Handforth Parish Council meeting - hilarious zoom video

[danny la rouge]

she speaks very well, good luck to her.

i'm definitely moving into the She Has Authority camp.

I’m a huge fan. I’ve no idea whether she had the authority, but she handled herself with wit, composure and dignity. Go Jackie.

 

[two sheds]

I'm on the side of whoever said 'fuck' right at the beginning of the recording.

 

[BigMoaner]

she has that 'local busy body' vibe which actually i have always admired/liked. i was involved locally in community work for a while and those people are actually incredibly valuable. they got so much done and put so much pressure in the right places, often with barely a word of thanks from the community. What did one of the greeks say about wisdom - no wisdom if you think about only yourself, part wisdom if you think only of you and your family, full wisdom if you think about your community. or something. or some such shit.

 

[BigMoaner]

I'm on the side of whoever said 'fuck' right at the beginning of the recording.

I just re listened and heard it for first time. It's 'fuck off'

 

[cyril_smear]

All the petty squabbling kind of reminds me of many posters on this website.

 

[ska invita]

she speaks very well, good luck to her.

i'm definitely moving into the She Has Authority camp.

moral authority for sure
but if youre going to do a power grab based on unacceptable behaviour and kick out the chair and vice chair you cant fudge it and elect a new chair for just one meeting
she kicked them out two meetings in a row! (id love to see the previous meeting)
what happens now?
there should be some kind of formal complaints procedure against the chair, and possibly vice chair too
they remain the official chairpersons
her reign of zoom-control is doomed once covid passes, or once the chair calls a zoom meeting and has the zoom link power to himself - hell be able to kick her out at a whim!!

All the petty squabbling kind of reminds me of many posters on this website.

piss off

 

[two sheds]

piss off

fuck off, surely

 

[cupid_stunt]

I'm on the side of whoever said 'fuck' right at the beginning of the recording.

They clearly knew how it was going to go, they must have a good crystal ball.

 

[ska invita]

fuck off, surely

got to mix it up a bit

 

[BigMoaner]

moral authority for sure
but if youre going to do a power grab based on and kick out the chair and vice chair you cant fudge it and elect a new chair for just one meeting
she kicked them out two meetings in a row! (id love to see the previous meeting)
what happens now?
thre should be some kind of formal complaints procedure against the chair, and possibly vice chair too
they remain the official chairpersons
her reign of zoom-control is doomed once covid passes, or once the chair calls a zoom meeting and has the zoom link power to himself - hell be able to kick her out at a whim!!

piss off

the plot thickens.

 

[ska invita]

the plot thickens.

tune in next week for another exciting installment of....

 

[BigMoaner]

that first fuck off has got me

 

[neonwilderness]

she kicked them out two meetings in a row! (id love to see the previous meeting)

 

[FridgeMagnet]

She’s not on the Council, so she doesn’t have the authority.

Political power grows out of the control of a Zoom session.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Jackie Weaver is being interviewed soon on Sky News.

 

[two sheds]

Are they going to ask her the hard standing orders questions though?

 

[Plumdaff]

As it was an extraordinary meeting called by two councillors, presumably called because the chairman refused to call a meeting despite a request in writing - then I suspect Jackie Weaver did have the authority. I say this as someone stupid enough to have sat on standing orders committees, though nothing as exciting as a Cheshire Parish council.

 

[two sheds]

Even after she'd passed the authority on to the chairman???

 

[Plumdaff]

Even after she'd passed the authority on to the chairman???

Does his authority stand in an extraordinary meeting that he claims is illegal? (It's perfectly legal, I suspect). Especially if they've spent the previous meeting have a circular argument about whether they can have an EM or not? In an EM which the chair refuses to convene and then claims erroneously is illegal, is the chair the chair?

 

[danny la rouge]

Since it seems to be Jackie’s Zoom account, she can boot out whoever she wants.

 

[brogdale]

This all reminds me of tales from Selling Parish Council near where my fam live down in Kent.

There's a full account here in the local hyper-local online rag and two of the more striking aspects of reports of councillor, Amanda Saunders are:

Her first complaint, immediately after she was dismissed, was over the 1993/1994 council audit. She filed an eight point complaint with the external auditor. Apart from some minor procedural issues, Price Waterhouse rejected her complaints. The cost to Selling Parish Council was £11,239 plus VAT, increasing the council tax for each house in the parish by £16.50.

and

The recent minutes of Selling Parish Council meetings show that she has routinely voted against the rest of the councillors on most areas of council business. According to the minutes of the winter 2017 meeting, it appears that she even voted against her own proposal.

 

[The39thStep]

I wonder what the AGM of Urban 75 on zoom would look like

 

[two sheds]

Selling: A Parish Council with a Problem

For nearly twenty five years, council meetings have been disrupted.

www.favershameye.co.uk

 

[brogdale]

I wonder what the AGM of Urban 75 on zoom would look like

 

[brogdale]

Selling: A Parish Council with a Problem

For nearly twenty five years, council meetings have been disrupted.

www.favershameye.co.uk

Biggie.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

isn't a certain j******n b****p a parish councillor somewhere?

wonder if they put their meetings on zoom?

 

[Serge Forward]

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That's nice. I always thought it'd look something like this:

 

[brogdale]

That's nice. I always thought it'd look something like this:

I can spot Marty there!

 

[BigMoaner]

That's nice. I always thought it'd look something like this:

looks like the clubs i used to go to in the early 00s in brixton

 

[cupid_stunt]