Little is known about what the two men discussed. The old Thai establishment represented by the civil service, the army, the judiciary and the monarchy despises them both. For Mr Thaksin and the heir-apparent personify the end of the old tutelary democracy and the beginning of Thailand’s political future: a European-style constitutional monarchy with the king as titular head of state. With it will come an end to the kingdom’s Byzantine court culture, which reveres rank and rewards status, and devalues electoral democracy. - See more at: http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2014/05/future-thailands-elite#sthash.SPjKAe0k.dpuf