His decade in office left Britain “fairer, smarter, healthier, more modern and more at ease with itself”. He stood by the US over Iraq for good reasons, aware of the political cost. Petition to Rescind Tony Blair’s Knighthood Gets Hundreds of Thousands of Signatures LONDON By tradition, former British prime ministers are honored by Queen Elizabeth some years after leaving 10 Downing Street, so the elevation of Tony Blair to a knighthood on New Year’s Day could have been a routine event.
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He turned Labour’s noble aims into action: the minimum wage, tax credits, free nursery care, more doctors, more teachers. Neither side can admit that Blair was not just a good PM but a “great” one. The longest-serving Labour PM was named in the Queens New Years Honours. The Right can’t forgive him for trouncing them the Left can’t forgive him for allying with “the most dogged enemy of socialism: the voters”. A petition calling on Tony Blairs knighthood to be taken off him is approaching 200,000 signatures in just one day. But that’s not enough for his “haters”: he must also be a “mass murderer”, the “monster who introduced lying to the noble vocation of politics”. An online petition asking that former British Prime Minister Tony Blairs newly announced knighthood be rescinded has been signed by more than 146,000 people as of Sunday morning, with the goal of.
10, he has further damaged his reputation by advising foreign despots and scheming to overturn the Brexit referendum.īlair made mistakes as PM, said Stephen Daisley in The Spectator, such as introducing devolution and setting the arbitrary target for half of young people to attend university. 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. Worst of all, he took the UK into Iraq on “a false prospectus” – launching a war in which hundreds of thousands died, and which sent the region into a spiral of violence. He politicised the civil service by diverting power to “party political apparatchiks” he unleashed an immigration free-for-all in a “bid to reshape the electorate” to Labour’s advantage. His achievements in office – the Good Friday Agreement, independence for the Bank of England, civil partnerships – are far outweighed by the damage he caused. While this award is generally extended to every former PM, Blair is not worthy of it. The longest-serving Labour PM was named in the Queens New Years Honours list as a Knight Companion. Little wonder, said Andrew Pierce in the Daily Mail. More than 44,000 people have signed a petition to have Tony Blairs knighthood taken off him. ‘The delay to Tony Blair’s award could be a royal comment on his botched job’ RICHARD BURGON criticised today the decision to give former prime minister Tony Blair a knighthood, as the petition calling for it to be reversed neared one.
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