‘You have no authority’: second Handforth Parish Council meeting disrupted

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A screen grab of Handforth Parish Council
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A new meeting of Handforth Parish Council has been disrupted by mischievous members of the public. The local authority shot to fame when a video of councillors arguing went viral earlier this month. At the latest meeting, shouts of “Jackie Weaver would not tolerate this” and “you have no authority” disrupted the event. Comedy music, such as the Benny Hill Theme, was also pumped into the Zoom meeting.

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.