TIM Siret’s intemperate response (ViewPoints, October 22) to my letter of October 18 deserves some comments.

My point was: since Mr Siret repeatedly lambasts our Coalition Government, while finding only positive things to say about various left-wing regimes abroad, would it not make sense (should he have the means) for him to attempt to seek a new life under one of them – not necessarily Venezuela?

That way he could settle down under a system with an ideology more congenial to his own and he wouldn’t have to chafe under Cameron’s yoke anymore. Preferable, surely, to constant complaining.

Mr Siret first attacks what he calls my “argument” with insulting, overblown epithets, then in his next paragraph accuses me of having no argument!

I wish he would make up his mind. His own argument (if indeed he has one) is greatly diminished by his choice of vocabulary. Mr Siret is the one who will “fall back on insult and personal slurs”.

For the record, Mr Siret should kindly note that I am “servile” to no one – least of all the Coalition Government. True, the Coalition is making some effort to disentangle the financial knot left behind by Blair and co.

At the same time, it seems to be widening the splits and schisms within society. For all his comments, I am as aware of this as Mr Siret.

NICHOLAS WILSON, Summerhill Road, Summertown, Oxford