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

[Kugelblitz]

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

they must be clearing at least 190k a year after tax and pensions. 60-70k on private school still leaves 120k. 1m mortgage is probably 5-5.5k which still leaves almost 60k.

why would they care how badly a fictional family comes across?
it doesn't damage their reputation. they already have their target audience. I highly doubt anyone is going to stop reading it because of one story. nobody agrees with every single thing their news source of choice publishes.
otoh outraged clicks and comments from non-usual readers will increase their avenue.
t's a bit sad that an established newspaper has to resort to clickbait but it's a sign of the times.

It's hard to tell if the title is a description or an instruction to an AI engine (checks hands)

Like I said, some of Torygraph is now a quasi chat site with all the comments enabled. That is probably why someone paid up 500 million for this nonsense. The chat bit seems to sell. So you have an article and then a whole lot of venting and discussion.

Poor sods eh? Not as if there are people living on that a year in this country🙄

A Labour MP is sharing this work of fiction to wind people up and encourage them to support the VAT policy. Politics really is in the gutter…

I can’t find the article on the Telegraph website, had it been taken down?

So the articles are more and more outrageous to start some sort of debate. They have thousands and thousands of comments. Farage is on there going on and on about giving pensioners back the WFA in full and lifting the 2 child benefit cap.
Someone has clearly paid shedloads for this because it may well be relevant in the next election and they may well get loads of users on free trials.
It is interesting to watch.

@Boohoo76 - more fool a Labour MP sending customers to the Torygraph where Farage is on the whole time and just waiting for customers to pick up.

@NetZeroZealot It seems to have disappeared from the page. Must have been taken down.

Maybe they are 'taking a look behind the scenes' as they say here on mumsnet.

Wonder if OP will come back

It’s still available via Apple News.

No but there is a gofuckyou

Who is it?

Jonathan Brash, MP for Hartlepool.

Surely this Labour MP has the wits to realise that a US based private equity firm has bought the Telegraph very recently and that there is slightly unhinged free speech warrior in charge of the US right now and perhaps some caution may be prudent?

My mum would have said they were vulgar!

His post has been removed now…

Starmer is worth over 10 million, Radnor worth over 4 million ( I read today!). Reeves, worth a few million.

They are all as bad as each other- cheap food, bills paid, etc etc
Loaded!

It’s interesting that the OP hasn’t come back either…I am sick to the back teeth of this manipulation and I don’t care which political party is doing it…

“Alas, poor me.”

It’s made up, the Telegraph has removed it as has the post sharing it by a Labour MP…more fool you for being manipulated.

Why did the Torygraph run this? Who wrote it? Who got paid for it?
🤯🤯🤯

So the articles are more and more outrageous to start some sort of debate. They have thousands and thousands of comments.

How else are you going to get the clicks?

People are very easily manipulated aren't they.

But then Brexit showed us that.

Grim.