Jeremy Clarkson 'flattered' over petition not to have him sacked amid Tony Blair backlash

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Tony Blair, 68, was appointed a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter in the New Year Honours list this month.The news has prompted over a million people to sign a petition to revoke his title.

Angus Scott, the creator of the page, says the former Prime Minister "caused irreparable damage to constitution of UK" with the Iraq war and "should be held accountable".Jeremy Clarkson, 62, has said despite the many signatures so far, he doesn't believe this will make a difference to the "awful man" officially receiving the honour.

The Grand Tour star shared his thoughts after he was once at the centre of a petition following his exit from the BBC in 2015.After an altercation with a Top Gear producer, his time on the show came to an end with co-stars Richard Hammond and James May.A petition was later created to bring him back on the show and was signed by 1,061,003 supporters.Naga Munchetty posts video from hospital bedHe said: "[It's] not going to happen, I’m afraid, because a million signatures is nothing."On the website that’s hosting the anti-Sir Blair movement, more than three times as many people care about getting Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe out of Iran."And more than a million put their name to a campaign to stop animal abusers from ever owning a pet again."He went on to say there were way more people who either backed the ex Prime Minister's knighthood or were simply not interested."I was very flattered when a million people signed a petition urging the BBC not to sack me, but I always knew at the back of my mind that some 64million hadn’t," he continued.Jeremy went on to say that Tony would know how petitions work, following a protest about the Iraq War 2003."It was certainly the biggest protest march.