![]() Veterans and their families expressed their displeasure after the former Labour prime minister was included in the Queen’s new year honours list.īut Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that he believed all former prime ministers should be knighted. ‘I would say if you’ve been prime minister of this country, I do believe the country should recognise the service they’ve given.’ They should all be offered that knighthood when they finish as prime minister.’ He said: ‘Whatever people might think, it is one of the toughest jobs in the world and I think it is respectful, and it is the right thing to do, whether it is to Tony Blair or to David Cameron. At 75,000 signatures, this petition becomes one of the top signed on Change. However, Carol Valentine, whose son was killed while clearing landmines in Afghanistan in 2009, described the honour as the ‘ultimate insult’. Hazel Hunt, whose son Richard died at the age of 21 in Afghanistan, said she was ‘contemplating sending the Elizabeth Cross back as my sign of protest’. Journalist Richard Medhurst wrote on Twitter that Mr Blair was a ‘war criminal’ who ‘lied about WMDs’. The Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq War found British intelligence into Saddam Hussein’s purported weapons of mass destruction was ‘flawed’.įilmmaker John Pilger tweeted: ‘The contempt in which Britain’s elite holds the public has never been more eloquently expressed than in the decision to award Tony Blair the highest order of knighthood. ‘One million Iraqis dead, three million disposed, a trail of blood to 7/7. Lindsay German, a founding member of the Stop The War Coalition, said she found it ‘pretty incredible’ that Mr Blair would be knighted within months of the Taliban retaking Afghanistan. She told LBC radio: ‘I think it’s pretty incredible given that this year, we’ve seen the collapse of Afghanistan, which Tony Blair’s first major war in the war on terror. An online petition asking that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's newly announced knighthood be rescinded has been signed by more than 146,000 people as of Sunday morning, with the goal of. ![]() ‘We have eight million people on the edge of starvation in Afghanistan now. In Petition to Rescind Tony Blair’s Knighthood Gets Hundreds of Thousands of Signatures, NYT, 14/22, Stephen Castle writes. We have Iraq in a terrible state now, nearly 20 years after the invasion. so the elevation of Tony Blair to a knighthood on New Year. Their sons, Jonathan and Jordan, rose to international fame as members of the boy band New Kids on the Block. Their first album, New Kids on the Block, was released in the spring of 1986. Petition launched to rescind Tony Blairs knighthood. Petition rescind knighthood gets hundreds thousands It eventually was certified as three-times platinum. ‘And I think it’s a kick in the teeth for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, and a kick in the teeth for all the people who protested against the war in Iraq and who have been proved right.
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