Sir Tony Blair

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So 700,000 don't want him knighted, that leaves nearly 65,000,000 that are ok, the majority wins doesn't it
Regardless, it's the Queen's choice so what say should we have?
 
Are you expecting the entire population to sign a petition that will have zero impact?
 
He's a smug arse who screwed Iraq and the middle East that eventually gave rise to Isis.

Yet he goes around preaching, total arse I'm my opinion.
 
It seems an honour that is given to every ex Prime Minister, so because of that I assume he should have it. However, there is a wider debate about there actually being these sorts of honours in the first place.
 
I don't personally think that Tony Blair did anything worthy of a knighthood, but it is tradition..

Of course, nobody likes tradition these days, I am waiting for the formal book burnings and the legal requirement to wear specific clothing, have government approved haircuts etc.. But that's not a conversation for this thread.

Should Blair get a knighthood.. No
Should the honours system be abolished.. also No.
 
I used to think that you had to have done something worthy of being honoured, apparently not.
 
andicole0 said:
So 700,000 don't want him knighted, that leaves nearly 65,000,000 that are ok, the majority wins doesn't it
Regardless, it's the Queen's choice so what say should we have?
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Flawed logic. On that basis we wouldn't have left the EU, as under 24% voted for Brexit.

Queen's choice - we can't do much about it. I don't think he deserves one after the Iraq debacle.
 
One of the best spitting image puppets in a long time.
I don't get the hate for his taking us to GW 2, he acted on his advisor's knowledge Superguns and WMDs and gas all over the place .. lol America's most loyal lapdog.

The birth of the nanny state, wonderful times.
The bankrupting of the economy and his coconspirator destroying what was left after.
Happy times.
Cant wait for the next labour government.
 
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andicole0 said:
So 700,000 don't want him knighted, that leaves nearly 65,000,000 that are ok, the majority wins doesn't it
Regardless, it's the Queen's choice so what say should we have?
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Is it really her choice though, i suspect the Royal advisors make a case for and very strongly push for certain people every year and even what honours they should have.

Before giving her a CBE, the queen probably would not have be able to pick out Laura Kenny in a room containing Laura and two random women.
 
chroniclard said:
Best PM we have had in my lifetime. :D
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It's certainly been downhill since.

Brown gets a lot of the credit tho, they were basically a duo rather than just Blair on his own. Watched some snippets of the Blair/Brown documentary on the Beeb, and they basically credit Brown with bringing the world together to recover from the financial crisis.

But since Blair we've had... Milliband/Cameron, Corbyn/May, and now Johnson/that personality vacuum whose name I can never remember.
 
FoxEye said:
It's certainly been downhill since.

Brown gets a lot of the credit tho, they were basically a duo rather than just Blair on his own. Watched some snippets of the Blair/Brown documentary on the Beeb, and they basically credit Brown with bringing the world together to recover from the financial crisis.

But since Blair we've had... Milliband/Cameron, Corbyn/May, and now Johnson/that personality vacuum whose name I can never remember.
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You could argue that the succes of a prime minister depends on how the country as left by the previous prime minister. I also felt, like another poster here, that the best time I remember was with Tnoy Blair as PM, but was he just riding on the coattails of the previous conservative government? I don't have the answer to that.

I don't think he should be knighted, but he was never charged for his alleged war crimes so in the eyes of the world he was, in many ways, a successful PM.
 
dirtychinchilla said:
You could argue that the succes of a prime minister depends on how the country as left by the previous prime minister. I also felt, like another poster here, that the best time I remember was with Tnoy Blair as PM, but was he just riding on the coattails of the previous conservative government?
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His policies are what were important. He changed working conditions, education, and human rights for the better. He introduced so much that people take for granted today. It was a rare time where a politician actually did what they said they would do for the people rather than his rich mates (not saying he still didnt earn a fair chunk btw). In many ways its a shame it got tainted with war, as he would no doubt be remembered as one of the best if it wasnt for that.
 
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