Possible Clues:

• In the way
• Sole place for subjection
• How some things are crushed
• Less than 12 in shortly
• It's the sole thing that's over it
• Downtrodden like Old Labour?
• Twenty years ago Labour MPs were downtrodden!
• How things are often trampled
• Conditions of concern to groundsmen
• There's less than 12 in here