In an explanation in his petition, Mr Scott wrote: ‘Tony Blair caused irreparable damage to both the constitution of the United Kingdom and to the very fabric of the nation’s society. The appointment of Sir Tony in the Order of the Garter on Friday night also led to a petition being launched on by Angus Scott shortly after he was knighted which has now reached 350,000-plus signatures.įurious members of the public have rallied against his appointment and signed the petition since Friday. One million Iraqis dead, three million dispossessed, a trail of blood to 7/7. What a shameful day.’Īnother said: ‘The contempt in which Britain’s elite holds the public has never been more eloquently expressed than in the decision to award Tony Blair the highest order of knighthood. On Twitter, many made their feelings clear following the ennobling. Political commentator Liam Young wrote: ‘The man should be in the dock of The Hague. One military mother, Carol Valentine, told the Mirror that Sir Tony’s knighthood is the ‘ultimate insult’, after her son Simon was killed while he cleared land mines in Afghanistan in 2009.Īnd Hazel Hunt, whose son Richard died in Afghanistan, was pondering sending back the Elizabeth Cross that her family had received as a mark of protest.Ĭaroline Whitaker’s son Sergeant Gareth Thursby was shot dead by a rouge Afghan policeman in 2012 at a checkpoint in Helmand ProvinceĪnother military mother, Caroline Whitaker, who lost son Gareth after he was shot dead by an Afghanistan police officer in 2012 said she felt the establishment was ‘making a mockery’ of hers and other children’s deaths. John Smith, son of World War Two veteran and author Harry Leslie Smith, said giving the honour to Gordon Brown would have been ‘more appropriate’. Ms German added that, while the award has become convention, she does not see ‘justification for it at any time’. ‘And I think it’s a kick in the teeth for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, and a kick in the teeth for all the people who protested against the war in Iraq and who have been proved right.’ We have Iraq in a terrible state now, nearly 20 years after the invasion. ‘We have 8 million people on the edge of starvation in Afghanistan now. She told LBC radio: ‘I think it’s pretty incredible given that this year, we’ve seen the collapse of Afghanistan, which Tony Blair’s first major war in the war on terror. On Saturday, Lindsey German, convenor of the Stop the War Coalition, said Sir Tony’s knighthood was a ‘kick in the teeth for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan’. Anti-war protesters are seen massed in Hyde Park during a demonstration against war with Iraq in London on February 15, 2003
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