More Evidence of a Gordon Brown/Royal Family Rift?

There have been odd rumours in the past weeks that the MPs expenses scandal is somehow linked to a rift between the Queen and Gordon Brown. First there was her madge having audiences with the Govenor of the Bank of England to chat about his public concerns over the economy, then Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup (Chief of the Defence Staff) on the same day. (Both meetings incedentally, reported at the time by the BBC, but seemingly buried so deep that their search engine can't find them). All this while Gordo was jaunting round the world prior to the G20 summit. Then Gordo fired a salvo back by releasing plans for constitutional reform. The rumour was her madge allegedly brought the big guns to bear with the expenses scandal, mainly because of the presence of military and establishment in the shadows.

Now we have this. Gordon Brown will be attending the D-Day anniversary as our sole representative. Neither her Majesty nor Prince Phillips will be in attendence, despite them being amongst those that lived through and participated in the defence of Britain.

I await the retort of the Royal 15 inchers with anticipation.

UPDATE:

Here's the timeline, read of this what you will:

24/03/09 PM leaves on G20-saving journey.

24/03/09 Mervyn King publicly releases concerns over economy & public spending

24/03/09 Queen meets Mervyn King and Jock Stirrup

25/03/09 Gordon Brown denies split with Bank of England.

26/03/09 Tony McNulty expenses made public. (probably the leak of expenses sample info during negotiations before they were eventually given exclusively to the Telegraph).

27/03/09 Gordon Brown releases details of constitutional reform

MPs at risk of suicide

It's been widely reported for the past few weeks that MPs are so worried about the expenses scandal, that they are contemplating suicide.

Good.

Fill your boots guys and girls. I have no sympathy with someone feeling sorry for themselves just because the flow of pounds they had been pocketing on the Westminster gravy train has trickled to a halt. How dare you try and make me feel guilty, when the guilt is all yours.

David Cameron: Yes he has.

Ok, thats enough Dave, you've gone past the point of credibility, you're now into incredulity and pushing the boundaries of, well, that point in politics where you go past incredulity and enter the world of rampant opportunism.

I blogged yesterday that his plans for more public accountability and interaction regarding Conservative candidates should be taken with a healthy dose of scepticism. Seems I'm right, because some of the proposals he's making wouldn't be countenanced in a million years.

I'd like to be proven wrong, but for three days now Cameron has each day tried to outdo the previous day's proposals, in order to grab headlines and put himself in the news. I don't for one minute envisage those proposals would be honoured if the Conservatives got in power.

When Cameron first took the Conservative leadership, I thought he looked like a clone of Tony Blair, with a hint of blue. Well, from what I can see, it he's an almost perfect replica, now using the Blairite "aspirational" formula to grab headlines.

Up until now I've been a floating voter. Up until now, the Conservatives were looking likely to get my vote. Right now, it looks highly unlikely that I will put a cross in their box. I want a clean sweep of Parliament, I don't want Blair MkII.

As for the Lib-Dems, it seems that they are using a slightly poorer Blair clone in the form of Nick Clegg, so they're going to miss out on my vote too.

So much for political diversity.