SIR - I really must take issue with your editorial “EU exodus will cost us in the long term.”

For starters, the woes of the big-name retailers have absolutely nothing to do with the chill wind of Brexit. Online shopping and the fixed costs of brick-and-mortar locations are the sole causes of the high street crisis.

As for employers cutting jobs, this has always occurred and, regardless of Brexit, will continue to occur as management looks to streamline business.

Your NHS argument was lamentable and scaremongering as only five per cent of the NHS workforce is from the EU. If any or all of these EU workers were to leave the overall effect would be negligible. As for EU nationals employed in education, the House of Commons publication “Employment of other EU nationals in the UK” gives a figure of four per cent - which somewhat negates your argument that the sector depends on these people.

Likewise construction, catering and agriculture will, post Brexit, simply re-adjust to a changing labour market. In reality no insurmountable problems here either.

To be blunt, your doom-laden editorial was slanted and sloppy. You need to do better!

Joe Woollard, Bogthorn, Keighley