Councillors who featured in viral Handforth council Zoom meeting say their life became 'hell'
Councillors who featured in the Handforth council Zoom meeting that went viral say their lives became "hell" in the aftermath.
Handforth parish council operates in the eponymous Cheshire town, which is home to around 6,000 people. It rarely makes headline news - but after a recorded meeting went viral, the world's media became interested. Aled said: “Basically it’s been two years of hell. We’ve got a situation now where certain people don’t say, ‘Oh it’s Handforth Town Council’. The initials that are being used are HCC – Handforth Clown Council.
“If we go to a pub, we go out of the village - we don’t go into local pubs because we do not wish to be involved in civil disobedience. It took me a fair while to convince Aled he could go into the village on his own and do his shopping. There never has been a problem but it’s the thought in the back of your mind that there could be a problem.”
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