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TRANSCRIPT OF THE PRIME MINISTER'S BROADCAST ON ECONOMIC POLICY FRIDAY 30 JUNE 2000 In a few week's time, Gordon Brown will announce to Parliament and the country the Government's spending plans for the next three years. I can't, of course, reveal the details here. But I can say that this Comprehensive Spending Review, as it's known, will deliver sustained extra investment to continue modernising and improving our key public services - that is hospitals, schools, transport links and the police. But we can only promise this extra investment - and be confident we can deliver it over the next three years - because of the strong state of the economy and the strength of the public finances. But the fact that we are repaying billions of pounds of our national debt now, that inflation is low, on target - the lowest at the present time in the whole of Europe - and that nearly a million more people are in work than when we came into Government. None of this has happened by chance. It's a result - at least in part - of the difficult decisions, sometimes tough decisions, we took in the early years of this Government. It's the reward in other words for the economy being run competently and for the good of all the country. When this Government came into office, we inherited an economy where annual borrowing was running at �0�528 billion a year, the national debt had doubled, we were paying out more just in interest payments on that debt than we spent on the whole of the UK school system. One in five families had no breadwinner and inflation was creeping back into the system. We had to act and we did act to put things right. We gave the Bank of England independence in monetary policy to help in the fight against inflation and to keep interest rates under control. We kept, as we promised, to tough spending limits for our first two years. That included keeping the last Government's fuel escalator which I know has pushed up petrol duty automatically above inflation each year. We also tackled the waste of unemployment - and particularly the scandal of long term youth unemployment - through the New Deal. We brought in the minimum wage, we brought in the new Working Families Tax Credit, the enhanced Family Credit, to help make work pay and tackle waste and fraud in the welfare system. And we've also targeted tax cuts to benefit the many and to help again ensure that those in work were rewarded with the basic rate income tax cut and the 10p starting rate of tax. The result is inflation is low and on target, interest rates round about half the level they reached under the last Government. And the public finances are back in good shape. And because of course we're reducing the national debt, then we can save on those interest payments. The New Deal has helped reduce unemployment, youth unemployment by over 60% and weve extended it to the long-term unemployed and lone parents who want help back into work. Round about 250,000 jobs or more have been created in this way. Living standards are rising, more people are in work and paying tax than ever before. In short, there is a new stability in our economy which is enabling business to plan with confidence for the future. It's has also enabled us to scrap, in the last Budget, that automatic above-inflation rise in petrol duty. I know petrol has gone up and it's a good deal more expensive that it was. And I know the difficulties that causes for people in rural areas and people who have to use their cars a lot of the time. It is important, however, to point out two things. First, that most of the recent rise has been because of an increase in crude oil prices the world over. The price of oil has risen from round about 18 dollars a barrel sold a short time ago to around 30 dollars a barrel now. And secondly, while people say it now costs �0�550 to fill up the average car with petrol in Britain, they don't point out that it also costs over �0�540 now in Germany and in France where of course there are motorway tolls and much higher income tax. But yes, it is the case that the price of petrol also went up because of the action in those early years when we had to cut Government borrowing. Because if we didn't, then we were never going to get the public finances under control. The point that I'm making is this. All these things fit together. It's only because of the hard choices, the choices to give the Bank of England independence in monetary policy, to cut the deficit to put the public finances in order, to solve the problems of long term unemployment so that we get welfare bills down and have more money to spend on the things we want. It's only because of those hard choices that we now can sit down with ease to plan ahead to invest more over the next few years to improve schools, hospitals, crime, transport, the key public services. It couldn't be done without those tough decisions - not on the basis that we're planning to do it which is sustainable increases, year after year after year. The first responsibility of any Government is to run the economy competently. It is the first responsibility because it's the foundation on which everything else is built. And I promise it's a responsibility this Government will carry out. And we'll carry it out because otherwise the good things we want to spend money on, the public services we need, the facilities and help that people want, simply can't be provided. There is a new economic policy in this country today. It's a foundation of economic stability and sound public finance, and built on that are strong public services. We intend and will do both.

丘吉尔关于NEVER GIVE UP (永不放弃)的英文演讲稿 丘吉尔在他生命中的最后一次演讲是在剑桥大学的一次毕业典礼上，整个大会礼堂里坐着上万名学生，他们正在等候着伟人丘吉尔的到来． 在随从的陪同下，丘吉尔先生准时到达，并慢慢地走进了会场，走向讲台.站在讲台上，丘吉尔脱下他的大衣交给随从，接着摘下帽子，默默地注视所有的听众．一分钟后，丘吉尔缓缓地说了一句话：”Never Give Up!” 说完这句话后，丘吉尔穿上了大衣带上帽子离开了会场．整个会场鸦雀无声，一分钟后，掌声雷动，经久不息。

一楼牛人，我服。无敌的名字。

全文就是 “Never give up！”。丘吉尔在牛津大学毕业典礼上曾经做过一次演讲。他亦是诺贝尔文学奖获奖者，是当代著名的演说家，也是伟大的政治家，而他在屏住呼吸等待祝词的听众面前只说了一句话： “Never give up！”即永不放弃。

最后证明，这是作者杜撰的，丘吉尔没有在大学演讲说这话

确有其事在2000年8月日本冲绳首脑会议期间，时任日本首相的森喜朗见到了克林顿，为了表达好客之心，森喜朗一见面就热情地向克林顿打招呼：“Who are you?”（你是谁？）克林顿一愣，以为对方在跟他开玩笑，也就灵机一动，把美国人幽默的一面表现出来。克林顿诙谐地答：“I am Hillary's husband。”（我是希拉里的丈夫。）令克林顿万万没有想到的是，森喜朗竟然比他更“幽默”。笑容满面诚心诚意地答：“Me too。”（我也是。）这下克林顿真的愣住了，没法子再幽默，只好装作没听见。原来森喜朗是想问：“How are you ？”（你好吗？）按社交礼仪，克林顿应该回答：“I am fine，thank you。And you?”（我很好，谢谢，你呢？）然后森喜朗再回答：“Me too。”但他的英语水平太差，第一句话就出了问题。头一句出了错，又听不懂对方的话，只好照本宣科，结果一错再错，在外交场合出了个著名的大洋相。