Handforth Parish Council meeting - hilarious zoom video

[xenon]

Has anyone under the age of 60 been on a parish council? This one was exactly how I imagined them to be, only slightly less boring.

 

[xenon]

Actually yes, even 60 is too young.

 

[Orang Utan]

Yesterday’s meming onslaught is proof that we all need to go outside more. Who would have predicted this excitement at a parish meeting going wrong?

 

[danny la rouge]

We don't have either of those things, not sure that they're necessary tbh.

I agree with your general analysis though, that in local government Cllrs are the complaints dept and the actual decisions are taken by council officials.

Its just that parish/community councils have no such bureaucratic underpinning. They’re basically neighbourhood watch committees for people interested in planning permission.

 

[Sue]

Do they have parish councils in cities or just the country?

They have them in (some parts of) Oxford.

 

[nogojones]

Has anyone under the age of 60 been on a parish council? This one was exactly how I imagined them to be, only slightly less boring.

I think our own Bonathon Jissop is on a couple of parish councils - One of the benefits of no one in their right mind wanting to be on the parish council. His body might be under 60. As for his mind?

 

[danny la rouge]

I think our own Bonathon Jissop is on a couple of parish councils - One of the benefits of no one in their right mind wanting to be on the parish council. His body might be under 60. As for his mind?

I think for community councils you have to live in the area covered, so you’d only be on one as they don’t overlap.

Elections are held, but you wouldn’t necessarily know if you’re not one of those who cares.

 

[Sue]

I've seen Animal Kingdom.

 

[krink]

 

[danny la rouge]

 

[xenon]

I think our own Bonathon Jissop is on a couple of parish councils - One of the benefits of no one in their right mind wanting to be on the parish council. His body might be under 60. As for his mind?

Exactly. There's a type this appeals to, the prosaic parochial politicking and tedious burocracy about park benches or whatever.

 

[two sheds]

Couple of people I know on the parish council round here are great. One was really involved with getting a local farmer to restore cornish hedges he'd grubbed out , helping local bloke survive by digging channel for him to install electricity line because he couldn't afford it, and organizes lots of local events round the village. The other has restored local noticeboards and footpath signs (lots of other stuff I'm doubtless unaware of). Another was involved in looking after the valley at the back of mine when it was parish council responsibility.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

football focus started with a piss-take on this today...

 

[Argonia]

football focus started with a piss-take on this today...

Bollocks I missed the first ten minutes. Will have to catch up on iPlayer.

 

[T & P]

To nobody's surprise, Aled 'I TAKE CHARGE!' Brewerton sounds like he could be a bit of a cunt...

Someone else who isn’t talking, as it turns out, is Councillor Brewerton, the one who lost his temper.
When The Independent phones, a man calling himself a lawyer – but declining to give his name – picks up.
“I suggest you keep very quiet on this,” he says, apparently not aware there are literally already mugs and T-shirts on sale referencing the whole affair. “You are talking to a lawyer. There are three lawyers in the [Brewerton] family … You are now at the top of our list.”
A list of what isn’t made clear.

‘Heroic’ Jackie Weaver lauded as Handforth blinks in sudden fame brought by parish council meeting

In Cheshire town at centre of viral video, few are surprised by squabbling on show

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Argonia]

Aled Brewerton's LinkedIn describes him as being skilled in "dispute resolution"!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aled-brewerton-743b3916/?originalSubdomain=uk

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I don't think they are very commen in urban areas. In coventry where i live there are 2 or 3 areas with parish councils but most of the city only has the city council. Doesn't make sense really as the equivalent sized area to a rural parish in a city has a bigger population.

Where I live is an unparished area - I was looking forward to standing as a councillor to amuse myself at the petty squabbling that seemingly goes on.

 

[Treacle Toes]

 

[Clair De Lune]

No surprise that the people who get into pointless, petty, boring squabbles see no humour in this

 

[Serge Forward]

Not wishing to be a party pooper, but I think this Handforth parish pudding has been well and truly over-egged. For that reason, I'm out.

 

[AmateurAgitator]

A very underwatched video remix if you ask me

 

[neonwilderness]

 

[Steel Icarus]

Everyone with Alexa, ask her who Jackie Weaver is.

 

[MrCurry]

Everyone with Alexa, ask her who Jackie Weaver is.

For the benefit of anyone without Alexa, what’s the answer?

 

[cupid_stunt]

For the benefit of anyone without Alexa, what’s the answer?

Alexa replies, 'do you mean Britney Spears?'

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Alexa replies, 'do you mean Britney Spears?'

I got that answer, but don’t get the joke

 

[Buddy Bradley]

I got that answer, but don’t get the joke

In the Zoom meeting she said she wanted to be known as Britney Spears (in response to the chair's unilateral declaration that he was now the Clerk).

 

[A380]

...as a 90 second musical.

 

[A380]

My late next door neighbor, ex chief exec of a county an an expert in all things local government wanted to set up an urban parish council in our street, apparently as well as the standing councillor model there is a constitutional framework that allows for decisions to be made at an open public meeting once a year. But no one has ever adopted this in England, presumably because the kind of people with the time to organise this desperately want to be councillors. Sadly my neighbor died before bringing his plans to fruition.

 

[kabbes]

You can also ask Alexa if Jackie Weaver has authority here