GORDON BROWN AS NICK BOTTOM

Given the interest generated by the New Labour Government's campaign poster of opposition leader David Cameron depicted as the hero of "Ashes to Ashes", I've decided to cast Gordon Brown in the role of the ass-headed Bottom (shown here), a figure of fun in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Bottom temporarily becomes the love object of Queen of the Fairies (analogous to women voting for New Labour ?), due to a work of enchantment, in this case perhaps by Peter Mandelson. All in the end is put to right.