Westminster SNP leader blasts Johnson’s ‘car crash’ UN speech
In a statement via Twitter on Thursday Ian Blackford, leader of the Scottish National Party in the House of Commons described Prime minister Boris Johnson’s recent United Nations speech a ‘car crash’.
During the speech at the UN General assembly New York on Wednesday, the PM warned that global warming was already inevitable, but called on world leaders to commit to curbing the process.
Mr Johnson also attempted to add an element of humour to his remarks, by commenting that fictional character Kermit the Frog had been wrong when he sang ‘It’s Not Easy Bein’ Green’.
Mr Blackford slammed this element of the speech, saying: “This is a car crash, miss placed, embarrassing, failing to grasp his audience or sense of occasion. He lacks the gravitas needed at important moments where leadership are required, not tomfoolery.”
His response was a quote of an earlier tweet by journalist Jonathan Lis:
Both the best and worst thing about this is Johnson’s realisation in real time that outside a friendly after-dinner speech or Tory conference his lazy wing-it public-school bullshitting utterly exposes him
pic.twitter.com/neHfaNezR5— Jonathan Lis (@jonlis1) September 23, 2021
