Never, ever let the facts get in the way...
Dec 13th 2010, 11:31 am
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Never, ever let the facts get in the way...
...of a good story.
While I have great admiration for this guy's actions, the BBC--yet again--makes my blood boil by making a huge thing about his living on 18k a year, with just a smidgen of a jot of a hint that actually, together with his wife, he'll be living on a combined income of 45k, which when you take into account the combined tax / NI advantages probably equates to a single salary of over 50k.
Just, somehow, Man Lives on 50k pa doesn't sound so good. Wuckfits.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11950843
While I have great admiration for this guy's actions, the BBC--yet again--makes my blood boil by making a huge thing about his living on 18k a year, with just a smidgen of a jot of a hint that actually, together with his wife, he'll be living on a combined income of 45k, which when you take into account the combined tax / NI advantages probably equates to a single salary of over 50k.
Just, somehow, Man Lives on 50k pa doesn't sound so good. Wuckfits.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11950843
