Tony Blair: Petition to block knighthood tops 700,000 signatures

[WTFH]

OK, I agree. But the highest honour available? Could have given him a peerage, that would have had the same effect.

Why give him a peerage when you can sell them for £3milion?

[NotAllThere]

A petition on change.org so utterly utterly meaningless. Was it not possible to put in on the government one?

Blair may have involved the UK in an unnecessary war, but he did authorise the expansion of the Rules of Engagement in Sierra Leone - he's a bit of a hero there.

[mattster]

A petition on change.org so utterly utterly meaningless. Was it not possible to put in on the government one?

Blair may have involved the UK in an unnecessary war, but he did authorise the expansion of the Rules of Engagement in Sierra Leone - he's a bit of a hero there.

The Blair government did a lot of very good things, and one very bad one - and I was on the march against it with at least a million others. Despite that, still the best government and governence that I have lived under - it's not even close. It's worth remembering that the Conservative party were also very pro the Iraq war at the time - only 2 Conservative MPs voted against, versus nearly a quarter of the parliamentary Labour party.

[SueEllen]

A petition on change.org so utterly utterly meaningless. Was it not possible to put in on the government one?

Blair may have involved the UK in an unnecessary war, but he did authorise the expansion of the Rules of Engagement in Sierra Leone - he's a bit of a hero there.

Apparently lots of Kosovan Albanians around the ages of 21/22 have the name "Tonibler"

https://www.newstatesman.com/world/2...ovan-albanians

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...blair-tonibler

[ladymuck]

Thatcher got the same gong...

[SueEllen]

Thatcher got the same gong...

"You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning!"

[AtW]

A petition on change.org so utterly utterly meaningless.

All online petitions are.

[d000hg]

A petition on change.org so utterly utterly meaningless. Was it not possible to put in on the government one?

Equally meaningless, especially in this case when it's not a decision that the government was involved in or - AFAIK - has any authority to override.

[SueEllen]

A petition on change.org so utterly utterly meaningless. Was it not possible to put in on the government one?

Probably not hence it appearing on change.org

[Lance]

The Blair government did a lot of very good things, and one very bad one - and I was on the march against it with at least a million others. Despite that, still the best government and governence that I have lived under - it's not even close. It's worth remembering that the Conservative party were also very pro the Iraq war at the time - only 2 Conservative MPs voted against, versus nearly a quarter of the parliamentary Labour party.

As was 70% of the population at the time, according to the polls at the time.