Sorry, I meant that less indignantly than it sounded 🤣🤣

You read one book at a time???? How does that work? I am currently juggling 2 literary fiction, 2 historical factual and a collection of poems.n

If only we had some kind of person whose job it was to investigate the news and present a balanced set of challenging facts. We could call them something like “journalists”. The whole craft could be called a cool name like “journalism”.

But his retirement plans are now in “disarray” and “ruined” cos he’s going to have to find an additional £208.33 per month?

He has £2-4 million in savings/investments but claims he is not “cash-rich” and his house was his only “pension”

Seriously @Telegraph, where do you find these people?🤣🤣🙄

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Paul, in his Aston Martin gilet, 10 years from retirement, living in one of the most expensive houses in one of the best places in Britain, with savings and investments worth £2-4mil (excluding anything he has in tax-free ISAs), who has earned enough in his lifetime to pay “millions in taxes”…

8/

Which means he has savings and investments that GENERATE £125,000 income PER YEAR

Meaning his savings and investments must be in the £2-4 million region (depending on the return)

7/

He says the mansion tax, and 2% dividend and savings tax increases will cost him £5-6K a year.

The mansion tax will cost £2,500 per year.

So the 2% increase in savings tax and dividend tax will cost him at least £2,500.

6/

If we take him at his word and his house is now “only” worth £2,500,000 (he wouldn’t be putting his house in the lowest bracket for this new mansion tax would he?!😜)

That means his house would still be (around) the 15th most expensive house in Cobham, the 2nd most desirable place in Britain

5/

He claims his house WAS worth £3mil but is now only £2.5mil and it’s lost 15% in the last 18 months “under Labour”

Right Move says sold house prices in Cobham are down 5% in the last year and 6% down from their peak in 2022.

Why would his house be down 15%?!

4/

So he’s been investing in property, doing them up and then selling them

Fair enough

And that’s what he used to buy his own house in 2016 - that’s what he considers to be his “pension”

His own house that he lives in🤷🏼‍♀️

3/

Here’s Paul

He’s 56

So he’s still a good 10 years away from retirement

He lives in Cobham, the Second most desirable town to live in the whole of Britain!

He apparently hasn’t been saving into a pension because of a scandal that happened - before he started his working life…🤔

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There's more

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It is both beyond belief, in my view, that Farage did not say these things. And beyond belief that he can’t remember OR believes it was just “schoolboy banter”.

And it is highly material now for what has changed, beyond he is more oily?

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“Andy Field, a GP in York, was two years below Farage. “If smartphones had been widely available at this time we would no doubt have footage of him goose-stepping as this was a fairly frequent sight in the playground, particularly when he was a prefect in the upper sixth,” he said.