Tony Blair Knighted - Page 2

Margaret Pilkington · 03-01-2022, 08:46

If you feel that this knighthood is wrong…please sign the petition.
It may not make much difference, but it will show those who proposed this t*rd….what we think of their actions.

https://www.change.org/p/the-prime-m...share_intent=1

monkey hanger · 03-01-2022, 10:16

already did it but as you said its wasting out time.

cashman · 03-01-2022, 11:45

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

If you feel that this knighthood is wrong…please sign the petition.
It may not make much difference, but it will show those who proposed this t*rd….what we think of their actions.

https://www.change.org/p/the-prime-m...share_intent=1

it will not make any difference at all i think but thanks for posting it.

it makes me feel a bit better.

Less · 03-01-2022, 12:09

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Originally Posted by cashman

have to be honest i despise him and his wife even more than i despise thatcher and i did not think that would be possible. just shows lifes full of surprises.

Got to admit she may have been spiteful and vengeful against the miners but she was true to her own, he would **** on anyone to advance his own agenda.

Margaret Pilkington · 03-01-2022, 12:36

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Originally Posted by cashman

it will not make any difference at all i think but thanks for posting it.

it makes me feel a bit better.

I know it won’t make a jot of difference.
The Civil servants will see to that….it is they who make up the list that the Queen is given to rubber stamp.
I do not know If she had turned anyone down in the past.
This knighthood I’d for Chivalry and you could not call this man chivalrous by any stretch of the imagination.

While I know our signatures will have little effect…at least it make me feel like I have expressed my disgust at the situation.
This mans honour devalues every other person past and present who has been given recognition.

cashman · 03-01-2022, 12:47

she cannot turn anyone down for this award. FACT.check how long this award has gone on i think you may be surprised.

nearly 700 years i believe so their surely must be worse than Blair awarded it?

Margaret Pilkington · 03-01-2022, 13:16

I looked on the Royal Family Site and it said that the Queen has the sole right to confer honours.
However it did not say that she could refuse….but she does not choose who the recipients of honours are.
The civil servants provide the list of people they feel should be honoured.
Not sure if they also choose the category of honour too….although there are some honours which are reserved solely for military personnel.

Margaret Pilkington · 03-01-2022, 13:19

There might have been worse, but that doesn’t make it right.

The worse ones were not in my living memory…..

I think the only reason she has agreed is because there are other PM’s who cannot be honoured without this lump of slime getting his honour first.

cashman · 03-01-2022, 13:44

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

There might have been worse, but that doesn’t make it right.

The worse ones were not in my living memory…..

I think the only reason she has agreed is because there are other PM’s who cannot be honoured without this lump of slime getting his honour first.

that is exactly what i thought. some have had to wait longer cos of blair.

Less · 03-01-2022, 13:51

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Originally Posted by cashman

that is exactly what i thought. some have had to wait longer cos of blair.

How pathetic a bloody waiting list!
Really?
Surely these 'honourable' people didn't just wait around for their turn to be honourable? Makes no sense to make them wait now, if there are only so many per year then if you didn't make it that particular year, you should become void from the list until the next honourable thing you do in the future.

Margaret Pilkington · 03-01-2022, 17:29

The thing is all of these past prime ministers were well paid….went on to earn even more money from contacts made while in politics….go on after dinner speaking engagements…write books……it is just huge ego trip.

If that odious man had any morals at all (but we know from past experience he doesn’t know the meaning of the world) he would turn down this award because he knows that he has very little public support….but of course being a narcissist he has to take it.

Margaret Pilkington · 03-01-2022, 18:52

In the 700 years since the inception of this honour, 40 people have had the award removed.
Don’t ask me who or when, because that I do not know.

cashman · 03-01-2022, 19:35

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

In the 700 years since the inception of this honour, 40 people have had the award removed.
Don’t ask me who or when, because that I do not know.

removed by who is a good question i think?

Margaret Pilkington · 03-01-2022, 21:45

There is a committee called the Forfeiture Committee.
Fred Goodwin the Head of RBS had his knighthood rescinded, George Castledine too….he was head of the Nursing and Midwifery council.
Anthony Blunt….the spy….there are quite a few if you search for them….but all of them would have fallen under the scrutiny of the Forfeiture Committee, and it would be deemed their behaviour was unbecoming to the honour.

Well, that can certainly be said about Blair before he even gets it.
He should be on trial at The Hague for war crimes.

monkey hanger · 04-01-2022, 10:30

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

In the 700 years since the inception of this honour, 40 people have had the award removed.
Don’t ask me who or when, because that I do not know.

search and research the blair family tree. he may have a relative in the past with some vague action in the slave trade. that would certainly make him number 41 on the list.