![]() ![]() The only mystery is why it took so long for him to get one. 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. 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. 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”. 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”. Set up on Saturday (January 1), it calls for the. 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. The petition calling for Tony Blair to lose the knighthood awarded to him in the Queens New Years Honours is nearing 1,000,000 signatures. 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. Here Come the Artificial Intelligence Nutritionists. 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 Blair’s Knighthood Gets Hundreds of Thousands of Signatures. While this award is generally extended to every former PM, Blair is not worthy of it. Sir Tony commented on his appointment: It was a great privilege to serve as prime minister and I would like to thank all those who served alongside me. Little wonder, said Andrew Pierce in the Daily Mail. ‘The delay to Tony Blair’s award could be a royal comment on his botched job’. ![]()
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