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Jackie Weaver immediately after booting parish council chairman Brian Tolver off a Zoom call. (Twitter/janinemas0n) A viral video of a virtual parish council meeting descending into chaos, featuring instant icon Jackie Weaver, has been set to Lady Gaga’s Because, of course. The latest lockdown-viewing sensation is a sweary and foul-tempered Zoom meeting of the Handforth Parish council, located just south of Manchester. Parish council meetings are usually thought of as sleepy affairs, but a ...

Like many things in the last year or so, local council planning meetings have moved online due to the coronavirus. Normally they would only be of interest to people in the local area being discussed - and even then, only the most hardcore local politics geek would actually sit through them. But this clip from Handforth Parish Council is something different. It all kicks off in the meeting, with members screaming at each other, and being thrown out of the Zoom call. i’ve never missed in person...