“Guardiamo £ 345k, ma impennare le tasse scolastiche private significano che non possiamo andare in cinque vacanze”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/291a4f22cc238ed5
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“Guardiamo £ 345k, ma impennare le tasse scolastiche private significano che non possiamo andare in cinque vacanze”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/291a4f22cc238ed5
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41 commenti
I was fully expecting this to be an editorialised title
I genuinely can’t believe this wasn’t published by The Onion.
Are the Telegraph just trying to parody themselves here
I know the feeling, my diamond shoes are too tight, what’s the world coming to.
Aww diddums, meanwhile there’s people with actual problems and struggles.
Also why is the Gardener only getting paid £230 a year for monthly work?
While in no way these people are struggling, it is worth noting that paid employment, no matter how high the salary, is just not enough anymore to live a rich lifestyle. Work hard and you will succeed is not true.
Saying, shut up and be grateful, is pointless because change will only happen when the educated high earner class start slowly seeing their usual lifestyles stripped down.
So much to choose from, but this really caught my attention.
The gardener used to come twice a month, but then he increased his costs from £230 a year to £245 a year. We only have him come once every other month now.”
Look past the ridiculous headline and at the pure economic implications here, this essentially means they’re still sending their kids to private school, paying the VAT and spending more of their money in the country as a result of less holidays.
That’s a good thing.
Oh the pain of having to live with only 4 holidays a year! How do they do it?
Ian Fraser (author and journalist) on Bluesky did a bit of digging. The photos are stockphotos from 2012/14 and he couldn’t find any trace of Al and Alexandra Moy outside of this article. The Telegraph may be protecting identities but they haven’t said so in the article and imply they’re real people. It has the definite whiff of BS to it.
‘Tarquin, our constant whining about school fees isn’t breaking through. This time we really need an article people will connect with’
‘Say no more, fam’
If you click this, read the article, scroll past the ads, and think “they’re so stupid!” then I regret to inform you that you’re more stupid for supporting their business plan of printing stupid shit for ad revenue
Picture of the Asian family along with the headline. The Telegraph know exactly what they’re by highlighting this guy’s story.
Prepare the nano-violins
Typical out of touch Telegraph bollocks
Edit, actually, it seems like there’s evidence that this is literally fiction and the family don’t exist!
This party political advert wasn’t funded by the Labour Party. But probably should have been.
Private school is so expensive! Is it really worth it?? Or is this just more elitist Etonian stuff?
This is one of those times when the saying “Rich People Problems” is relevant.
Coincidentally, that’s the title of one of the books in the Crazy Rich Asian’s trilogy, where the cast is also Singaporean, like the couple in this story.
Fuck my life, they have to make do with Sainsbury’s. The sacrifices….
Can these people not hear what they are saying?
Maybe go on holiday in the UK or is it not good enough? Can’t stand these self indulgent, ignorant types who live in London and yet only view Europe or America as worthwhile visiting. It’s like the rest of the country isn’t worthy enough. Singapore was a shithole 70 years ago, my late grandfather was stationed there in the 50’s.
I get what the Telegraph is trying to achieve with its approach, I just find it increasingly hard to understand who is actually reading it.
It is so transparently mental.
I have a funny feeling Al, Alexandra, Ali, Harry and Barry might be made up. For what reason I can’t fathom out. It’s a very strange article
>“Before we would just go to Waitrose and M&S, but now we go to Sainsbury’s too”
How horrible.. Those poor things 🙁
>Before we would just go to Waitrose and M&S, but now we go to Sainsbury’s too
Good Lord they really shouldn’t have participated in this article. Makes them sound so out of touch!
Hark at you heartless plebians! Papa says that shan’t have a new Bentley when I’m off to read (or as you oiks call out ‘study’) PPE at Oxford. The lads at the Bullingdon will be snickering at the Jaguar I shall have to make do with until Uncle Nigel finally gets into office. He’s a real brick who’s already offered me a go at the Cabinet.
It can’t be real! Nobody has a 2 year old called Barry, they’re all middle-aged from the moment they’re born.
Not sure when The Telegraph became such a joke but I first thought about it when they tried to defend, at an IPSO meeting, an article by Boris Johnson that contained factual errors as the writer was ‘could not reasonable be read as serious’.
Oh and that photo is so obviously stock.
When the stuff about putting the tax onto school fees I started wondering
a lot of people were moaning that his would make private school unaffordable and such an increase was too much
so I checked and I found a few schools where I could find the fees for the last few years
In all cases where I could find the information the increases over the last few years – as imposed by the school for normal reasons – was more than the tax rise would force
a few weeks later I went back and tried to find the figures again for a thread on another forum
I could not longer find them
They need to get in touch with Lee Anderson, he’s got some great money saving advice.
Cry me a river, high earners feeling hard done by because they afford a good comfortable lifestyle and then have to reign it in down to a good comfortable lifestyle but with less holidays need a reality check. I think it’s the audacity to actually agree to have a article done about them as if they’re victims that gets me the most. You have money, great, keep it to yourself.
Meanwhile, some families are living on less than 30k a year. Or not even that.
They are originally from Singapore, both work in finance and moved from New York to London after living there for 20 years.
They really aren’t the A-typical family putting their children through private education in the U.K.
The entire article is pure click/rage bait, everything from the openness about cutting annual holiday spend from circa £40k to £20k through to cutting back on the gardener because they had to increase their costs (to live) by a marginal amount is designed to engender engagement.
It’s gutter journalism.
*edited to add it looks like the photo is a stock photo from 2012 and also that there is no record of the family being employed in finance in the U.K. or anywhere else.
Is this just “made up”? If so, the Telegraph has really outdone itself this time.
Looks like it’s fictional rage bait
https://bsky.app/profile/ianfraser.bsky.social/post/3lpyolfrkpk2a
They will have to cut back and save like very one else. Only one bottle of Dom Pérignon a week now….
> Before we would just go to Waitrose and M&S, but now we go to Sainsbury’s too and always look out for the offers and promotions in each different shop,” he says.
World’s. Smallest. Violin.
All that money and the wife is still banging the tennis coach…what’s the moral of the story here?
Won’t someone think of the…*checks notes*…investment bankers?
We seem to have a real problem with Rage bait in this
country, makes you wonder why they want to make so many outraged?
That read like it should be satire.
And harry and Barry? Really?
If you can’t tell ragebait by now lads then I really don’t know what to say to you
Taxes in the UK are sickening to a point where ordinary, aspirational brits can’t enjoy the products of their labour. Get out while you still can
A clear departure from the Telegraph.
Normally publishing rage bait to wind up right wingers here we have a piece ideal to incite rage and distain from lefties!
The guy getting well remunerated as a expert in finance hasn’t been able to get to the bottom of why a blanket increase in VAT has been blamed by his daughters schools for an increase in the fees they’re charging him of twice the increase at his sons school?
Maybe stop paying people so much for being credulous chumps?