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A PARISH council meeting which descended into chaos — with councillors trading insults and ultimately getting booted off the Zoom call — has become an unlikely internet sensation. After clips of the Handforth Parish Council meeting were uploaded to Twitter, it was soon shared thousands of times. The name of one of the meeting’s participants, Jackie Weaver, became the fourth trending item on Thursday evening. The meeting on December 10 was the second time chair Brian Tolver had been removed, having previously been evicted from the earlier 7pm Planning and Environment Committee. B...

FOR the uninitiated, this next sentence might be a strange one to read: A clip from Handforth Parish Council’s December 2020 planning and environment committee meeting went viral yesterday (February 5). The 30-second clip, posted on Twitter by Janine Mason, has gained more than 2 million views in less than 24 hours — and the original 18-minute ‘best of’ video now has in excess of 300,000 views. That prompts a few questions, like who is in the clip, what their argument is about, and just why their disagreement is so poisonous. Now, the Local Democracy Reporting Service will att...

The clips were a hit with Twitter users, with more than five thousand retweets and 32,000 likes.

Council member claims he 'had reason to be angry' in viral Jackie Weaver clash. (PA) BRIAN Tolver, whose eviction from the Handforth Parish Council meeting in Cheshire went viral, has said clerk Jackie Weaver was wrong to kick him out of the zoom call. The video, taken from the council’s December 2020 planning and environment committee meeting went viral on social media overnight and has over two million views. Clips of the meeting show councillors trading blows before members were booted off the call by Jackie Weaver. Since the exchange has become a viral hit, Mr Tolver who was re...

Handforth Parish Council in Cheshire was holding an emergency planning committee meeting that kicked off Chairman Brian Tolver clashed with Jackie Weaver who made herself the 'clerk' and said it was illegal hearing  She clamped down and ejected Cllr Tolver after he told her her to 'stop talking' and said: 'You've no authority'  Jackie Weaver is at the centre of a row between two rival factions fighting for control of the town council  She said: 'I'm glad I was sitting not standing, my knees were shaking. No, I didn't feel as confident as I looked'