

thousands signing a petition calling for the removal of Tony Blairs. Sir Tony has faced sustained criticism over the Iraq conflict.Ī report by Sir John Chilcot in 2016 found that the former prime minister overplayed evidence about Saddam Hussein's arsenal and found he presented the case for war based on "flawed" intelligence about Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction (WMD). ShOuld Tony Blair have received a knighthood from the Queen in the New Year honours. Petition to Rescind Tony Blair’s Knighthood Gets Hundreds of Thousands of Signatures Former British prime ministers, from left, Gordon Brown, Tony Blair and Sir John Major, in London in November. “As well as being Bushes poodle he is the devil incarnate,” another commented. Hes also known for the large scale sell off of British assets and institutions, the NHS, GP Surgeries, Schools, Police Stations, ambulance stations, fire stations etc. “For him to be honoured for treason is the most outrageous slap in the face for those who died for his glory,” one person wrote. Tony Blair is known for the war he started, killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people, based on a lie that was quite the opposite of the intelligence collected at the time. The longest-serving Labour PM was named in the Queen's New Year's Honours list.
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A number of people suggested that Blair should be done for war crimes, with one person going as far as to start a separate petition to see him face an international war crimes trial at The Hague. LONDON By custom, former British prime ministers are honored by Queen Elizabeth some years after leaving 10 Downing Avenue, so the elevation of Tony Blair to a knighthood on New Yr’s Day might have been a routine occasion. A petition calling on Tony Blair's knighthood to be taken off him is approaching 200,000 signatures in just one day.
