It’s not easy being green…
After this week referring to remote communities as “lifestyle choices” and causing wide-spread offence among Indigenous Australians, you’d think the Prime Minister might be watching his words a little.
Not so, apparently. Even pre-recording his St. Patrick’s Day message to Irish Australians couldn’t save the chronically gaffe-prone PM from insulting them.
Despite St. Patrick’s Day not being until next Tuesday, the video has already appeared on the Liberal Party’s YouTube page and is already been slammed as “patronising” by Irish ex-pats.
@EndaKennyTD check Tony Abbott’s St. Patrick’s day address. Can #Ireland declare war on him or something? http://t.co/1v4yOgcDYZ @IrishTimes
— Nic Halley (@NicHalley) March 12, 2015
Top Comments
How bizarre! He's effectively making the same speech in both videos, but in 2015 he sounds like he's sending himself up. And this speech would be patronising if it was targeted at a group of school children, let alone a large portion of the adult population of Australia...
So all these people with sour grapes because there party didn't win the election ,,get over it ,,any way what makes you think you can compare yourself to a counties prime minister ,have some respect
Hahaha! Brilliant. The comedy comments keep on rolling in. Hi Freya!