{"id":1196762,"date":"2022-01-07T11:49:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T16:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1196762"},"modified":"2022-01-07T11:49:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T16:49:33","slug":"blair-knighthood-petition-reaches-million-signatures-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blair-knighthood-petition-reaches-million-signatures-milestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Blair Knighthood Petition Reaches Million Signatures Milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblair-knighthood-petition-reaches-million-signatures-milestone%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1196762&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1338660197-e1641572155258-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A million people have now taken the time to add their name to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/the-prime-minister-tony-blair-to-have-his-knight-companion-of-the-most-noble-order-of-the-garter-rescinded\">petition<\/a> calling for a senior knighthood conferred on former Prime Minister, anti-Brexit campaigner, and warmonger Tony Blair to be cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>The petition, started on New Year\u2019s Day, crossed the million-signature threshold on Friday afternoon just before 1630 UK time. Blair\u2019s admission to the Order of the Garter \u2014 the oldest and most senior royal order of chivalry \u2014 was announced by Buckingham Palace on the New Year Honours Lists.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Breitbart London understands that while Blair is entitled to call himself a member of the Garter with its attendant title \u2014&nbsp;Sir Anthony \u2018Tony\u2019 Charles Lynton Blair KG \u2014 the actual investiture ceremony takes place on \u2018Garter Day\u2019 at Windsor Castle in June, in the presence of the other Garter Knights.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The creator of the petition to revoke the Knighthood from Blair before he is even officially sworn in, Angus Scott, doesn\u2019t mince his words in supporting his campaign. He wrote of Blair:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Tony Blair caused irreparable damage to both the constitution of the United Kingdom and to the very fabric of the nation\u2019s society. He was personally responsible for causing the death of countless innocent, civilian lives and servicement in various conflicts. For this alone he should be held accountable for war crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Blair is the least deserving person of any public honour, particularly anything awarded by Her Majesty the Queen.<\/p>\n<p>We petition the Prime Minister to petition Her Majesty to have this honour removed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-59866084\">Speaking to the BBC<\/a> earlier this week on creating the petition, Scott said: \u201cI\u2019ve never done a petition before in my life. It took me quite a while to work out how to get it set up\u2026&nbsp;He\u2019s been out of office for more than 14 years, but an awful lot of people have very strong feelings about Tony Blair\u2019s record, and they have to be heeded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart London <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/01\/07\/petition-strip-tony-blairs-knighthood-nears-one-million-signatures\/\">reported of Sir Anthony as the petition raced towards the million-mark on Friday<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The 68-year-old\u2019s decision to plunge the country into war in search of what turned out to be highly elusive \u201cWeapons of Mass Destruction\u201d in 2003 famously brought<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=10153870520641939\"> a million citizens onto the streets to oppose him<\/a>&nbsp;in what was believed to be Britain\u2019s biggest-ever political demonstration \u2014 although \u2018people power\u2019 proved to be no obstacle to him getting his way then and may prove equally fruitless now, given the establishment\u2019s silence on the petition.<\/p>\n<p>Blair, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/i-was-a-student-trotskyist-says-tony-blair-pvtv08fnr\">youthful admirer<\/a> of communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky \u2014 a key player in the Vladimir Lenin regime which assassinated his own country\u2019s monarch, his wife, and young children \u2014 was made a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter in the New Year Honours Lists, after a wait of almost 15 years following his departure from office.<\/p>\n<p>Insiders had long suggested that the Queen, who unlike with most honours has a personal say in who is appointed to the Garter, had been resisting appointing Blair to the order, as most ex-prime ministers have been\u2026&nbsp;Conservative commentators have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/calvinrobinson\/status\/1477316308391936007\">speculated<\/a>, however, that the Queen felt obliged to award the honour to Blair to maintain her official appearance of neutrality, and to ensure that other ex-prime ministers such as Gordon Brown, David Cameron, and Theresa May can be honoured in future without creating the appearance of partiality.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Petition to Strip Tony Blair\u2019s Knighthood Nears One Million Signatures <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ermMCnryzI\">https:\/\/t.co\/ermMCnryzI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1479430115394306053?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A million people have now taken the time to add their name to a petition calling for a senior knighthood conferred on former Prime Minister, anti-Brexit campaigner, and warmonger Tony &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1196762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}