petition blairs knighthood gets hundreds thousands

My congratulations to Tony Blair on this recognition for his public service to our country.’ Of course, Current Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer, said: ‘The last Labour government delivered enduring change from the national minimum wage to the peace process in Northern Ireland. He was not wrong! The fallout from the decision to invade Iraq based on the Dodgy dossier carries the ghost of countless dead, who died on a decision based on a lie.Ī lie that destabilised entire regions, regions that almost a quarter of a century on are still in turmoil. Writing in the Observer, Tutu also suggests the controversial US and UK-led action to oust Saddam Hussein in 2003 created the backdrop for the civil war in Syria and a possible wider Middle East conflict involving Iran. Tutu, the Nobel peace prize winner and hero of the anti-apartheid movement, accused the former British and US leaders of lying about weapons of mass destruction and saying the invasion left the world more destabilised and divided “than any other conflict in history”. It was the same Late Archbishop Desmond Tutu that called for Tony Blair and George Bush to be hauled before the international criminal court in The Hague and delivered a damning critique of the physical and moral devastation caused by the Iraq war.

They have driven us to the edge of a precipice where we now stand – with the spectre of Syria and Iran before us.” Instead of recognising that the world we lived in, with increasingly sophisticated communications, transportations and weapons systems necessitated sophisticated leadership that would bring the global family together, the then-leaders of the US and UK fabricated the grounds to behave like playground bullies and drive us further apart. The most controversial name in the Queen’s New Year Honours list was the former Labour Prime Minister, the first and only person to date to lead the party to three consecutive general election victories that ended with a crushing defeat in 2010 Leaving the Blairites and New Labour in a political wilderness.īlair has long faced criticism for sending troops into Afghanistan and Iraq, a decision which culminated in a devastating report by Sir John Chilcot in 2016 which found he overplayed evidence about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction.ĭesmond Tutu declared: “The immorality of the United States and Great Britain’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003, premised on the lie that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, has destabilised and polarised the world to a greater extent than any other conflict in history. Petition to The Prime Minister Tony Blair to have his 'Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter' rescinded

Petition blairs knighthood gets hundreds thousands