Paper Monitor
09:46 UK time, Friday, 8 April 2011
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Ahhh, look at them. Just a normal couple, jetting off for a sunshine break in Spain. A birthday treat for the missus, a chance to get away from the kids and the pressures of everyday life. Yes people, Dave and Sam Cameron are just like everybody else. Honest.
The proof? It's in all the newspapers today. Firstly, they flew to Spain on a budget airline. The Daily Mirror and the Times have an accompanying snap of them at Stansted airport and they really do look like the rest of us - slumped in plastic seats in the boarding area, looking bored witless.
Next, there's the costs of the mini break - or estimated costs because no paper can confirm any of the prices. Of course, mindful of how a luxury holiday would appear amid massive public spending cuts, Downing Street "sources" let it be known the couple were staying at a "mid-market" hotel near the Alhambra Palace in Granada. The Daily Mail delves deeper and discovers it is "a three-star family-run hotel, where a double room costs 120 euros (£105) a night". It puts the cost of flights at £152 each.
Then there's the holiday wardrobe. Jeans and a casual polo shirt for him and patterned maxi dress for her during the day. Black shirt and jeans for him and green maxi dress for her in the evening. Nothing fancy, which is a schoolboy error. Most normal people go a bit crazy on holiday and dress themselves in stuff they'd never normally wear at home - Hawaiian shirts, sarongs, that type of thing. The Camerons kept it far too tasteful.
But maybe the biggest indicator of how normal they really are is a picture of Dave using a cashpoint. It's in nearly all the papers. The Sun has a comedy thought bubble coming from his head saying: "Bloody Euros!" Great minds and all that, so does the Daily Mirror. Its bubble says: "This feels odd... normally I'm handling the banks' cash."
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