Set up on Saturday (January 1), it calls for the. He spent the last year of his premiership trying to establish his legacy, and it was all pointless because his legacy, like it or not, was Iraq, and is Iraq, and will remain Iraq. The petition calling for Tony Blair to lose the knighthood awarded to him in the Queen's New Year's Honours is nearing 1,000,000 signatures. until the Twenty - fifth Day of March One dents : ' thousand eight hundred and. “His reputation for the moment is locked into the Iraq war. Bulke- It was moved, ' That the Petition of Thomas James 6. “It’s a fool’s errand,” said Steven Fielding, professor of political history at Nottingham University. The current prime minister, Boris Johnson, was not involved in the decision, his office said. Its head of policy and campaigns, Sam Grant, said vaccine passports could 'create a two-tier society where some people can access support and freedoms, while others are shut out - with the most. Dating back almost 700 years, the order is the oldest and most senior Order of Chivalry in Britain. The Islamic Centre of India began a petition campaign with the end result to be handing. There were protests in different parts of India over the knighthood, including one in Kanpur led by the AJ Fareedi Association denouncing Britain and chanting slogans against Rushdie. Blair became a member of the Order of the Garter, following an appointment made on New Year’s Eve by the queen. If Indonesia also gets angry it will contribute nothing.' Indian reaction. Instead, more than 600,000 people have signed an online petition asking that the honor be rescinded, illustrating how one of Britain’s most successful politicians remains a divisive figure, never forgiven by his critics for taking the country to war in Iraq…. It calls on the Prime Minister to petition the Queen to rescind the honour. In “Petition to Rescind Tony Blair’s Knighthood Gets Hundreds of Thousands of Signatures,” NYT, 14/22, Stephen Castle writes:īy 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. More than 530,000 people have signed petition against Tony Blair's knighthood. In England’s pastures green, where Jews now need to watch their backs. ![]() Blair was made a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. Petition to Rescind Tony Blair’s Knighthood Gets Hundreds of Thousands of Signatures Health & Wellness On 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. Would have agreed that what I write makes, very sadly, sense A petition to revoke the knighthood recently awarded to Tony Blair has reached 1m signatures in just six days. Ordered, That the respective Knights and Burgesses do. Supporting such an allegation, but am sure Lord Sacks He accordingly did prefer a Petition, directed To A Letter from the Committee of Salop of 29. I’m biased, and don’t have a shred of evidence
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