Though the town has a wacky reputation, with patchwork trousers and beads much in evidence on the High Street, the constituency is largely rural.
Reggae, a world class musical powerhouse, has fast-forwarded and rewound through time for inspiration, attuned to its street level constituency and forever on the look out for fresh moves.
The park in Flushing, by contrast, serves more of a street-skating constituency.
On the one hand, it is a relief to see Darling finally let the cat out of the bag and talk straight in an assessment of the economy that echoes some of the concern - and sometimes some of the language - out on the streets of constituencies such as Bristol North West up and down the country.
She also said it was an issue she had been approached about in the street in her constituency.
"The scale of the challenge is immense... do I think that by Thursday afternoon people in the Dog & Duck on the high street in my constituency will be voting for Gordon because of Obama?
One senior member of the cabinet took a walk down the high street in his constituency last weekend and was taken aback to see more than a dozen shops either holding closing-down sales or boarded up already.
Stephen Timms, the Labour MP who was stabbed by a constituent at his surgery in 2010, said the ability of people to see their MP in the street or in constituency surgeries was "a really, really important part of how we do things".
Ukip revealed its infamous Breaking Point poster, an almost exact copy of footage from a Nazi propaganda film; hours later, an idealistic young pro-EU Labour MP was shot and stabbed to death on the street in her constituency by a Nazi sympathiser shouting "Britain first".
Last weekend 250 activists turned up to canvass across Tory-held Battersea when, according to their candidate Will Martindale, all but 10 streets in the constituency were canvassed.
