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This Is The Doctor Who General Election

The Radio Times cover for Election week there. Nice.

The UK has entered the month-long General Election campaign, where all Members of Parliaments' seats are up for grabs and either Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the Labour Party will keep a majority of seats or, as is much more likely, be defeated by the Conservative Party. Or have a hung Parliament with no overall majority and all hell breaking loose.

So we need a firm, steady hand on the electoral tiller. We need Doctor Who.

The following political ad by the Labour Party features Sean Pertwee, son of Jon Pertwee, who played the third incarnation of The Doctor in the early-to-mid seventies. Sean references his father in the ad, stating "You know my father always said, don't give up. Show resolve, he said. He was so right."

He also said to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow, but Sean doesn't go into that here.

The tagline is provided by David Tennant, who played the tenth incarnation of the character and who recently retired from the role. Tennant speaks in his natural, Scottish accent. Just like Gordon Brown.

When the Conservative Party won an unlikely election in 1992, the Tory-supporting newspaper The Sun led with the headline It's The Sun Wot Won It. Given current polls could it be The Doctor Who Lost It?

Although, as last weekend's episode reminded us, every five years we vote, and then forget what we did and why we did it for another five…

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