Garcia, who, when asked if he would still attempt an arrest on the former prime minister, replied: “One-hundred, percent I would do it again. “I think the good things Tony Blair did for this country shouldn’t detract from the crimes that he committed and how we view them,” added Mr. Garcia, a D.J., who is unimpressed by arguments that Iraq should not detract from Mr.
“I think it is a bit of a disgrace that the queen is looking to knight him,” said Mr. The decision to make Tony Blair a Sir has been met with anger by many on social media, as the former Prime Minister was branded a 'war criminal', with more than 25,000 signing a petition to block. Blair was dining, attempted a citizens’ arrest on the former prime minister, alleging war crimes. He's 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. Among the signatories of the petition is Twiggy Garcia, who, while working part-time in a restaurant in 2014 where Mr. 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. Blair, and for some of his critics, it probably never will.
Lied about WMD’s and destabilised the Middle East resulting in turmoil and thousands of deaths of its citizens and hundreds of military deaths. He took us into wars that had nothing to do with us. That time has does not yet seem to have arrived for Mr. Michael Jameson started this petition to UK Government. Professor Fielding said that, historically, it is not uncommon for successful prime ministers to suffer big drops in popularity after relinquishing power, and it has often been decades before their records are reassessed more evenhandedly. Bush in a war in Iraq that became steadily more unpopular in Britain. That sentiment reflects the extent to which the legacy of the opposition Labour Party’s most electorally successful recent leader has been defined by his staunch support for the United States and President George W. Blair, 68, was “personally responsible” for causing the deaths of countless civilians and service members in “various conflicts,” adding that “he should be held accountable for war crimes.” The petition, which has no legal force, says Mr. Instead, more than 600,000 people have signed an online petition asking that the honor be rescinded, illustrating how one of Britain’s most successful politicians remains a divisive figure, never forgiven by his critics for taking the country to war in Iraq. The only mystery is why it took so long for him to get one.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. 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.
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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. While the petition has garnered hundreds of thousands of signatures on. 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”. More than 500,000 people have signed a petition calling for Tony Blair to be stripped of his knighthood. 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”. 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. 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. Petition to Rescind Tony Blairs Knighthood Gets Hundreds of Thousands of Signatures/Nearly 15 years after he left office, prime ministers support for Iraq. While this award is generally extended to every former PM, Blair is not worthy of it. Little wonder, said Andrew Pierce in the Daily Mail.
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