“Before the VAT increase, we’d have gone on around five holidays a year, including several long-haul trips,” he says. “In previous years, we’ve been to the US a few times and stayed in New York and travelled around, visiting the Hamptons, but now it’s mostly Europe and maybe one long-haul trip a year instead.”
Moy estimates they have cut their holiday spend from around £40,000 per year to £20,000.
it’s tough out here
I do wonder why these articles get made.
Is it an attempt at sympathy? The rich are just so out of touch that 4 holidays a year is seen as a sacrifice equal to someone living paycheck to paycheck?
Is it a kind of humblebrag or rage bait, a kind of “fuck the poor” thing, where they are knowingly doing this, in order to show off how much wealth they still have?
Or is it a sort of “Leopards ate my face” thing or similar? Where this is the closest thing to “consequences” they’ve ever faced in their life and they’re freaking out about it? They’re upset that the government that was supposed to just be a money funnel directly into their pockets wasn’t?