Editing Dalek (section)

===Politics===
At the 1966 [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] conference in [[Blackpool]], delegate [[Hugh Dykes]] publicly compared the Labour government's [[Secretary of State for Defence|Defence Secretary]] [[Denis Healey]] to the creatures. "Mr. Healey is the Dalek of defence, pointing a metal finger at the armed forces and saying 'I will eliminate you'."<ref name="healy">{{cite news |title=Defence – Mr Healey 'The Dalek' |work=The Times |location=UK |date=15 October 1966 |page=13}}</ref>

In a [[British Government]] [[Parliamentary Debate]] in the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]] on 12 February 1968, the then [[Minister of Technology]] [[Tony Benn]] mentioned the Daleks during a reply to a question from the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|MP]] [[Hugh Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Putney|Hugh Jenkins]] concerning the [[Concorde]] aircraft project. In the context of the dangers of [[solar flare]]s, he said, "Because we are exploring the frontiers of technology, some people think Concorde will be avoiding solar flares like Dr. Who avoiding Daleks. It is not like this at all."<ref name="benn">{{cite news |title=The Commons: cost of Concorde: market for Beagles |work=The Times |location=UK |date=13 February 1968 |page=5}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1968/feb/12/concorde-aircraft#S5CV0758P0_19680212_HOC_81|title=Concorde Aircraft|work=[[Hansard|Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)]]|date=12 February 1968|access-date=7 November 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308211855/http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1968/feb/12/concorde-aircraft#S5CV0758P0_19680212_HOC_81|archive-date=8 March 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Australian Labor Party]] luminary [[Robert Ray (Australian politician)|Robert Ray]] described his right wing [[Labor Unity]] faction successor, Victorian Senator [[Stephen Conroy]], and his Socialist Left faction counterpart, [[Kim Carr]], as "factional Daleks" during a 2006 [[Australian Fabian Society]] lunch in Sydney.<ref name="Cavalier">{{cite news |last=Cavalier |first=Rodney |date=22 September 2006 |title=Daleks essential to Beazley going forward |url=https://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/daleks-essential-to-beazley-going-forward/2006/09/21/1158431840640.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629150837/http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/daleks-essential-to-beazley-going-forward/2006/09/21/1158431840640.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1 |archive-date=29 June 2011 |access-date=24 March 2010 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |page=19}}</ref>

During a 2021 House of Commons debate about the retention of dentists in rural areas of the United Kingdom during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], the voice of Conservative MP [[Scott Mann (politician)|Scott Mann]] of [[North Cornwall]], while on a video link, became distorted due to a malfunction with his audio feed. [[Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)|Deputy Speaker of the House]] [[Nigel Evans]] interrupted his broadcast, amidst the chuckles from other MPs; by saying, "Scott, you sound like a Dalek and I don't mean that unkindly. There's clearly a communications problem." Mann later returned to apologise.<ref>{{cite web |last=Chao-Fong |first=Chao-Fong |date=14 January 2021 |title='You Sound Like A Dalek'–MP Has Ominous Malfunction in Parliament |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/scott-mann-dalek_uk_600078b4c5b6efae62f6ba58 |access-date=22 December 2024 |work=Huffpost}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2021/jan/14/scott-you-sound-like-a-dalek-mps-speech-disrupted-by-unfortunate-tech-malfunction-video|title='Scott, you sound like a Dalek': MP's speech disrupted by tech malfunction - The Guardian.com video|newspaper=The Guardian|date=14 January 2021}}</ref>

Daleks have been used in [[political cartoon]]s to caricature: [[Douglas Hurd]], as the 'Douglek', in [[Private Eye]]'s [[Dan Dare|Dan Dire – Pilot of the Future]]; [[Tony Benn]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/record/NG2207 |title=View cartoon item: NG2207 |last=Garland |first=Nicholas |author-link=Nicholas Garland |date=31 January 1981 |work=The Spectator |location=UK |publisher=[[British Cartoon Archive]] |access-date=23 March 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716061855/http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/record/NG2207 |archive-date=16 July 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[John Birt]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/record/PC2527 |title=View cartoon item: PC2527 |last=Bell |first=Steve |author-link=Steve Bell (cartoonist) |date=19 September 1997 |work=The Guardian |location=UK |publisher=[[British Cartoon Archive]] |access-date=23 March 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716061955/http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/record/PC2527 |archive-date=16 July 2011}}</ref> [[Tony Blair]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Blair's rule by diktat |first=Steve |last=Bell |author-link=Steve Bell (cartoonist) |url=https://www.theguardian.com/cartoons/stevebell/0,7371,955640,00.html |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=14 May 2003 |access-date=23 March 2010 |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130930144750/http://www.theguardian.com/cartoons/stevebell/0,7371,955640,00.html |archive-date=30 September 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/record/DB0110 |title=View cartoon item: DB0110 |last=Brown |first=Dave |author-link=Dave Brown (cartoonist) |date=17 November 1998 |work=The Independent |location=UK |publisher=[[British Cartoon Archive]] |access-date=23 March 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716062142/http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/record/DB0110 |archive-date=16 July 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Alec Douglas-Home]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/record/06437 |title=View cartoon item: 06437 |last=Weisz |first=Victor |author-link=Victor Weisz |date=25 December 1964 |work=New Statesman |location=UK |publisher=[[British Cartoon Archive]] |access-date=23 March 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716062219/http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/record/06437 |archive-date=16 July 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Charles de Gaulle]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/record/06435 |title=View cartoon item: 06435 |last=Illingworth |first=Leslie Gilbert |author-link=Leslie Gilbert Illingworth |date=16 December 1964 |work=Daily Mail |location=UK |publisher=[[British Cartoon Archive]] |access-date=23 March 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716062417/http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/record/06435 |archive-date=16 July 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Mark Thompson (television executive)|Mark Thompson]].<ref>{{cite news |title=How the call for aid to Gaza left the BBC in the thick of battle |first=Steve |last=Bell |author-link=Steve Bell (cartoonist) |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/cartoon/2009/jan/27/bbc-gaza-aid-appeal |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=27 January 2009 |access-date=23 March 2010 |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130905181230/http://www.theguardian.com/world/cartoon/2009/jan/27/bbc-gaza-aid-appeal |archive-date=5 September 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref>