Doctor Who (Mk 10) adds voice to Labour campaign
- Publication: The Times
- Date: 2010-04-13
- Author: Valentine Low
- Page: 10
- Language: English
Fetch the sonic screwdriver, start up the Tardis and prepare for power. The Labour Party has unveiled its latest recruit as Doctor Who.
Or, to be strictly accurate, the actor David Tennant, who played the Tenth Doctor, before he had to regenerate and become a younger, fresher, edgier version of his old self (not a trick that Gordon Brown has mastered yet, but there area few weeks to go).
In the first election broadcast of the campaign, seen on television last night. Tennant provided the voiceover for a broadcast featuring the actor Sean Pertwee, the son of Jon Pertwee, who played the Third Doctor.
In the two-and-a-half-minute film, which is notably devoid of Daleks or any other power-crazy aliens intent on destroying the planet (unless of course there is a subliminal message about the Conservative Party we have missed), Pertwee trudges across a bleak moor as he talks about the tough choices facing people on "the road ahead". Tennant provides the message at the end: "We have been through tough times, but by staying on the right road, we can make Britain the country we all want it to be, to build a future that is fair for all of us." It is filmed in the North York Moors National Park, which in t e old days of Doctor Who could have passed muster for some distant planet in the 43rd century.
Tennant has already made plain his view on the Tories: worse than the Slitheen, it seems, possibly even as bad as the Jagaroth. "I think David Cameron is a terrifying prospect," he said earlier this year. "I get quite panicked at the notion that people are buying his rhetoric"
One does not, however, live for 900 years, and survive encounters with Ice Warriors and Sea Devils, by having a simplistic attitude to these things.
"Clearly, the Labour Party is not without some issues right now and I do get frustrated," he said. "They need to sort some stuff out, but they are still a better bet than the Tories."
Who has the Doctors' vote?
Tom Baker Politicians? Exterminate them all. Used to hate the Tories when they were In power; Labour got in. now he hates them
Peter Davison Trembles at the idea of the Tories back In power, he said this week. Trembles? This from the man who faced The Master?
Colin Baker Said nice things about Paul Goodman, his Tory MP. but would like to see more independents Sylvester McCoy Blew the gaff on the show's Tory-baiting years, saying that Margaret Thatcher was more terrifying than any monster
Guess who? Helen A Doctor Who villainess played by Sheila Hancock in 1988. She praised her secret police for their enterprise as they rounded up dissidents. Got it yet?
Christopher Eccleston Played a Labour activist in Our Friends In the North. More likely to eat his sonic screwdriver than vote Tory
Matt Smith Little is known of his political affiliations, but in his breakthrough role In Party Animals he played a Labour researcher
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