I READ the recent letter about counting the true cost of leaving the EU. Just what is going on here?

We are ten months after the vote and some people are digging up the past.

We are all aware of the history but for some reason we are not referring to the period people should refer to and that is the early 1970s.

York has paid a very high price for our being in the EU.

Where to put the blame is very difficult - government, big money people, unions?

York lost 8,000 to 10,000 jobs, all to the EU.

What I find so very unacceptable is people’s pride in our country.

They have a very hard fight ahead of themselves to rebuild the British way of life. What a challenge.

The way ahead will require less and less people, automation.

Over the last 15 to 20 years the population has increased some 20 per cent.

So the question is, are we a nation of shelf fillers?

My opinion is leave the EU tomorrow and negotiate trade deals after. To argue both together only prolongs the situation.

Mr P Richardson, Haxby, York