Prince Charles letters to be published rules the Supreme Court

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Incredible paranoia. You can keep discussing the differences between the two all you like but the principle of democracy is consistent. You didn't say you didn't like the commission because it's a foreign body or any of the legitimate factors you've just listed. You said it was bad because it was undemocratic. There's the hypocrisy.

Not at all, because when we've discussed the democratic deficit in the European Union I am always asked: well would you support the EU if more powers went to the elected European parliament? To which I always reply that it still would lack democratic legitimacy in that whilst it is elected it lacks a demos so doesn't function as a democracy. A democratic system of government is a little more complicated than slapping elections on something and then saying it is democratic. No demos and there's no democracy.

How do you know what he's wrote since the letters haven't been released yet?

HRH The Prince of Wales is the longest ever serving heir to the British and Commonwealth throne, he will know what lines he can cross and what he cannot. If a monarch or to-be monarch were threatening or demanding ministers change laws on his whim, that would cause a constitutional crisis (even if it is in private) and you would have ministers resigning as a result. It happened under King Edward VIII when the government stated that the King could marry Wallis Simpson - although as the government couldn't abide by such a thing it would have resigned and thus caused a constitutional crisis. Hence King Edward VIII abdicated as a result.

It's a well known fact that the queen has behaved in a politically neutral manner. Don't pretend otherwise.

In public.