Jackie Weaver’s Attack on Democracy Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons You’ve all seen the video by now, I’m sure.[1] A Handforth parish council meeting descends into chaos, with snickers and interruptions, before coming to a climax as the Chair and Vice-Chair are thrown out of the meeting. At the centre of it all is Jackie Weaver, host of the Zoom meeting and now widely believed to be the hero of the story. Twitter for the last few days has been abuzz with people ecstatically giggling at the way she dealt with supposedly ‘disruptive’ councillors. Op-eds in major newspapers have praised her for “standing [her] ground with pompous and aggressive men’.[2] She has even been acclaimed as a “feminist icon”: she might one day become Dame Jackie.[3]