These appointments are offered in the Queen’s gift, without advice from the Government, Wales Online reports. The longest-serving Labour Prime Minister was named in the Queen's New Year's Honours list 2022 as a 'Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter,' the oldest and most senior British Order of Chivalry. Join the Stop the War protest at the annual Garter Day procession in Windsor on 13 June, and let the world know there is only one court that Blair should be attending, and it’s not the royal one.More than 145,000 people have signed a petition calling for Tony Blair's knighthood to be taken off him. Our movement acts as a constant reminder that Britain says “not in my name” to foreign war. Fifteen years after leaving office, Blair is still one of the most detested PMs in British history. Blair can walk no street, speak at no event, nor be awarded any accolade without the anti-war movement following and haunting him. In Blair’s case, this couldn’t be further from the truth. Usually as time passes, the more forgiving the public tends to be of former leaders. With no accountability it is easy to see why a YouGov survey published earlier this year, found that 63% of Brits disapproved of his knighthood. Despite Blair’s notorious and deadly foreign policy, history is being repeated.īlair has never apologised nor sought absolution for these crimes, not even after the Chilcot Inquiry that confirmed he is a pathological liar. Now in 2022, Britain has another lying PM keen to promote war, this time in Ukraine, in his Churchillian guise to keep himself in office and in the US President’s good books. And, lying to the public is not “just ” what happens in politics either. Serving the US war machine is not “just ” what happens in politics. Waging war is not “just ” what happens in politics. Responding to the levels of anger, Blair said: “The best thing is just to accept that of course there will be people who strongly oppose it and detest me for various reasons, and this is just what happens in politics.” One said: “Our misery is compounded knowing that the man responsible is being honoured.” Mothers of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan wrote begging the Queen to rescind the knighthood. Clearly the British honours system is anything but honourable. Blair is to be knighted by the Queen with the highest honour. But when Blair ignored the people on the streets, he taught us that the political establishment has an extraordinary ability to try and silence truth.ĭespite the disastrous legacy of Blair’s foreign policy few lessons have been learnt. Millions marched against Britain’s involvement in the Iraq war. Those lies provoked the largest demonstration in British history. Under the false pretence that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, and fuelled by false revelations that they could be deployed in just 45 minutes, British troops headed to Iraq. So desperate to please the United States, he actively lied over and over again, to bang the drums of war. The British public has not forgotten the Iraq War, proven by the fact 1.2 million people signed a petition earlier this year to stop the royal process in its tracks.īlair wanted to go to war and didn’t let facts stand in his way. John Pilger: Tony Blair must be prosecuted