Britain’s lost influence at the UN

[Paddy]

Britain’s lost influence at the UN
Although Britain is still a member of the UN Security council, not many delegates want to hang around to listen to David Cameron. (look 2 minutes into the video).

Unsurprisingly the BBC tones this down but ironically the three articles by Jeremy Bowen of the BBC has made much about Amadinajad’s speech and his small audience which in fact was larger than David Cameron’s.

BBC News - Delegations walk out during Ahmadinejad UN speech

[Clippy]

To be fair, it was happy hour at the UN bar (where everyone knows your name but can't pronounce it) when Cameron was delivering his speech.

Or perhaps everyone thought it was the leader of Cameroon's speech!

[CheeseSlice]

No need to sit around watching all the boring bits. They're just Sky+'ing it so they can flick through to the important bits later.

[TimberWolf]

David who?

[Waldorf]

The Un is just a club for corrupt and bankrupt nations from Africa, Asia etc - load of