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grassroots members happy. i think the weird thing about this to me is that the tories had first mover advantage in this election and they went with that first mover advantage but hadn't sort out sorted out all of their candidates. and i think that they... you know, you can see why labour have had a scramble. you could see why the tories shouldn't have had a scramble because they are the ones who had a heads up, but they've had a scramble too. but candidate selection can often be very messy, so it's not unusual that big political parties end up in a bit of a mess. but susanna it's a very, very good question and i hope we've managed to answer it at least partly. it's a bit of a mess. yeah, i should quickly say, given that i didn't name a seat specifically there, that there'll be a full list of all of the candidates in basildon and billericay and indeed in that corner of aberdeenshire one on the bbc website once the closure of nominations comes around. on that point about the surprise thing, laura, i was talking to a senior labour party the other day, he was saying and they were of course they were making a partisan point, but they were saying, how come the conservatives seemed more surprised about this surprise election than than they did?