THERE is nothing irresponsible about pointing out the perilous direction being taken by this government.

We are on the cusp of triggering the irreversible process of leaving the largest trading bock in the world without one single guarantee of what comes next.

No guarantee that our fantastic local businesses will be able to continue selling their amazing products and services unencumbered by bureaucracy and tariffs.

No guarantee that the £9 million a year EU funding to our local universities will carry on.

No guarantee that Brightonians will be able to travel visa-free to the continent for work or pleasure.

Just as bad, the new life promised to us by gung-ho Brexiters also comes with no guarantees.  

In July David Davis promised that by September 9 Britain would have started a ‘large round of global trade deals’ which would be concluded within two years.

He promised British participation in a free trade area ‘almost twice the size of the EU’.  

If this isn’t the mother of all black-holes that our country is being marched into I don’t know what is.

Thanks to Sir Andrew Bowden's handiwork the chancellor has scrapped plans to balance the books and the pound has plummeted again.

Thanks to the government Sir Andrew supports we have a hospital, a health trust, and an ambulance service all in special measures, so everyone who lives here waits with baited breath for him to tell us when the NHS will get the £350 million a week that his campaign promised because we need it badly. 

Sir Andrew was on the winning side. Rather than spewing bilious statements from behind closed doors he should get out into our communities and as Chair of the Vote Leave Campaign tell us when he will deliver the prosperity, security, and additional freedoms that he promised us.

So far all I detect from him is hot air and the rancid smell of panic as every Brexit benefit he promised us turns to dust.

I know full well it is those who put their trust in him and voted ‘Leave’ who have been let down the most.