What you can do to help in reforming the monarchy

In the section What You Can Do As An Elector you should have told people what they can do personally as active citizens on the Six Points as well as asking them to contact their MP. Ordinary people can sometimes be more effective than MPs in getting things changed.

On Point 3, for example, if you are a regular user of your local NHS hospital or a ‘Friend’ of the hospital and you hear that a royal is being invited, you should complain to the hospital management and to the regional strategic health authority (in England) or to the local health board (elsewhere in the UK). In your complaint you should object to the hypocrisy of royals who say: ‘What wonderful NHS medical facilities!’ in public and ‘Thank God I’ll never have to use them!’ in private.

On Point 4, if you are a member of a professional body and find that Prince Charles is coming to give one of his ‘lectures’, you should either boycott the event on principle or attend it and object loudly if he oversteps the mark in his comments. There’s no need to be docile or deferential. He’s no better than you. You and your colleagues are the experts, he’s not an expert. For anybody to feel that Charles's views are worthy of special consideration just because he’s a prince is ridiculous! The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings has dropped him as their patron, and other organisations should do the same.

Anyway, these are just my ideas. I really like your website. Your views are like a breath of fresh air!

Active citizens

Reform can't just be left to MPs. In general MPs don't want to change things. They didn't want to have their dodgy expenses system cleaned up until they got a lot of bad publicity in the papers. If active citizens attract publicity by making strong complaints about royal hypocrisy and by objecting loudly to Charles's political interference, MPs will get the message and start pressing for change.