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Just to complete that quote of AJP Taylor's (whom Jonathan Lewis "has never heard of"): "The people judge rightly on great issues. They cannot be expected to determine tactics". That seems to answer Richard Fearnley's complaint that the people weren't asked in the referendum what kind of exit they wanted. How could they be? And if they had been, how could they possibly have given any intelligible answer? They were asked whether they wanted this country to continue as members of the European Union. No one at that time, on either side of the debate, ever suggested that the question wasn't clear, and the electorate gave a clear reply. Mr Lewis deploys the usual EU-loyalist trick of pretending to assume that the "whopping 48 per cent" represented a solid bloc of informed and dedicated loyalist opinion, whereas the piffling 52 per cent were confused, ignorant and divided amongst themselves. The reverse is the truth. And if anyone asks for the evidence for that statement, let us ask him first of all to prove a single one of the loyalists' own wild and irresponsible assertions.