Support or suffocation

I've never seen a room quite so full as Committee Room 14 was last night for the Labour meeting.

The doors, which opened inwards, were jammed shut from the inside - too many bodies pushing against them - a full ten minutes before the thing began.

Then ten minutes later there was a long banging noise from inside.

People said it was MPs thumping the tables in support of Gordon Brown.

But it crossed my mind that they might actually all be banging on the door to get out in a last ditch attempt to avoid suffocation.

Just a thought.