Wish David Cameron was your dad?

Poor old dad.

People in the UK spend much more on gifts for mum than dad, according to a Father’s Day survey commissioned by law firm Dennison Greer.

Royal Mail statistics reflect the bad deal for dads with 13 million Mother’s Day cards being posted in 2009, compared to only 7 million sent to fathers.

So what’s the average dad to expect this year? He’ll get a £10 present at the most. And it will most likely be a tie.

Fathers were most likely to be given a tie to mark the occasion (32 per cent) and 16 per cent could expect to receive nothing at all. Almost everyone surveyed – 84 per cent- said they’d spend quality time with their mum to mark the occasion, but just 58 per cent would go the trouble for their dads.

The truth is in this day in age, many people are more concerned with celebrities than their own families. 36 per cent of people asked, consider Prime Minister David Cameron to be the top celebrity dad with father of three David Beckham (20 per cent) and single dad Peter Andre (19 per cent) also proving a popular paternal trade in.

Royal Mail statistics reflect the bad deal for dads with 13 million Mother’s Day cards being posted in 2009, compared to only 7 million sent to fathers. Law firm Dennison Greer, which commissioned the study, said it wanted to highlight the importance of dads in families.