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

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Kugelblitz · 25/05/2025 14:24

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

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OrangeCrushes · 03/06/2025 10:16

uuuuu · 25/05/2025 16:02

Well, I think we need to think a bit more before just saying "rich cunts, womp womp".

Those two are paying way over £100k in tax every year between them. In under a decade, they'll contribute a million quid to HMRC. When you consider how much money people who aren't net contributors receive from the state, I think that the likes of that family are extremely valuable to this country.

They are very internationally mobile and if I were them, I'd be out of this country right away. There are plenty of countries that they could go to and pay shit all tax. And go on more than five holidays and not get sneered at - as the people on this thread are doing. That family are what we should all aspire to be like.

And if the Moy family are reading - look people, your kids are young and adaptable. You both are rich, talented and beautiful. You don't need to give any shits about disruption of education at this stage - just hot foot it to a country that doesn't treat you as a cash cow and actually values the fact that you are hardworking, high earning and model citizens.

Which country would that be? 😂😂😂

fussychica · 18/06/2025 16:17

Just to let you all know that The DT has published a very short apology just entitled An Apology (can't link) regarding this article and the inaccuracies therein. However, they still insist it was not AI generated but they cannot verify the information??????
They do admit that the photos used were stock photos and not those of the family, as indicated in the article. No commenting available regarding the apology.
Bonkers!

SpottedDonkey · 18/06/2025 17:50

This is the apology :

“An apology
On May 25 we published an online article “We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays” which included stock photographs and not, as the article indicated, images of the family referred to in the article. In addition, we have not been able to verify the details published.
There has been public speculation the story was created using Artificial Intelligence; this is not the case. We apologise to our readers for these errors which should not have occurred.”

Presumably, “we have not been able to verify the details published” means it was entirely made-up BS about people who don’t exist. Very odd indeed.

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SwanOfThoseThings · 18/06/2025 19:22

How do people get away with it? There must be so many talented journalists who'd jump at the chance to publish in The Telegraph, yet they print a load of bollocks some froth-troll has made up.

FreezeDriedStrawberries · 19/06/2025 10:17

How can they get away with In addition, we have not been able to verify the details published?
I was always taught "check your sources" and then "when you think you've checked your sources, check them again" when I studied journalism.
This was back in the day before social media was a thing. Journalism has fallen so far, it's nothing like what I recognise from before.
It's just laziness, click bait and manufactured rage nowadays. Which is kind of concerning.

FriNightBlues · 19/06/2025 13:34

Hasn’t the Telegraph just admitted that their journalism standards are woefully lacking?

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