Politics turn sober with weak Oakwood brew

Sod the election. Show your party allegiance by getting your smackers round a pint of True Blue, Red Flag or Alliance Bitter, beers designed by Oakwood DC for Safeway in the run up to 7 June.

The labels feature less than complimentary headlines about the likes of Ann Widdecombe and Ken Livingstone, rather than the heads of each party ‘in case they died prior to the election’, says Oakwood head creative Andy Luckhurst.

In case you were wondering, the brew is a weak 3.8 per cent and the substance the same beneath different packaging