Possible Clues:

• Spooner wanders around hospital identifying those likely to fail
• (Consistent) losers
• Futile writing to school for those with no chance of achieving their grades
• Turns up, agent in Soho finds quarter of them with no chance
• People expected to fail
• They haven't a chance of winning with losers
• Involved person admitting Home Office failures
• Ones without a chance in the world
• People who haven't a chance, in Britspeak