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The Fictional Election: Who Gets Your Vote?
We’ve seen the debates, we’ve heard them squabble and dodge each other’s questions with the elegance of professional Fencers and now we’re worrying about a hung parliament. As the nation prepares itself for the election, I couldn’t help but wishing 24’s President Palmer was in the running (although I don’t approve of his controversial tactics of negotiating with terrorists, his wife, Sherry, could eat a cabinet for breakfast). This got me thinking about fictional leaders, would our defecit be as bad if we had Scrooge as our Treasurer? Jack Bauer gets my vote for Minister of Defence (there’s nothing that man won’t do to protect his country and he looks so good in that vest)? And wouldn’t Hercule Poirot, with his immaculate tash, have been able to sniff out Weapons of Mass Destruction or even Bin Laden himself? Yes, he’s fond of entrapment but Don Corleone is Justice Minister.
Would Miss Marple not be the perfect person to carryout the expenses enquiry? I can just imagine her the perfect house guest in all those beautiful unsuspecting mansions, carefully noting the soft furnishings armed only with a cup of tea and the ‘John Lewis list’. And who wouldnt want Howard Moon for culture minister? Welcome to my bright fictional future. At least if we had Pinochio we’d know when he was lying.
Who would u vote for in a fictional election? You can vote here: http://wp.me/pUjlS-1E or comment below? Please nominate any fictional character from book, film or TV and let us know why.
p.s. Do the good people of California realise that the Terminator is not actually their Governor?
This post was submitted by belledelivre.
