Paper Monitor
13:02 UK time, Wednesday, 6 October 2010
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Decisions, decisions. Get them right and no-one will thank you. Get them wrong and you'll never hear the end of it, a maxim reinforced every time Paper Monitor picks a birthday present for Paper Monitor's mum.
Take the latest course of action taken by the government - to remove child benefit from families with at least one parent earning more than about £44,000 a year.
You may, like believe that "absurdity of paying benefits to the better-off should have been addressed decades ago". Or you might prefer to follow the in the same newspaper: "If you have a binful of dirty Pampers, prepare to start pelting them now."
What everyone can agree on is that David Cameron's government has annoyed a sizeable chunk of its core support.
The Daily Mail is livid that families with stay-at-home mothers will be penalised under the plans., it howls, over a selection vituperative comments selected from its own website and that barometer of political opinion, Mumsnet.
The Sun opines that it is to Mr Cameron's "great credit" that he has not been afraid to annoy his own supporters in his efforts to reduce the deficit.
However, a gleeful wonders whether this "might soon stand alongside Gordon Brown's scrapping of the 10p tax rate as a gross political error".
None of this, however, comes close to the fury unleashed at X Factor judge Cheryl Cole's decision to axe contestant Gamu Nhengu in favour of two rivals who had botched their auditions.
According to the Sun, Ms Cole has received
The Daily Mirror, too, reports "a flood of protests" from "furious viewers" - likely to be made all the more furious after reading that Ms Nhengu will be deported after her visa reached its expiry.
Perhaps Ms Cole and Mr Cameron could share coping strategies on provoking the wrath of one's own fanbase.
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