, I don't buy it. They have still invited all the Conservative exPM's and none of the Labour ones.

YABU Cherie Blair is anti-royalist so you wouldn't invite Tony because of that and you wouldn't invite Brown because he is possibly the most miserable man in the world.

Love it!

Cherie never hid her loathing for our Royals, why the feck should she get an invite to their party?

Maybe they invited Thatcher so there'd be a woman there more disliked than Camel.

Major, as stated above, was invited because of the legal guardian thing.

It doesn't matter if cherie loathes them, or if they loathe cherie - can't say I'd blame any of them for not liking each other. But whether or not they like each other is beside the point in my view.

Actually, afaik there was no love lost between the Queen and Margaret Thatcher, so the Blairs have an equal right to be there.
I've no idea why Thatcher is still held up to be some sort of icon almost on a par with Churchill. She's just another former PM like all the rest.

Did you invite people who have publically stated their dislike of you to your wedding then?

And to all those who ask if anyone would want Brown at their wedding - well, no! But would you really want Thatcher either?!

Incidentally, why was major appointed as a guardian to the princes when diana died? He wasn't in office then, was he? Seems an odd choice...

YANBU.

I detest Brown and Blair - and can understand why the Royal Family do too. But they should have been invited nonetheless.

Yeah, I sort of love Thatcher, I'd do anything to have her at my wedding. Brown did an awful lot to mess up Britain (and Tony). Cherie is just dire.

Major - was a guardian as has already been said which explains him.

John Major was the princes gaurdian so I would have thoguht it a little odd for them not to invite him?

Thatcher was given a title so I guess she is in favour somehow whereas the other two haven't been flavoured with titles yet have they?

whereas the other two are not in favour and have apparently brought the country to its knees - so hardly the sort you would want to invite

No yertile. But I don't claim to be a public figure, I don't receive an allowance from the public purse, and my wedding day wasn't declared as a national holiday. So, all in all, my wedding was rather a different occasion.

I adore Thatcher too.

I wish she could be there, but unfortunately she is in ill-health these days.

If only Cameron had some of Thatcher's spine!

How can anyone dislike a rather ineffectual person like Gordon Brown, more than Margaret Thatcher?! How short people's memories are!

People actually adore Thatcher?! Wow, there's something I never thought I'd see. She's a vile disgrace of a woman, I didn't think anyone did anything other than tolerate her!

Each to their own I guess, but still [bushock]!

at tidydancer!

If the worst "punishment" Brown and Blair get is not getting invited to the royal wedding then they've got off lightly considering what they've done to the country.

Labour will be 'represented' as Beaker and his 'partner' will be there.

Loving the fact that this whole rant has been based on non-existent political bias rather than the fact that they are invited because of a position that they now hold rather than something that they did in the past, just as it is in the media who are equally happy to let fact get in the way of a good story.

Should we be equally up in arms that Lord Sainsbury will be there but other supermarkets wont be represented?

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Well I have certainly become a lot more royalist over the last 24 hrs - funniest thing I've heard in years

That said, my real beef is with Blair, in my view lying about the reasons for war (a war which both William and Harry lost colleagues in) is about the worst thing a PM could ever do so he's bloody lucky not to be locked up, never mind not getting an invite to the wedding. Brown is different and I do wonder if he hasn't been invited so they could use the order of the garter thing as cover, when really it's just 'cos Blair's a fucker.

*Vicky2011" "he's bloody lucky not to be locked up"

We will see.

Couldn't care less, I really couldnt. As seeing as the wedding itself is being paid for by the families then they can invite who they want. You can't have it all ways.

Personally I think getting an invitation is the short straw, I'd rather pierce my eyeballs than attend a dull as shite do like that.

The argument that 'It's their wedding so they can invite who they like' is a total red herring. There are plenty of people going who they've never even met. Invites were largely political.