We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays

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Can’t link but a headline post in the Telegraph. The trolling is desperate surely ?

Have these people never heard of crowdfunding.

I can't belive this is real. I'm reeling from three bags of the cheapest food from Lidl for £55.

Tbf if it's real anyone is mad going to press about anything now. Looking on FB they are sensationalised even the most banal news also giving sensational titles for clicks that I'm surprised aren't illegal if there will be a court case.

Like the murder Cruise headline. It was murder before 24 hours had passed. Forget the court process.

I'm the first to agree that 100k doesn't go that far with high housing & childcare costs but having to cut your holiday budget to 20k isn't a huge sacrifice 😆

I'm most shocked by the babies name, Barry!

A neighbour's son charges only £10 for gardening, but he's collecting benefits.

No, I'm not benefit bashing - the chap is an alcoholic who hasn't held down a taxed job for years - and no, I don't use him. I've had hints and outright statements that I should get him to work on my (messy) garden, but I don't use him for various reasons.

Short for Bartholomew, perchance? (Perhaps they didn't like 'Barty'?)

The image is a stock photo…

I wouldn't say it's only people who are running the country, given the incessant complaining on social media that holidays are so expensive by people who feel they "deserve" it. Surely they're not all MPs etc.

Barry's not in the photo- is he with the part time nanny?

If they were doing what I would consider to be an actually societally useful job then I might, just might slightly agree with you.

But I don't believe they are. And therefore the main problem here, if you ask me, isn't that they are earning quite a lot of money, it's the type of jobs that are paying this kind of money.

I'm fed up of being told I should be grateful to people like this for deigning to grace us with their presence and to pay a bit of tax while enjoying everything that is still actually good about this country.

Better to die standing than to live on your knees.

That’s because it’s a stock photo… I wonder why…

Cost of living does discriminate, it can affect anyone.

Its truly humbling but hopefully they will get through it.

You both are rich, talented and beautiful

err, how do you know what they look like?

Written by AI, surely?

I don’t think it is worth spending 500k per child on school fees when there are free state places. Singaporeans will soon adapt to the UK way which is a buy the right house in the right catchment and stop working so hard.

Absolutely.

Rishi certainly believed that he grew up deprived (of Sky TV) as he was the son of a doctor and a pharmacist.

After all, his parents seemed penniless compared to his billionaire PILs. Similarly, the parents of his friends and classmates were a lot wealthier.

They could get a lodger.

And give up avocado toast and lattes.

Just the FOUR holidays a year?!!!

Will someone not think of poor Tarquin & Tilly!

They may be forced to go to.....gulp.....Center Parcs!!

What do you think the journalist typed into ChatGPT to create this story?

Shame on the Telegraph for publishing articles like this to divide the country on a very sensitive topic like imposing VAT on education.

They need to hang their heads in shame as they sound so desperate to paint all privately educated families as reckless, hedonistic and narcissistic millionaires when we all know they are not.

Shame on you Telegraph! instead, you could have used your platform to put pressure on the government to improve SEND provision in schools that are struggling financially, increase school budgets to help employ more LDAs to support our kids, improve teacher retention and teacher workload etc… Schools can’t even afford to buy glue sticks and teachers are having to buy them from their own pocket money- that is what is outrageous !!! Families having to do fundraisers for the school is outrageous!

Telegraph is getting desperate. I wonder why?

AND that stock image.., who do they think they can fool? Which makes me think the whole thing is probably made up. People with £350k income have no interest in talking to the papers to sell their story for £50 🤣😆 try harder Telegraph.

Shame on the Telegraph for publishing articles like this to divide the country on a very sensitive topic like imposing VAT on education.

It's what they do. remember the scorpion and the frog.

Gosh the Torygraph really is outdoing itself. Just read the article about San Francisco “ waking up from its left wing policies induced nightmare “. The Fentanyl crisis clearly had nothing to do with capitalism then 🤔.

RedBird Capital Partners announced on Friday that it has purchased Telegraph Media Group for £500 million (nearly $675 million).

Telegraph comments sections is even funnier than MN at times.

https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/asian-family-relaxing-by-gate-on-walk-in-countryside-gm494896709-41176704

They have clearly taken mumsnets' advice and created a 'side hustle' of selling family photos for extra cash to be used as stock images. Needs must and all that.