The politician suspects that it was Prince Charles who was responsible for persuading the Queen to ennoble the war criminal. Galloway argues that by planning to invest Blair with the highest possible royal award, the system has stooped to a new low. Insofar as the order of the garter is concerned, both Neville Chamberlain and Harold Macmillan refused to accept it. Forster, David Hockney, Aldous Huxley, Rudyard Kipling, Peter O’Toole, Harold Pinter, George Bernard Shaw and Vaughan Williams. Notable figures include Frank Auerbach, Alan Bennett, David Bowie, Danny Boyle, Michael Faraday, E.M. The veritable list of people who have rejected a gong is a long one.
Indeed, in paraphrasing The Marx Brothers, any kind of club that would have somebody like Blair as a member, is not one that any self-respecting person would want to join. For many others, however, it barely comes a surprise that an honours system that is so out of kilter with the British public mood, should honour a servile establishment figure like Blair in this way. It was therefore no surprise to learn that Galloway was apoplectic when he heard that Blair was going to be knighted, ‘Sir Tony Blair’ as part of an exclusive membership to a New Year’s Honours Club. These facets represent the three ‘killings’ in the film’s title.Īrguably, nobody is more qualified to comment on the legacy of Blair than Galloway who, along with many other political activists including two million people on the streets of London, fought unsuccessfully to try to stop Blair’s illegal invasion of Iraq. In his 2016 documentary, The Killing$ of Tony Blair, George Galloway highlights how the former PM destroyed the Labour party, engaged in war crimes that resulted in a million dead Iraqi civilians and enriched himself since leaving office in 2007.
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