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**Image context (brief):** A screenshot of a Facebook post by “Roger Broughton” sharing an image with a headline and a bar chart, plus a comment by “Pia Taylor.”

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**Image context (brief):** A screenshot of a Facebook post by “Roger Broughton” sharing an image with a headline and a bar chart, plus a comment by “Pia Taylor.” **Transcription (all visible text):** Roger Broughton All-star contributor · 14h · Well does this really surprise any one. We are being bled dry by immigration. NEWS: It has been revealed that White people are the only ethnic group that are net contributors to the UK economy A multi-cultural Britain actually costs us money [ @WhitePapersPol ] Net Fiscal Contribution by Ethnic Group - UK 2023/2024 Asian Black Mixed Other White £ 2000 £ 0 £ -2000 £ -4000 £ -6000 £ -4,135 £ -4,584 £ -5,545 £ -5,360 £ +1,444 W Pia Taylor 12 February at 21:09 · If this poll is based on evidence it is catastrophic for the country 🤣‼ 1395794387260&set=gm.1219670846442985&idovanity=971995864543819&__cft__[0]=AZYgSESAljwoawk5TFmoG2K57G1uvAbZ7qp1ns4K
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Trust Score

Low trust

Confidence: Medium

Standard
Emotional Tone Low
How emotionally charged the language is (low is neutral)
Reading Level Academic
Suitable for age 21+ readers (grade 16)
Article Length Short
124 words
Caps & Emphasis Moderate
2.4% of words are capitalised (high can indicate sensationalism)

Executive Summary

The image’s headline claim (“White people are the only ethnic group that are net contributors to the UK economy”) is not supported by identified official UK statistics as stated, and the chart’s figures/ordering appear internally inconsistent with a widely-circulated reinterpretation of ONS ‘Effects of taxes and benefits’ data. The closest official source located (ONS ‘Effects of taxes and benefits on UK household income: financial year ending 2024’, released 25 Sep 2025) does not present a simple, authoritative ‘net fiscal contribution by ethnic group’ league table for 2023/24 in the bulletin text, and the method implied by the graphic is not documented in the post. Without a transparent dataset link, methodology, and replication, the specific numeric claims in the chart cannot be confirmed from primary sources and are therefore Unverified; the broader ‘revealed’ framing is also misleading given what the official publication actually covers.

Factual Verification

Verified Claims

  • ONS publishes the statistical bulletin ‘Effects of taxes and benefits on UK household income: financial year ending 2024’ with release date 25 September 2025.

Unverified Claims

  • “It has been revealed that White people are the only ethnic group that are net contributors to the UK economy.”
  • “A multi-cultural Britain actually costs us money.”
  • The bar-chart values shown for ‘Net Fiscal Contribution by Ethnic Group – UK 2023/2024’ (Asian −£4,135; Black −£4,584; Mixed −£5,545; Other −£5,360; White +£1,444) are accurate and sourced from official UK statistics.
  • The chart represents an official ‘poll’ or official ‘revelation’ rather than an unofficial transformation/interpretation of published data.

Bias & Presentation

Detected Biases:

  • Out-group blame framing (immigration as ‘bleeding us dry’).
  • Overgeneralisation (treating broad ethnic categories as uniform fiscal actors).
  • Assertion of official ‘revelation’ without providing provenance, methodology, or dataset reference.
  • Potential cherry-picking / metric manipulation risk (a bespoke ‘net fiscal contribution’ measure can be defined multiple ways; no definition given).

Language Patterns

Emotional manipulation: 0.32

Confidence

Level: Medium

High confidence that the post fails basic provenance standards (no source/method), and that the specific ‘only White are net contributors’ headline is not substantiated by an identified official statement in the primary ONS bulletin pages reviewed. Medium (not high) overall because confirming or refuting the exact numeric values would require direct extraction from the ONS FYE 2024 Excel tables and reproducing the calculation; that step could not be completed from the in-page bulletin text alone in this run, so the chart’s numbers are kept Unverified rather than adjudicated false.

Search Journal

Query: "Net Fiscal Contribution by Ethnic Group" UK 2023/2024 £ -4,135

Found broader discussion of migrant fiscal contribution; not a primary source for ethnicity net contribution chart.

Query: "White people are the only ethnic group" net contributors UK economy

Located reposted phrasing matching the image; not a methodological source.

Query: ONS net fiscal contribution by ethnic group UK 2023 2024

ONS FOI page indicates what ONS has/has not produced/supplied re ethnicity-based tax analysis; helpful for assessing ‘revealed’ framing.

Query: ONS "Effects of taxes and benefits" Table 23 ethnicity final income 2023/24

Confirmed existence of the relevant ONS bulletin and dataset landing page for FYE 2024 edition; the specific ‘Table 23’ and derived net-by-ethnicity values were not directly confirmable from the bulletin HTML alone.

Query: Income distribution ethnicity facts and figures latest

Provided context on income distributions by ethnicity; not direct support for ‘net fiscal contribution’ claim.

Query: WhitePapersPol net fiscal contribution by ethnic group 2023/2024

Found third-party treatment and social discussion; indicates the claim may be based on transformations of ONS data and may have sign/orientation issues, but remains non-authoritative.

Article Content

**Image context (brief):** A screenshot of a Facebook post by “Roger Broughton” sharing an image with a headline and a bar chart, plus a comment by “Pia Taylor.”

**Transcription (all visible text):**

Roger Broughton All-star contributor · 14h ·

Well does this really surprise any one. We are being bled dry by immigration.

NEWS: It has been revealed that White people are the only ethnic group that are net contributors to the UK economy

A multi-cultural Britain actually costs us money

[ @WhitePapersPol ]

Net Fiscal Contribution by Ethnic Group - UK 2023/2024 Asian Black Mixed Other White £ 2000 £ 0 £ -2000 £ -4000 £ -6000 £ -4,135 £ -4,584 £ -5,545 £ -5,360 £ +1,444 W

Pia Taylor 12 February at 21:09 ·

If this poll is based on evidence it is catastrophic for the country 🤣‼

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