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[–] Patch@feddit.uk 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

There are hardly any seats left which haven't selected a Labour candidate at this point. All of the safe seats were done ages ago. The handful that are left vacant are all the absolute no-hopers for Labour where nobody really cares who the candidate is because they're not going to win anyway.

Any defectors hoping to go that route have long since missed the boat. They'd have had to have jumped ship a year or two ago.