Why Did Tony Blair Get Honoured With The Garter?

[Stargazer]

Do all ex PM's get given it?

[dannyk13]

Apparently not:-
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/brown-cameron-could-now-knighted-25846290

[douglas9401]

Because he already had the matching bra and panties?

[maggiebee]

BA to douglas!

[sandyRoe]

It's in the gift of ER. She must think he's done the state some service.

[Peter Pedant]

// twenty-four knights chosen in recognition of their work. Knights of the Garter are chosen personally by the Sovereign to honour those who have held public office, who have contributed in a particular way to national life or who have served the Sovereign personally. These have included Marshal of the RAF, Lord Stirrup, and former Prime Ministers Sir John Major and Sir Winston Churchill.//

so someone thought Bliar deserved it

perhaps his stuff over Di and Diana's death

[Atheist]

Remember that the Queen meets these PM's regularly, so she almost certainly has views about who is polite, who is boorish, who is trustworthy etc, who is rather attractive and so on.

[THECORBYLOON]

The link states, "Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Theresa May could be knighted after Tony Blair got an honour, a top Tory has hinted"

I doubt Theresa May is on the waiting list for a sex-change...

[Deskdiary]

It seems a curious award for somebody who took us into an illegal war (Falconer) as Bush’s lapdog, thus causing the unnecessary deaths of sons, daughters, husbands, wives, brothers and sisters.