Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair MOSCOW, Jan 2 More than 100 thousand people in half a day signed a petition calling for the stripping of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair of the Order of the Garter, the highest order of chivalry in the country. Blair was previously awarded this order for his activities during his tenure as prime minister. The petition was posted on change.org in the afternoon in Saturday by the user as Angus Scott. As of 04.30 Moscow time on Sunday, the petition was signed by 104,873 people. «Tony Blair has caused irreparable damage to the constitution of the United Kingdom and the very structure of the nation's society. He is personally responsible for the deaths of a huge number of innocent civilians and participation in various conflicts. Only for this he owes Tony Blair is the man who least of all deserves any state award, «the petition says. The author of the petition calls on British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to ask Queen Elizabeth II to strip Blair of her knighthood. Blair served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1997-2007. He has been criticized on several occasions for the UK's invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
