(Be sure you confirm your signature after submitting the form, check your Inbox. If knighting Tony Blair makes you angry, please consider adding your name to the petition: A petition to rescind the honour has amassed hundreds of thousands of signatures in barely two days, and has been backed not just by politics junkies but also by innocuous pop culture figures such as Right Said Fred, the London-based band best known for ’90s hit ‘I’m Too Sexy’. While the West has barely bothered to count up the numbers of innocent civilians killed due to war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, the toll is at least several times higher than that suffered by all sides of the Yugoslav civil wars of the 90s combined. War Criminals receive knighthoods while those that exposed their crimes #JulianAssange languish in maximum security jail facing extradition and a 175 year sentence #FreeAssangeNOW Laura Kuenssberg Translator December 31, 2021 Petition to Rescind Tony Blair’s Knighthood Gets Hundreds of Thousands of Signatures Get link Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Other Apps JanuBy BY STEPHEN CASTLE from NYT World NYT. More than 400,000 signatures were left under a petition urging the UK prime minister to ask the queen to rescind the order in less than a day after it was launched. The former UK prime minister should be held accountable for war crimes instead, it says. Hundreds of thousands of people have signed an online petition calling for the removal of knighthood from Tony Blair. Rise Sir Tony!īREAKING: Tony Blair has been given a knighthood for killing a million innocent people in Iraq and Afghanistan Petition to strip Tony Blair of knighthood racks up 400,000 signatures. JanuNEWS, Share This: Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest Linkedin Whatsapp. One million Iraqis dead, three million dispossessed, a trail of blood to 7/7. Petition to Rescind Tony Blair’s Knighthood Gets Hundreds of Thousands of Signatures Daisy. The contempt in which Britain's elite holds the public has never been more eloquently expressed than in the decision to award Tony Blair the highest order of knighthood. Petition to Rescind Tony Blair’s Knighthood Gets Hundreds of Thousands of Signatures. The story has been picked up by ITV, Guardian, Daily Mail, Express, Metro and The Independent. The petition is on course to become one of the most widely signed on the Change. 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. While most of the media have focused on his military misadventures in Iraq and Afghanistan, Serbs remember the war crime which triggered all the others – the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia which killed thousands of civilians and left the economy in ruins. Petition to rescind Tony Blairs knighthood passes half a million signatures. Petition to Rescind Tony Blair’s Knighthood Gets Hundreds of Thousands of Signatures Written by BHFN on Janu. The decision prompted a massive public backlash with an online petition demanding the honour be rescinded exceeding 500,000 signatures. He is to receive the country’s highest honour, a knighthood, and will subsequently be known as Sir Tony Blair. The New Year Honours List includes former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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