Princely platitudes on Parry

[John Skelton]

just because someone does have some historic or hereditary role in society doesn't mean that their views are a) only listened to because of it ....

That is the only reason Prince Charles is listened to, though, isn't it? He isn't brilliant at anything, he isn't beautiful; he has no attribute which would give him public prominence and the opportunity to make his views on various subjects known other than who he is by birth.

it's getting a bit wearing, reading the same sort of knee-jerk, negative bile, seemingly culled from the pages of various leftwing blogs, every time one reads one of his posts.

Don't read them, then?

[Flosshilde]

By which you mean that you do not agree with them. Hardly the same thing........

I absolutely agree that it's not the same thing - but then if I had wanted to say that I didn't agree with them I would done so (as I have in the past). Actually, what I meant was that I don't find his ideas very well argued, which isn't quite the same as not being coherent (but I don't think his delivery is very coherent anyway).

[anotherbob]

His comments on architecture are extremely coherent...

... or to put it another way, you agree with them? It isn't their coherence which is at issue, it is the fact that they are so often brought to our attention.

....and probably would be supported by the majority of intelligent people in the country.

Could you say just how probably, and what would be the majority, 99/1, 51/49, and how intelligent would one need to be for one's views to be considered?

I have no interest in the man's views on anything at all. If it were not for the nation's media fawning over him and his family his utterances would have no more exposure than yours or mine.