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Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown, seen here giving a speech in 2008, was voted Britain's most boring speaker, ahead of footballer David Beckham and actress Kate Winslet, according to a poll published Wednesday.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown is Britain's most boring speaker, ahead of footballer David Beckham and actress Kate Winslet, according to a poll published Wednesday.
Brown's cerebral style placed him ahead of Beckham, whose London cockney accent played badly in the poll, and Winslet, widely criticised in stiff upper lip Britain for her emotional acceptance speech at this year's Golden Globes.
Brown once used the phrase "post neo-classical endogenous growth theory" in a speech and one of his frequently-told jokes recalls a meeting between the late US president Ronald Reagan and former Swedish premier Olof Palme.
An aide told Reagan: "No Mr. President, he's an anti-communist", to which Reagan responded: "I don't care what kind of communist he is".
The survey, of 1,000 adults by the firm SpinVox, judged British actor Stephen Fry the best speaker.
It came as another survey found that just nine percent of Britons backed Brown's government's multi-billion pound bailout for banks, with around 90 percent saying priority should be given to protecting jobs.
That survey, also of 1,000 adults, was carried out for People's Charter for Change, founded by trade unions and left-wing lawmakers from Brown's ruling Labour Party.
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(Agencies)
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本周三公布的一項(xiàng)民調(diào)顯示，英國(guó)首相戈登?布朗被評(píng)為英國(guó)最煩人的演講者，足球明星大衛(wèi)?貝克漢姆和女星凱特?溫斯萊特位居其后。
布朗因其文縐縐的風(fēng)格位居榜首，貝克漢姆的倫敦東區(qū)口音難討大眾歡心，而溫斯萊特在今年金球獎(jiǎng)?lì)C獎(jiǎng)典禮上情緒化的獲獎(jiǎng)感言則讓一向以冷靜沉著而著稱的英國(guó)人頗為反感。
布朗曾在一次演講中提及“后新古典內(nèi)生增長(zhǎng)理論”這一短語(yǔ)，他經(jīng)常說(shuō)的一個(gè)笑話是關(guān)于美國(guó)已故總統(tǒng)羅納德?里根與瑞典前首相奧洛夫?帕爾梅的一次會(huì)面。
一名助手對(duì)里根說(shuō)：“不，總統(tǒng)先生，他是反共產(chǎn)主義者。”里根回答說(shuō)：“我不管他是哪種共產(chǎn)主義者。”
這項(xiàng)由SpinVox調(diào)查機(jī)構(gòu)開(kāi)展的調(diào)查共有1千名成年人參加。英國(guó)男演員史蒂文?弗萊獲評(píng)最精彩演講者。
同時(shí)公布的另一項(xiàng)調(diào)查發(fā)現(xiàn)，僅有9%的英國(guó)民眾支持布朗政府?dāng)?shù)十億英鎊的銀行救助計(jì)劃，約90%的人稱現(xiàn)在的首要任務(wù)應(yīng)該是保護(hù)就業(yè)。
這項(xiàng)同樣有1千人參加的調(diào)查受People's Charter for Change的委托開(kāi)展。該機(jī)構(gòu)由工會(huì)和英國(guó)執(zhí)政黨工黨中的左翼立法者成立。
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