Labour National Executive Committee member and councillor was trapped in a tower block lift for around 20 minutes today, with a number of.other activists.
Unable to reach help within the building and with no help yet available from the lift company, she used her initiative and live-tweeted the experience to raise awareness of their situation:
— Claudia Webbe MP (@ClaudiaWebbe) January 13, 2018
Rescue arrived and no by-elections were triggered, but everyone showed remarkable composure in a literally tight situation.
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Hang on mate – 20 minutes, that’s nothing. My friend was stuck in a lift in Moscow in the 1980s for 5 hours with 10 Uzbekis; he couldn’t speak Russian, none of them could speak English – properly behind the Iron Curtain as it were. That wasn’t news and no-one reported it. If you want to be taken more seriously than the Guardian (and there are a billion good reasons why you should, don’t get me wrong), stick to real news.
In the 1980’s we had huge shoulder pads and awful mullets too.
Thought I’d add that as a completely irrelevant comment.
You missed the point by quite a distance on this occasion
rubbish – not even funny – honestly
Hang on mate, this is not the 1980s, nor is it in Russia. It’s a lift in a tower block in England.
The lift jammed, trapping several people, male and female, including two Islington councillors, in a very hot, confined space. The emergency telephone was not working.
I’m sure that in those conditions, my bladder would be issuing a warning.
Where is your empathy?