Friday, November 28, 2014

(UK) Cameron mocks Tony Blair’s Save the Children Award, charity scrutinized


Only a day after an online petition calling for Tony Blair’s Save the Children Global Legacy Award to be revoked gained over 100,000 signatures, Prime Minister David Cameron has called Blair’s choice for the accolade “remarkable.”

Cameron was questioned about the legitimacy of the award in the House of Commons, when Andrew Turner MP asked whether it was appropriate that Blair had been handed the honor.

“Should Tony Blair get a global legacy award from Save the Children for taking us to war unnecessarily in Iraq?” he asked .... http://rt.com/uk