The Queen's Blairite Coup Against Prime Minister Brown

June 8, 2009 (LPAC)—Conservative Party blogger "Colonel Smedley" wrote June 2 that Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Gordon Brown are hostile to each other, that President Obama is very close to former Prime Minister Blair, and that the Queen, Blair, and Obama are working against Brown behind the sinking Prime Minister's back.

Smedley called on Her Majesty to dismiss Brown from office as "a disgrace."

Conservative writer Smedley's report amplifies that of the June 7 Sunday Telegraph, which is reported below.

Smedley reported that it was Brown, not French President Sarkozy, who decided that the Queen should not go to France for the anniversary commemoration of the World War II Normandy invasion, and that Brown decided that the French would issue replies to the British Press on the affair.

He also wrote that Brown "will also be wanting to irritate the Queen. Ever the spiteful man, it is highly likely that the Queen will have been having conversations [with Brown] involving constitutional principles, given the expenses fiasco [Parliamentary scandal] — and Brown will not have liked being warned, as within her rights to do so. He and the Queen have not hit it off... he [has been] loath to confide in her as PMs are obliged to."

According to Colonel Smedley, "Blair and Obama have struck up friendly pally relationships". He reported that "Obama suggests [to Blair] that he might see if he [Obama] can get the Queen invited himself. Obama doesn't want to be stuck for the whole day with Sarkozy and his endless photo opportunities — if there are photo opportunities, Obama wants them to be in his favour, and the Queen will fit the bill for the U.S. press at home. Obama also will not want to spend the whole day talking guff to Brown or through a translator to Sarko. A nice and pleasant conversation with the Queen will suit him fine. So Obama's plan, with Blair's blessing, kicks off."

In its huge front page feature yesterday, which sports a cartoon of Brown tottering on a throne, The London Sunday Telegraph reported a "co-ordinated plot by Cabinet ministers" close to former Prime Minister Tony Blair is working to force current PM Gordon Brown out of office.

The Telegraph said "a group of Blairites ... met secretly for months and tried to co-ordinate last week's [series of] resignations" of Brown's Cabinet ministers.

Hazel Blears resigned June 3, James Purnell June 4, John Hutton June 5, and Caroline Flint also June 5. These four officials were, respectively, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Work and Pensions Secretary, Secretary of State for Defence, and Minister of State for Europe. Each claimed to be doing so on his or her own, but they are known to be close to Tony Blair.