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"Sean Thomas
My 20-year-old daughter can’t find a job, and the reason is infuriating
Entry-level work used to be done by our children – now it seems to be given to immigrants"

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/19/my-20-year-old-daughter-cant-find-a-job-reason-infuriating/

By coincidence, my calendar's inspirational thought for the day is from PB's Leon. But he might be wrong about his daughter. A lot of entry level work in retail disappeared when high streets were boarded up, in catering when pubs and restaurants closed, and a lot of white collar entry level work has been given to AI (or at least, that's the excuse the PHBs give for not hiring). Tories will add that Labour's job taxes don't help by destroying negative differentials but if the jobs aren't there in the first place...

Assistant Manager at Dominos gets you a skilled worker visa. Other factors may be greater, but this one is real too.

TfL are getting station attendants on work visas because they claim they can't recruit here. I mean, come on.

I assume that this costs the employers time and money to do the paperwork and pay the fees to bring in someone on a visa, so why would they do that if there were available residents looking for work?

There seems to be a missing piece of information in the story.

...He evokes an almost visceral hatred in many. I don't know why he does but it is futile to deny it.

* He isn't left-wing. He confuses "left-wing" with "being nice" and since he believes himself to be nice, then everything he does must be left-wing. It doesn't work like that.
* He gives speeches and states positions, then changes his mind to the exact opposite, and refuses to acknowledge even internally that he has done so. In an age of receipts this is ridiculous.
* He speaks of abstracts like values, but without translating them to concrete policy it just makes him look stupid.
* He cannot make decisions without being told what to do by somebody else. Genuinely.
* As a grown adult he should have recognised these problems and either resigned or worked on overcoming them. He has made some efforts to overcome his lack of contact with MPs but it's too little too late.

He would have made a good Attorney-General. With guidance he may have made a competent Foreign Secretary. But he simply does not have the capacity nor character for the PM job and he needs to leave it.

"Sean Thomas
My 20-year-old daughter can’t find a job, and the reason is infuriating
Entry-level work used to be done by our children – now it seems to be given to immigrants"

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/19/my-20-year-old-daughter-cant-find-a-job-reason-infuriating/

By coincidence, my calendar's inspirational thought for the day is from PB's Leon. But he might be wrong about his daughter. A lot of entry level work in retail disappeared when high streets were boarded up, in catering when pubs and restaurants closed, and a lot of white collar entry level work has been given to AI (or at least, that's the excuse the PHBs give for not hiring). Tories will add that Labour's job taxes don't help by destroying negative differentials but if the jobs aren't there in the first place...

Assistant Manager at Dominos gets you a skilled worker visa. Other factors may be greater, but this one is real too.

TfL are getting station attendants on work visas because they claim they can't recruit here. I mean, come on.

If the Assistant Manager at Dominos, or TfL Station Attendant is on £41,700 or above then why should they not get a visa?

Well, because a) someone disreputable might hire someone from overseas on £41,700 and then make them pay a proportion of their wages back to the employer in cash, with the threat of withdrawing the role and the visa hanging over their head b) we should only import foreign workers in roles for which we demonstrably lack the skills and cannot train a suitable candidate, and both the roles you indicate, regardless of the nominal salary, do not fall into that category. After all, someone here moving into an assistant manager role creates an entry level role at Dominos for a young person or someone struggling on a zero-hours contract; bringing someone in does not.

For those who don’t know - the sale of visas is a vast trade.

The one with care home staff was shut down after nearly no one recruited ended up working in care homes.

The jobs often don’t exist or pay far less than any minimum pay number.

There is little enforcement - companies found to be selling visas are barred. New ones are bought on line immediately.

A measure to bar companies that shared directors with other companies that had already been bared was blocked as “too harsh”

A visa like this can go for north of £15k

"Sean Thomas
My 20-year-old daughter can’t find a job, and the reason is infuriating
Entry-level work used to be done by our children – now it seems to be given to immigrants"

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/19/my-20-year-old-daughter-cant-find-a-job-reason-infuriating/

By coincidence, my calendar's inspirational thought for the day is from PB's Leon. But he might be wrong about his daughter. A lot of entry level work in retail disappeared when high streets were boarded up, in catering when pubs and restaurants closed, and a lot of white collar entry level work has been given to AI (or at least, that's the excuse the PHBs give for not hiring). Tories will add that Labour's job taxes don't help by destroying negative differentials but if the jobs aren't there in the first place...