For this alone he should be held accountable for war crimes. "Tony Blair is the least deserving person of any public honour, particularly anything awarded by Her Majesty the Queen. "It was a great privilege to serve as Prime Minister and I would like to thank all those who served alongside me in politics, public service and all parts of our society, for their dedication and commitment to our country.” "We petition the Prime Minister to petition Her Majesty to have this honour removed."įollowing the announcement of the knighthood, the Tony Blair Foundation tweeted: “It is an immense honour to be appointed Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, and I am deeply grateful to Her Majesty the Queen.
Since the second half of the last century, five other prime ministers have been knighted, including Sir Tony's predecessor Sir John Major, Sir Edward Heath - in office 1970 to 1974, Sir Alec Douglas-Home - in office 1963 to 1964, Sir Anthony Eden - in office 1955 to 1957 and Sir Winston Churchill - in office for the second time from 1951 to 1955.Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Telegram Share on Reddit Share on EmailĪwards and honours bestowed by States or private committees, republican or monarchical, are bound to be corrupted by considerations of hypocrisy, racketeering and general, chummy disposition.
#Rescind tony knighthood gets thousands signatures update#.president, has also received it for serving humanity in the Middle East and beyond. No matter how controversial and questionable the growing list of Nobel Prize winners gets, I imagine that the day is not that far when we hear news of "Sir" Tony Blair being awarded a Nobel Peace Prize – after all, Barack Obama, the former U.S. Throughout my student years at leading British universities, I have learned how Western governments mastered propaganda tactics and expertly used political language to disseminate their own versions of events, wars and conflicts to sell them to their public as a noble cause of fighting cruelty and bringing peace and democracy in faraway places. One major study also reported in The Guardian revealed how "Churchill’s policies contributed to the 1943 Bengal famine," remembered as a forgotten holocaust that killed "5 million people." That’s not the whole story of mighty Britain’s rule. The same year, Churchill also received Nobel Prize in Literature "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values." So Churchill was honored for his service to promoting "human values." Hence, the event resulted in a misleading case of false information that lead to the destruction of the whole country.Ī list of studies authored by non-Muslim and Western authors and a stream of arguments forwarded by leading intellectuals in the West have dismissed the Western discourses on the Iraq War and called it a crime against humanity.īefore Blair, Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II on April 24, 1953. The Iraq War did not happen the way Tony Blair and his associates portrayed to the media and the public. At what cost? It doesn’t matter for those in power as long as their interests are well-protected.Įvidently, events leading to wars and conflicts do not happen suddenly but are properly planned ahead of time. Obviously, Sir Blair has been honored for his remarkable services for making Britain glorious again. The story of knighthoodĪ long list of leading academic studies, research papers, newspaper articles, editorials, documentaries and films show aspects of the Iraq War that the British politician George Galloway has termed as "a pack of lies."Įven though Blair had admitted to playing a notorious role in the killing, displacing and disabling millions of innocent Iraqis and destroying their prosperous country on the pretext of fake (arguably manufactured) information on "weapons of mass destruction," while at that time the attacking nations, including Britain and America, themselves had deadly atomic weapons. But that’s in theory because, in reality, the British people may be disappointed once again. Thousands of British people have also taken to Twitter to debate on it.īritain presents itself as a democratic country, meaning that the will of people wins because in a democracy people have the authority. Recent YouGov survey results revealed that 41% of the British people strongly disapprove of "Tony Blair being given a knighthood" in comparison to only 3% who strongly approve of it.
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