Arise Sir Tony (Blair)

[AmateurAgitator]

Why the fuck would the Queen appoint that vile man as KG, and why now?

Vile women tend to be fond of vile men.

Why does this have to be explained?

 

[Puddy_Tat]

I'm led to believe that you can call yourself pretty much what you want to as long as its not for fraudulent purposes

there are / were a lot of jazz / calypso / ska / reggae musicians who gave themselves a title - duke ellington, lord kitchener, prince buster, sir collins (for example)

i encountered someone once who was given 'prince' as his first name by his parents, and when doing some family research (although ending up with a view that he happened to have the same surname rather than being a relation) someone whose first name was 'major' (which could have caused some confusion when he got called up in the 1914 war and didn't make it above the rank of private)

I signed my Mum up to Waitrose as a Dowager, I always laugh when she gets stuff in the post from them now.

Interesting stats. I note that Charles Grey, the 2nd Earl Grey is the second most popular prime minister of all time amongst millenials.

on account of his political abilities, or his tea?

 

[teuchter]

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Both milipedes ranked higher than Blair. I though D Miliband would be lower for some reason.

I didn't see any Milibands getting elected as PM multiple times.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

What makes it strange beyond belief is that it is an appointment as KG. This is solely in the monarch's gift.
Why the fuck would the Queen appoint that vile man as KG, and why now?

It is limited to 24 people (plus royal supernumeraries) so there is an element of dead people's shoes, but there have been vacancies before now.

Completely inexplicable.

She is paying for a man accused of raping a child to have lawyers try and worm out of it whilst simultaneously repeatedly attacking the victim. In light of that bunging a tory war criminal a gong is small fry.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Anyway, if he's going to be a knight will they stick him in a suit of armour, equip him with a sword and drop him off in the middle of Syria to sort out the mess he created in that region?

 

[spudulike]

Sir Tony takes the "i" out of "arise"

 

[Johnny Vodka]

I think it's a great move by the Queen. I expect she's having a little laugh about it now. It'll wind up extremists at both ends of the political spectrum, while most sensible people just recognise he was the most competent and popular PM we've had in ages, and don't care about the honours system anyway.

Probably disliked as much as Thatcher, for his betrayal of the left.

 

[strung out]

I agree with John Terry

 

[DaveCinzano]

Anyway, if he's going to be a knight will they stick him in a suit of armour, equip him with a sword and drop him off in the middle of the sea

Improved that for you

 

[Sasaferrato]

She is paying for a man accused of raping a child to have lawyers try and worm out of it whilst simultaneously repeatedly attacking the victim. In light of that bunging a tory war criminal a gong is small fry.

Tell me, if it was your child, what would you do?

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

I didn't see any Milibands getting elected as PM multiple times.

Thank heaven for small mercies.

 

[AmateurAgitator]

Tell me, if it was your child, what would you do?

The right thing.

 

[MickiQ]

Interesting stats. I note that Charles Grey, the 2nd Earl Grey is the second most popular prime minister of all time amongst millenials.

I think this poll says a lot more about the mindset of people who respond to YouGov polls than it does about the popularity or otherwise of PM's I find it very hard to believe that Millennials have a meaningful vierwpoint on someone who has been dead for more than 200 years.

 

[Sasaferrato]

there are / were a lot of jazz / calypso / ska / reggae musicians who gave themselves a title - duke ellington, lord kitchener, prince buster, sir collins (for example)

i encountered someone once who was given 'prince' as his first name by his parents, and when doing some family research (although ending up with a view that he happened to have the same surname rather than being a relation) whose first name was 'major' (which could have caused some confusion when he got called up in the 1914 war and didn't make it above the rank of private)







on account of his political abilities, or his tea?

Army rank 'outranks' any civilian 'rank'. So if a Private, then it would be Pte The Duke of Bollocks.

 

[Pickman's model]

Army rank 'outranks' any civilian 'rank'. So if a Private, then it would be Pte The Duke of Bollocks.

The denizens of York altho not at all keen on prince andrew still prefer him not to be referred to as the Duke of Bollocks which they feel, rightly or wrongly, reflects on them

 

[brogdale]

Late to this 'party'...but have we all considered how Blair's all too frequent platforms on our news media will hence forth be made even more unpalatable when they introduce the criminal as "Sir" Tony Blair.

 

[Sprocket.]

Wrong thread.

 

[Pickman's model]

Late to this 'party'...but have we all considered how Blair's all too frequent platforms on our news media will hence forth be made even more unpalatable when they introduce the criminal as "Sir" Tony Blair.

Despite his knighthood no one refers to Winston Churchill as Sir Winston. Admirers of the bloodthirsty war leader should therefore demand Tony Blair's honorific be dropped

 

[brogdale]

Despite his knighthood no one refers to Winston Churchill as Sir Winston. Admirers of the bloodthirsty war leader should therefore demand Tony Blair's honorific be dropped

Trouble is, it's all too easy to imagine the fawning scum of the b'cast media introducing the monster with a oleaginous, chummy "Sir Tone"; they'll love it and he'll give one of those knowing smirk/grins to confirm that he's the straight sort of ordinary guy that can take a little jokey stuff. Vom

 

[surreybrowncap]

Interesting stats. I note that Charles Grey, the 2nd Earl Grey is the second most popular prime minister of all time amongst millenials.

 

[Pickman's model]

Trouble is, it's all too easy to imagine the fawning scum of the b'cast media introducing the monster with a oleaginous, chummy "Sir Tone"; they'll love it and he'll give one of those knowing smirk/grins to confirm that he's the straight sort of ordinary guy that can take a little jokey stuff. Vom

It marks his admission to the ranks of unlikely elder statesmen along the likes of Richard Milhous Nixon

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Tell me, if it was your child, what would you do?

There is a line, child sex abuse is beyond it for me, I would not support them.

 

[nogojones]

Tell me, if it was your child, what would you do?

Ground him and stop his pocket money

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

Let him stand tall beside the royal nonces and nonce enablers like the scum that he is.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Army rank 'outranks' any civilian 'rank'. So if a Private, then it would be Pte The Duke of Bollocks.

I don't know how much soldiers' first names came in to things in the 1914 era, or for that matter whether he actually used 'Major' as his first name, or whether he went by his middle name.

although thinking about it, more confusion could have been caused if ancestors of a 1990s british PM had been in the army...

 

[Carvaged]

I'm wondering if they've yet considered giving him the rank of Field Marshall as well for his contributions overseas

His Grace the Field Marshall Lord Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair KG KPMG JPM GSG of the Order of the Knights of the Round Table of the King's Bedpan has a certain je ne sais quoi to it...

 

[Pickman's model]

I'm wondering if they've yet considered giving him the rank of Field Marshall as well for his contributions overseas

His Grace the Field Marshall Lord Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair KG KPMG JPM GSG of the Order of the Knights of the Round Table of the King's Bedpan has a certain je ne sais quoi to it...

He has already been named turd chaser to the queen's hounds

 

[Pickman's model]

She is paying for a man accused of raping a child to have lawyers try and worm out of it whilst simultaneously repeatedly attacking the victim. In light of that bunging a tory war criminal a gong is small fry.

Word reaches me that Tony Blair was unhappy that Jimmy savile had a knighthood and he didn't

 

[splonkydoo]

Arise Sir Tony and go now, and go to Grytviken,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean-rows will you have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

 

[AmateurAgitator]

I think it's a great move by the Queen. I expect she's having a little laugh about it now. It'll wind up extremists at both ends of the political spectrum, while most sensible people just recognise he was the most competent and popular PM we've had in ages, and don't care about the honours system anyway.

I hope you're not saying that Blair isn't an extremist because that is clearly not the case.