Hilarious parish council zoom meeting

I found this online:-

edition.cnn.com/2021/02/09/us/cat-filter-lawyer-zoom-court-trnd/index.html

Nandalot Tue 09-Feb-21 13:35:56
Have you seen the Jackie Weaver cake?

Many thanks! Hilarious! It's gone over well Down Under!
The Handforth Cheshire cat's definitely got the cream
OoRoo

Have you seen the Jackie Weaver cake?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-55902578

Namsnanny- JW is employed by the council. She was the person tasked with responding to a request for help from the other council members. They asked the Council to intervene in an attempts to make progress and prevent other members from bullying and controlling. The evidence in support of those allegations was clear very quickly.
I don’t believe it matters why the men were so angry. What matters is their behaviour, which was inexcusable

This viral clip has just been shown on one of our top social media evening TV channels, including a live chat with Jackie Weaver. and our four resident panel presenters.
She's a real comedienne and the chat was just as hilarious as the original video clip!
Suggestions include making TV/Film spin-offs! a la "Vicar of Dimbleby"
How can anyone claim, (with a straight face) that this isn't funny?
OoRoo

13.29 chewbacca thank you for some background information.

Without knowing why the men were so angry, and what actual power JW had, I dont think we can take this situation on face value.

It's a snapshot of a heated parish council meeting, and to the outsider is telling, and ofcourse funny.

Anger like slipping on a banana skin is always comic if it hasn't happened to yourself (faulty towers was built on that premise afterall).

As an aside I did note the chairman said before we start the meeting can we ..... so the 'rules' as such weren't breached, so they all did as they saw fit.

building political should be budding journalist

Yep as long as it was allowed by my employer I would have taken up those opportunities too.

I wonder what the boorish, argumentative males in the video thought of themselves on reflection. Did they actually learn anything? Anything at all? Are they still on the committee? I wonder what the people who know them think.

she could though have said "No" to any appearances

Why should she? She was propelled into the limelight by a building political journalist called Shaan Ali who just happened to randomly come across the meeting on YouTube and found it so extraordinary that he quickly publicised it. Why shouldn't Jackie Weaver take up the opportunities to show exactly what the bullying culture of these meetings is like? CEC has a reputation for its bullying culture, from the top down and has been well reported long before this latest incident. Google CEC and you'll maybe understand why those of us who pay our council taxes to them are so angry.

NellG she could though have said "No" to any appearances.

trisher I'm not sure anybody really cares that much. Except the residents of that parish, and even then chances are it'll be just a handful.

In Jackie Weavers defence I don't believe she posted the video, her 15 minutes of fame is just an artefact really.

Sparklefizz I'd have laughed too! Dear God, the pomposity of these people is staggering. I'd rather poke my own eyes out than consort with such eejits.

I think it's funny, but I do question the wisdom of just kicking people out of a Zoom meeting. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. Yes the two men were argumentative, boorish and disagreeable. One of them was noticably older and not used to Zoom. And I wonder at the end of the day what Jackie Weaver has acheived (apart from a high profile media episode for herself of course). Does anybody really imagine that this parish council's problems have been solved? Or will they re-emerge with a vengeance once lock down is over?

I laughed until I cried. Quite made my Sunday morning.

WW010 "There are some very territorial, bullying people involved in voluntary groups"

Yes, I found this when I joined U3A. They invited me to a coffee morning at which they said a few points would be discussed. A woman sat down with a pile of notes and began working through an agenda.

Someone asked her a question, and she said very sharply "If you want to ask a question, please address me as Madam Chairman".

I laughed out loud, thinking it was a joke, and quickly realised it wasn't when all heads turned to glare at me, followed by the person who'd been reprimanded then addressing the woman as "Madam Chairman" as requested. It was as if they were running a huge multinational.

I didn't go there again.

Sorry, I think the video is hilarious. I know others might disagree.

I think both Chewbacca. The video itself is hilarious. But I also think JW was right to kick out the people she did. I still laugh when I watch it (and I have watched it more times than I should really!).

We've only got to look to the House of Commons to see exactly how rude people can get in meetings funded by the tax payer, even when they know they are on national TV.

You've confused me now GagaJo; when you started the thread you described it as hilarious. Have you changed your mind now that the general consensus is that their behaviour was rude, obnoxious and unacceptable?

eazybee

So very easy to sneer.
Do any of you volunteer to serve, because that's what it is ?
Unpaid and unacknowledged and certainly unappreciated.

You may consider them fools, but are you prepared to volunteer and take their place?
Of course not.

I know what you mean and you’re right - in a way. However I think some people are put off volunteering for the very reason highlighted in the video. My friend went to her parish council meeting to get a feel for her new area and hope to join in. She was firmly put in her place. ‘No new people needed here love’. (All men btw). I’ve gone to volunteer at places where I’ve then been made to feel very unwelcome. There are some very territorial, bullying people involved in voluntary groups. I don’t know the solution btw! Wish I did.

yes that's what tickled me .They told her she couldn't and she did! Brilliant.

That's the thing though, the hilarious part is how easily Jackie did what she was told she couldn't do.

The very unfunny part, and the worrying part, is the shocking belligerence of the two men, and the support of them by a third.

The even more worrying part is that there are people on this thread ( and no doubt elsewhere) who think it's OK for people in a position of responsibility to behave like this at all.

The one redeeming feature of being human is our ability to observe, learn and change. Unfortunately some don't want to because it doesn't serve them to do so.

The men were pretty stupid as well as obnoxious, to not realise that Jackie could just eject them from the meeting with a click of her mouse.

RulaNula There's a difference between disagreeing/talking over each other/shouting and pure anger and aggression.
The first is acceptable, the second is definitely not.

Oh and one of the most aggressive meetings I worked at was one for a charity. Men and women

In the end we had to call time.

Human beings get very animated