THE chaotic Handforth Parish Council meeting that saw the chairman unceremoniously booted off a Zoom call has sparked a flurry of hilarious memes. Twitter was flooded with jokes, gifs and good-old ...

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The films on Netflix have nothing on the latest lockdown viewing sensation: Handforth Parish Council. Parish council meetings are often dismissed as being sleepy affairs, but a recent Zoom call - ...

Jackie Weaver, of Handforth Parish Council fame, is launching a comedy podcast. Comedians Isy Suttie, Omid Djalili, Matt Forde, Rosie Jones, Tom Allen and Nigel Ng will be among the guests appearing ...

A parish council Zoom meeting became an internet hit after councillors were filmed trading insults and booting a chairman from the call as the meeting descended into chaos. The footage of the ...

Power struggles, in-fighting and the bathos of video-conferencing: the compulsively watchable viral video of the Handforth Parish Council meeting is surely 2021’s answer to The Thick of It. With its ...