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    BBC Breaking News‏Verified account @BBCBreaking 17 Aug 2016

    UK unemployment rate falls by 52,000 to 1.64 million between April and June, official figures showhttp://bbc.in/2aUsaKY 

    1:33 AM - 17 Aug 2016
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    84 replies 329 retweets 346 likes
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      2. Samantha Ritchie #NHSLove‏ @LadyValetta 17 Aug 2016
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        @BBCNews How many forcibly self-employed, zero-hour contracts, needing food banks?

        3 replies 3 retweets 15 likes
      3. Rich Evanson‏ @r1chev0 17 Aug 2016
        Replying to @LadyValetta @BBCBreaking @BBCNews

        With their smart phone, cigarettes, tattoos and pet dogs??

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Samantha Ritchie #NHSLove‏ @LadyValetta 17 Aug 2016
        Replying to @r1chev0 @BBCBreaking @BBCNews

        That's right, leap to a reactionary stereotype! Simply displays your ignorance

        1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
      5. Rich Evanson‏ @r1chev0 17 Aug 2016
        Replying to @LadyValetta @BBCBreaking @BBCNews

        I was just following your fine example #irony

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      6. End of conversation
      1. Rabble Cat‏ @TheGraveside 17 Aug 2016
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        @BBCNews Not real jobs Not real wages #Nevertrustatorypic.twitter.com/9l92W8V6Oz

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      2. Michelle Langan  🦄‏ @Liverpoolshell 17 Aug 2016
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        @BBCNews thanks to zero hour contracts and sanctions they can imply we have less of an issue!

        1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes
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      1. martin dransfield‏ @mdransfield 17 Aug 2016
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        .@BBCBreaking that's not the RATE, it's the NUMBER of unemployed. mathematically illiterate journalists should be part of the number.

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      1. PAUL NEWEY‏ @TOPDOLLARMAN 17 Aug 2016
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        @BBCNews Pointless statistics as usual, we are in a disguised depression.

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      1. Katie Machin-Miles #FBPE‏ @Katemachinmiles 17 Aug 2016
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        @BBCNews between April and June. Brexit happened at the end of June.

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      1. Allan Lunn‏ @Allan_Lunn 17 Aug 2016
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        @BBCNews whilst Labour infight & 6 yrs on still have no policies that add up, @Conservatives get on with running the country

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      1. Vincentèz Dè Biafra‏ @Doublestar96 17 Aug 2016
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        @BBCNews because they are not getting enough #BIAFRA oil to steal...... #FreeBiafra

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      1. MancGoonian‏ @SiCoManc 17 Aug 2016
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        @BBCNews stopping ppls uni credit isnt the same as them finding employment! More bs

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      1. DonalOGrada‏ @dodgie133 17 Aug 2016
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        @BBCNews they are in Spain

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      2. Matt Woor (PuddingHawk)  🇬🇧‏ @mattwoor 17 Aug 2016
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        @BBCNews the Beeb must be furious at this result. They'd already started the drums for a Brexit induced rise in joblessness!!

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      3. Andrew Braid‏ @Andrew_Braid 17 Aug 2016
        Replying to @mattwoor @BBCBreaking @BBCNews

        these figures are pre Brexit.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Matt Woor (PuddingHawk)  🇬🇧‏ @mattwoor 17 Aug 2016
        Replying to @Andrew_Braid @BBCBreaking @BBCNews

        unemployment claims in July were down 8600 - that's post Brexit

        0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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      2. Robert Ramsay‏ @MothTwiceborn 17 Aug 2016
        Replying to @BBCBreaking

        In other news, suicides are up!

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
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