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![FraserNelson Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::117366399.png) Fraser Nelson [@FraserNelson](/creator/twitter/FraserNelson) on x 293.5K followers
Created: 2025-05-21 18:01:39 UTC

The below figures are hard to believe. 

A quarter of Birmingham, UK's second city, now on out-of-work benefits? That’s where unemployment peaked in 1933: and we called that a Great Depression. 

And Manchester: booming, employers desperate for staff. Yet one in five on the dole.

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