Chaotic parish council zoom meeting goes viral: ’You have no authority here Jackie Weaver’

A town council meeting which descended into chaos - with councillors trading insults and ultimately getting booted off the Zoom call has become an internet sensation and a metaphor for the UK’s woes under lockdown. Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube ► Footage of the extraordinary exchanges of the Handforth parish council meeting in Cheshire – described by one participant as ’a very good example of bullying within Cheshire east and the environs’ – has been shared thousands of times on Twitter. The name of the heroically stoic clerk, Jackie Weaver, trended on Twitter and spawned several memes Insults and expletives turn parish council Zoom meeting into internet sensation ► Support the Guardian ► Today in Focus podcast ► The Guardian YouTube network: The Guardian ► Guardian Football ► Guardian Sport ► Guardian Culture ► #JackieWeaver #HandforthParishCouncil #Zoom