There is no Father Christmas. It's just a marketing ploy
to make low income parents' lives a misery.
... I want you to picture the trusting face of a child,
streaked with tears because of what you just said.
I want you to picture the face of its mother, because one
week's dole won't pay for one Master of the Universe
Battlecruiser!
-- Filthy Rich and Catflap, 1986.