MANY thanks for carrying Derek Smith’s response to my earlier letter.

Sadly, if unsurprisingly, its ‘rambling’ ad-hominem putdowns sidestep the actual point, which was and is: since he (and 37 per cent of the rest of Britain) opted to trigger our current turmoil, it would be ‘decent’ of them to explain what’s going to happen next, under their Taking Back Control agenda.

As none of the higher-profile Brexit proponents from three long weeks ago seems able or willing to follow through, let us invite him to clarify, in fair coherent detail and with timescales, any three definite concrete advantages the

Brexiteers are now certain of achieving.

Amid the hourly twists and turns, in our new model democracy under doubly-unelected ‘Maggie’ May, while the British Isles face likely geopolitical fragmentation (another ‘UKIP’ intention?) and Europeanowned factories already lay off workers in pro-Brexit constituencies, his credible reassurances would be welcome and even soothing.

Meanwhile, I don’t know why he reckons I vote Labour. I may indeed from time to time have supported a ‘wrong side’, but never that one: I am merely a bemused Oxford graduate linguist Remainiac.

IAN MILES Vintner Road, Abingdon