SUPERHEROES and politicians are not two groups which should ever go together easily, but this week that’s what I’m talking about.

Brace yourself folks, this is going to get geeky.

Firstly, a little bit of background. Marvel Studios are the movie-making wing of Marvel Comics responsible for superhero films including Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, The Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy.

Even if you haven’t seen the films or heard of the comics, you’d be among a tiny handful of the international population if you hadn’t had the advertising and merchandising forced on your retina to coincide with the release of the movies.

Critically, the films are considered a mixed bunch –formulaic and noisy, and often nodding too heavily towards future entries in the franchise.

Financially however, they’ve been an enormous success – in the last six years, the studio has made literally billions of dollars by sticking to a carefully plotted plan, releasing one or two standalone movies a year leading up to a crowd pleasing blockbuster which both rounds off one phase of the studio’s plan and kicks off the next.

Last week, Marvel announced their plans for 2016 through until 2019, with nine movies given release dates, and millions of fans screaming “TAKE MY MONEY NOW” as the event was tweeted live around the globe.

Thanks for your patience, now here’s the seamless segue...

Our politicians have, at best, five years to outline their manifesto, convince people their ideas are good and they’re a trustworthy bunch, then implement the plans. If all goes well, the public will look at their achievements and decide they’re worth voting in again, and the Government has another five years to build on their good work, and improve life for the 64 million or so people they’re paid enormous amounts to look after.

Simple, right?

So how come day in day out, all we’re hearing about is how the people in charge of running the country are failing so spectacularly?

The excuses are all largely the same too – ‘we inherited a poor situation from the Government before us’. ‘We’re doing our best’. ‘We know the results aren’t there right now, but we solemnly promise that if you give us another five years, we’ll turn this losing streak around and everything will be fine’.

Yes, things can be turned around, but only if everyone is on the same page – that won’t work if parties are taking pot shots to gain a few extra seconds on the news at their rivals’ expense, or if individuals are only interesting in keeping their old Eton buddies in the lifestyle to which they are accustomed - while simultaneously forcing working parents and benefit seekers to live in conditions the Bulllingdon Club couldn’t even begin to comprehend.

If Call Me Dave is so determined to run our country like a business – by privatising the NHS (no matter how he dresses it up, that’s where he’s heading), selling off all our assets at drastically undervalued prices to keep his banking chums rolling in it (goodbye Royal Mail), and slashing budgets in the public sector while farming work out to the private sector where the rich get richer regardless of performance – then why can’t he at least choose a successful business model to base it on?

In the late 1990s Marvel Studios went bankrupt. Fast forward 15 years or so, and it’s now one of the most profitable studios in the world, because it made a plan, and stuck to it. Everyone pulled in the right direction, followed one vision, and things got done right, until one of their efforts became the third highest-grossing movie of all time.

The good people at Marvel Studios can make millions of cinemagoers believe that an Australian actor is an ancient Nordic god with a magic hammer. The Tories can’t even convince their own politicians to stay with the party. Mind you, Ed Miliband can’t convince the public he’s ever eaten a sandwich.

Yes, I am fully aware that comic book movies have a built-in audience who will pay to see their favourite characters on the big screen, and it’s probably not a fair comparison.

But I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to consider the British public a built-in audience for the events that affect our lives on a daily basis. The difference is, we’re not paying for cinema tickets, we’re paying for free healthcare, clean streets, decent policing, roads, and a life where you’re not faced with dour-faced politicians telling you how much trouble the country’s coffers are in, then awarding themselves ludicrous pay rises the same day.

Some say that thinking of the fans and not the shareholders is the key to Marvel’s success.

I say that any political party that can ignore petty bickering, make a plan and stick to it, and improve life for everyone in the country and not just the one per cent, can sign me up to their fan club.