THE OUTCOME of the 2015 general election was a smack in the face for the Parliamentary Labour Party, exposing its fundamental inability to provide credible alternatives to the catastrophe of the Cameron-Clegg coalition and cementing the shift to the right in the Tory government.

Using the election campaign of that year as the context for his political satire, writer Ben Alderton attempts to lampoon political leaders and the methods they deployed in pursuit of power. Thinly veiled caricatures of Miliband, Cameron and Clegg  expose their personal and political weaknesses and the corrupt and cynical culture that defines our political institutions.

Successful satire needs to interpret political truths in a way that exposes the absurdities, contradictions and frailties that infect the political system and the individuals who inhabit and exploit it. The failure of this production is that the caricatures of the key individuals are simply not convincing.