Ho no! Santa puts 2.4billion kids on the naughty step

RUDE NIPPERS TO BLAME FOR A CLAUS CRISIS

- KATE NELSON

BRATTY kids are causing a dire shortage of Santas- even bad ones like Billy Bob Thornton in the classic film.

'D Fewer men are coming forward to play jolly Saint Nick in shops and grottos - with badly behaved children cited as a key reason.

Santa Clauses also have to use the right pronouns, grow real beards, have DBS checks and put up with pushy parents.