Any other business: The Greeks are coming, and our teenagers won’t be much competition for them

One consequence of the Greek crisis — in which default remains a strong possibility despite the latest bail-out, and either way the Greek economy will be dead for a decade — must surely be a wave of Greek migrants looking for work across the EU. And since they won’t find a welcome between Macedonia and the Channel, that means an influx into Britain, absorbing many of the new jobs that will be on offer when real recovery finally kicks in.

So it’s curious that David Cameron chose this week to sign a letter, with ten other EU leaders, calling for a ‘more integrated open labour market’ to help migrants settle where work is available. That hardly chimes with employment minister Chris Grayling’s appeal to employers to put our own school and college leavers  ‘at the top of their priority list’ ahead of east European job-­seekers who are ‘quite an attractive recruitment option’.