'Read the standing orders!': chaotic parish council Zoom meeting goes viral – video

A town council meeting that descended into chaos - with councillors trading insults and ultimately getting booted off the Zoom call - has become an internet sensation and a metaphor for the UK's woes under lockdown.

Footage of the extraordinary exchanges of the Handforth council meeting in Cheshire - described by one participant as 'a very good example of bullying within Cheshire east and the environs' - has been shared thousands of times on Twitter. The name of the heroically stoic clerk, Jackie Weaver, trended on Twitter and spawned several memes

• Insults and expletives turn parish council Zoom meeting into internet sensation