‘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. We have Iraq in a terrible state now, nearly 20 years after the invasion. ‘We have eight million people on the edge of starvation in Afghanistan now. 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. 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. The last Labour Prime Minister was made a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter The. Petition to Rescind Tony Blair’s Knighthood Gets Hundreds of Thousands of Signatures JanuBy BY STEPHEN CASTLE from NYT World Share Get link Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Other Apps Labels World. ‘One million Iraqis dead, three million disposed, a trail of blood to 7/7. Petition launched to rescind Tony Blairs knighthood. 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. Journalist Richard Medhurst wrote on Twitter that Mr Blair was a ‘war criminal’ who ‘lied about WMDs’. 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’. However, Carol Valentine, whose son was killed while clearing landmines in Afghanistan in 2009, described the honour as the ‘ultimate insult’.
‘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. 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.
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