'Good on her': how Jackie Weaver became an internet star

Handforth residents, a comedian and young political activists helped explosive parish council meeting go viral

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

It was the distraction the nation didn't know it needed: a poor-quality recording of an online meeting of a Cheshire parish council, called by two councillors following the refusal of the council chairman to call such a meeting".

Normally such a congress would struggle to raise a quorum, let alone an audience of millions. Yet against all odds, December's Extraordinary Meeting of Handforth parish council's planning and environment committee went viral on Thursday night.