Abuse of power: our former rulers did it best

DECLAN Doyle’s obsequious attitude to the proposed visit to this country of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth is hard to defend (Letters, June 28).

To depict the public representatives elected by the citizens of this democratic republic as “a loathsome political class” – as Mr Doyle does – is to indulge in hyperbole.

As in all democracies our politicians, being human, have shown themselves to be venal and corruptible.