Arise Sir Tony (Blair)

[T & P]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/politics/2021/dec/31/tony-blair-to-be-given-most-senior-knighthood-in-new-year-honours-list

What the actual fuck?

 

[Badgers]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/politics/2021/dec/31/tony-blair-to-be-given-most-senior-knighthood-in-new-year-honours-list

What the actual fuck?

 

[8ball]

What the actual fuck?

Services to the weapons of mass destruction industry?

 

[Epona]

That link isn't actually taking me to anything

 

[8ball]

That link isn't actually taking me to anything

More links will be available shortly.

 

[shifting gears]

Peak 2021

 

[Puddy_Tat]

try

Tony Blair to be given most senior knighthood in new year honours list

The former prime minister will be made Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter by the Queen

www.theguardian.com

 

[ElizabethofYork]

Fucks sake.

 

[strung out]

Who gives a fuck? It's hardly a surprise that centrist establishment arse licker in chief is getting an honour, is it?

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

Whose idea was this? Why? Why now?

 

[tommers]

Never realised there were grades of knighthood.

 

[eatmorecheese]

lol

 

[Dystopiary]

Fucking fuming about this. Creepy war criminal bastard should be given a very long stretch inside and nothing else. Yuk, hearing the BBC sycophants refer to him as "Sir Tony" is going to be nauseating.

 

[spanglechick]

Seriously- is this a surprise? They made Thatch a Baroness.

 

[Sue]

Tbh I thought he'd already got one. I mean John Major did a while ago so not sure why anyone's surprised/outraged really.

 

[T & P]

Whose idea was this? Why? Why now?

Once enough time has elapsed since a former PM ends their premiership, party lines disappear. Scratching each other’s backs I guess. I actually wouldn’t be surprised if twenty years from now a Labour government knighted Boris fucking Johnson.

 

[Carvaged]

 

[Steel Icarus]

twenty years from now a Labour government

lol

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Tbh I thought he'd already got one. I mean John Major did a while ago so not sure why anyone's surprised/outraged really.

How many civilians did Major slaughter?

 

[Nine Bob Note]

The Queen is head of a church, surely she could at least name a few saints in her death-throes?

 

[Carvaged]

Arise Lord Sir Baron Duchess Dowager Tony Blair IV Esq. of the Guts for Garters

 

[strung out]

Once enough time has elapsed since a former PM ends their premiership, party lines disappear. Scratching each other’s backs I guess. I actually wouldn’t be surprised if twenty years from now a Labour government knighted Boris fucking Johnson.

The queen gave him this one, it wasn't anything to do with the Tories.

 

[T & P]

lol

Yes, I thought of that as I posted it…

 

[JimW]

This has seriously undermined my faith in the integrity of the honours system and indeed our entire political establishment

 

[Sue]

How many civilians did Major slaughter?

I've no idea. Is there a certain number above/below which knighthoods are acceptable or not?

 

[Mr.Bishie]

I've no idea. Is there a certain number above/below which knighthoods are acceptable or not?

Maybe Major starved more working class folk than I thought.

 

[keybored]

Whose idea was this? Why? Why now?

People who can't read the room or don't care either way. I can quite honestly say I've only ever interacted with one single person who had a good word to say about him. And that was on these boards.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Never realised there were grades of knighthood.

there's a whole convoluted order of precedence

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

People who can't read the room or don't care either way. I can quite honestly say I've only ever interacted with one single person who had a good word to say about him. And that was on these boards.

Yeah, but is it Johnson's idea, or Starmer, or her maj, or some committee?

 

[Steel Icarus]

And he was in a perfect position for this opinion.