Erm
'...while his annual salary was £88,000 and Sturgeon’s £140,000. They had no mortgage on their home in pleasant Glasgow suburb Uddingston and no children or dependents to support, so every single item on the list, except maybe the motorhome and the Jaguar, was comfortably affordable.'
A combined income of £228,000 (more than that when you take into account things like speaking engagements, dividends, etc), no mortgage, no kids, and Dic here feels that a £60k car and a £140,000 motorhome might have been potentially unaffordable?
I'd love to know what the £12k 'unspecified tech purchase from Apple' was, though. That's suspiciously close to the price Apple was asking for a fully specced-out M2 Mac Pro. He certainly seems like the sort of twat that would buy an enterprise-grade workstation for checking his Gmail.
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It's like politics itself is some kind of massive grift...
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Octo I ruin everything., Fri 4 Sep 2026, 10:45,
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Combined income of £228k. Take about half that for tax, so call it about £110k per year spendable. You wouldn't have to save for very long to afford them outright, assuming they weren't bought on finance.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Fri 4 Sep 2026, 11:26,
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Income tax deductions would give a combined take-home of ~£147k
Of course, anyone earning that amount isn’t taking anything like all of that home. They’re maxing-out pension contributions and the like to limit the tax impact.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Fri 4 Sep 2026, 19:48,
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Old fashioned amateurs
The serious money is from other state actors, in obscure crypto currency and property, then owned by their partner/family.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Fri 4 Sep 2026, 17:28,
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