The good news - if NME readers controlled the up coming General
Election the cuddly Liberal Democrats would be in government.
The bad news - Chris Martin would be prime minister.
Those are the top-level findings of a new survey of NME readers' political tastes undertaken by pollsters Populus for the music magazine.
On a more practical level, the readers surveyed expect Tony
Blair to win the election, despite the fact the government are rubbish, if only because Michael Howard and the Conservatives would be even worse.
Pretty predictable stuff really, which is why the 'which rock star should be PM?' question was the most interesting (if irrelevant)
bit of the poll. NME readers preferred Martin for the PM job over other contenders, Bono, Morrissey, Thom Yorke and The Others'
Dominic Masters. Nutters.