PHOTOS: Iraq war architect Blair receives Britain’s highest knighthood

Former Labor Prime Minister Anthony Charles Linton Blair has been formally appointed a member of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, the oldest and most prestigious order of chivalry in England, despite more than a million people signing a petition demanding the honor be removed.

The Iraq War architect, who asked the press to call him “Sir Tony” instead of Sir Anthony, invested in the Garter Day parade at Windsor Castle on Monday, although the 96-year-old Queen did not attend the parade. BBC report.

Sir Tony Taking the UK’s highest award hasn’t been without controversy – perhaps unsurprising given the fact that he was voted the worst living Briton in 2003, when he was the strongest political position in the country.

More than 1,160,000 people signed a petition calling for the 69-year-old’s knighthood to be revoked before he took office, and the petition’s creator, Angus Scott, accused him of “irreparable damage to the same constitution of the United Kingdom and its fabric”. itself”. National Society” and be personally responsible for the deaths of countless innocent civilians and [servicemen] in various competitions.

Perhaps most embarrassingly, he sent British troops into the war in Iraq on the grounds that he had a weapon of mass destruction capable of hitting British soil in 45 minutes, which proved untrue.

Various anti-Sir Tony protesters also attended the parade: Scott urged people to “remind Blair that he would never wash blood from his hands,” and various anti-war activists regularly protested that the former prime minister was somehow likely.

Some even donned Tony Blair masks with fake blood and devil horns to clarify their views on the influential Labor Party, which has become so wealthy since leaving office.

However, he was notorious not only for his penchant for fake military adventures, but also for causing a huge surge in immigration, among other things.

Windsor, England-June 13: Anti-Blair demonstrators at Windsor Castle on June 13, 2022 in Windsor, England. Tony Blair, British Prime Minister from 1997 to 2007, is now a Knight Commander of the Order of the Garter. (Photo by Anthony Jones/Getty Images)