Incarnations of the Doctor are a bit like British prime ministers.
Writer Mark Gatiss subverts that by having Churchill borrow the Daleks to fight the Nazis.
And then theres all that interstellar Spitfire business.
Keep buggering on, indeed.
In any case, this allowed the production team to make some sci-fi speculations about their prospective future.
Were turning the alarm off now.
Russell T. Davies modernisedDoctor Whoby taking an askance view of contemporary pop culture and politics.
By the next time we see her, the Tenth Doctor has different ideas.
Unfortunately for pretty much everyone, he was also the Master in disguise.
So, there have been worse prime ministers than the ones we get in real life, certainly.
As the Eleventh Doctor remarks, its democracy in action.
