It's little wonder that Margaret Hodge MP is on board as a participant in one of this drama’s post-show discussions. Set during our imminent general election, it takes place in Hodge’s Barking constituency, where the ever-barking Nick Griffin is planning to contest the seat for the BNP. Playwright Anders Lustgarten provides fictional political figures, but everything else, not least the situation for the beleaguered residents of the area, is all too real.

Lustgarten has created the dramatisation of a hundred knitted-brow think pieces: the growing disaffection of Labour’s core vote, namely the white working class, and the consequent lure of the anti-immigration far-Right. Pete Case (Julian Littman) used to be a Labour man in Dagenham’s car factories, but they’re all long closed, and he and his son are struggling to earn a living and get council housing. Cue the ironically named Gina White (Thusitha Jayasundera), a young mixed-race woman who is standing for the BNP.

It’s not race she’s about, you see, but patriotism and community, local services for local people.

Obviously Gina’s background, frustratingly under-explored though it is, makes this set-up more dramatically interesting than a Griffin rant-a-like, but it’s still tough to believe that a) the BNP would have her and b) she’d want to be had by them anyway, given the likes of hard nut old schooler Tony (Gwilym Lloyd) on their books.

Still, Lustgarten makes a credible go of it until the script belatedly loses the courage of both its convictions and logic, and Ryan McBryde directs a sassy production with eight sparky actors. Hodge can at least be thankful that her opponent isn’t of Gina’s intellectual calibre.