![]() A Freedom of Information request by The Sunday Times in 2012 revealed that Blair’s government considered knighting Syria’s brutal President Bashar al-Assad, the butcher of democratic uprisings within the country.īut in reality as Lindsey German, convenor of the Stop the War Coalition, said – quoted approvingly in the Daily Mail for once – Blair’s knighthood was a “kick in the teeth for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan”. Blair would hardly be the first untried imperialist war criminal to be so honoured.įurthermore, Blair himself apparently believes that this is what knighthoods are for. After all, most prime ministers get peerages, and knighthoods have no political power attached. ![]() The Labour front bench sees no problem with Blair’s knighthood. And people have not forgotten: according to a poll, the decision to honour the former Labour prime minister is supported by just 14% of the public, with 63% against. It’s just a shame that the newspaper – and many others – were not so rigorous in exposing the fraudulent basis for Blair’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan when they were launched.Īround two million people marched against the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Warming to the theme, the Mail was quick to emphasise Blair’s hypocrisy for accepting a knighthood after leading the charge to strip former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe of his. In contrast to Sir Keir Starmer, who said Blair “deserves the honour”, one Labour MP, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Daily Mail: “I just think it’s ridiculous he’s been given a knighthood – he’s an untried war criminal.” Furious soldiers – and the relatives of those killed in Iraq – are reported to be ready to send their medals back in disgust. Over a million people have now signed a petition calling for the award of a knighthood to Tony Blair to be revoked.
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