Vicky Spratt
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They want to know what wholesale reform of our systems look like.
It's really interesting that it didn't come up in the polling.
We're racing towards this iceberg, Rory, with the jobs market, as you've correctly identified.
I was in a job centre in Birmingham on Thursday shadowing the youth unemployment team.
And what I saw was young people who desperately, desperately wanna work.
They are looking for jobs.
They wanna work in hospitality.
They wanna work in engineering and they're applying and they're not hearing back.
And then at the other end of the scale, we've heard from graduates who are maybe working in a temporary job
They won't be coming up in those unemployment statistics.
They won't be showing up in our job centers.
But the jobs that they're looking for in professional sectors are just not there.
And what happens now and how our welfare system copes with it
I think is a huge unknown.
And that's really troubling.
And that is one thing that the reader and listener responses really flagged.
I'm worried about AI.
Nobody's talking about it.
I can't get a job.
Nobody knows how to get me a job.