..........Having flown many types for different Airlines no one will convince me that a modern day jet is more difficult to fly than a TP.
I totally agree. An Airbus A320 is much easier to operate than a Dash 8, and I have many hours on both.
If I owned a jet airline, I would only recruit turboprop pilots, because they have experience of flying in all the weather below FL250, and of flying simpler aircraft with less automatics, so their basic flying skills have to be of a high standard. This is cruicial when it all goes wrong in a big jet - you need experience of that more basic flying and first principles.