“英國小姐”參選議員 要讓政治變“性感”
Gemma Garrett, the Miss Great Britain vowed to "put the beauty back into politics" Monday as she launched a bid to get elected to parliament that could get Prime Minister Gordon Brown sweating.
Garrett, 26, is standing for the newly-formed Beauties for Britain party. And the busty Belfast blonde could get Brown all hot under the collar with her antidote agenda to "serious and boring" politics.
Garrett is standing at the May 22 by-election in the Crewe and Nantwich constituency in north-west England. The seat was held by Gwyneth Dunwoody, a stalwart in Brown's governing Labour Party, who died last month.
Brown is already feeling the heat as Labour were battered in local elections in England and Wales last Thursday. Losing Dunwoody's seat in parliament's lower House of Commons would be a further stinging blow.
And Miss Great Britain could well attract voters away from the Labour candidate.
"It's a bit of fun and it's a bit light-hearted," she told reporters outside the Houses of Parliament in London.
"I think that people should be proud of Britain and proud of themselves especially the beauties that Britain has produced over the years and I'm very proud to be Miss Great Britain and standing for this."
Asked if she could help Brown tackle the global credit crunch and recover from Thursday's poll mauling, she replied: "No, but I could maybe give him some advice on beauty products."
She vowed to make politics "sexy instead of sleazy" -- and make childcare tax deductible.
宣佈競選議員的“英國小姐”傑瑪•加雷特於本週一表示，她要把“美貌帶回到政治”。加雷特的參選會給布朗首相帶來不小壓力。
今年26歲的加雷特將代表英國新成立的“美女黨”競選議員。這位來自貝爾法斯特的性感美女表示要改變英國“嚴肅無聊”的政治，這會讓布朗首相十分鬧心。
加雷特將在本月22日的特別選舉（譯者注：補缺選舉；在常規選舉間隙爲填補空缺而進行的特別的選舉）中競選英格蘭西北部克魯和楠特威治選區的議員資格。這一選區的議員原是工黨成員格威妮絲•鄧伍迪，她於上個月去世。
工黨上週四在英格蘭和威爾士的地方選舉中失利已讓布朗首相感到壓力。而如果再失去鄧伍迪在下議院的議員席位無疑將是雪上加霜。
而“英國小姐”加雷特的參選可能會搶走工黨的很多選民。
加雷特在倫敦的下議院大樓外接受記者的採訪時說：“參選議員有點意思，也很輕鬆愉快。”
“大家應該以英國，以他們自己爲驕傲，尤其應該爲英國這些年造就出來的美女們而驕傲。身爲‘英國小姐’並能夠代表美女黨競選議員，我感到非常自豪。”
在被問及她是否打算幫助布朗解決目前的全球信貸緊縮問題以及幫助工黨挽回上週四的選舉失敗時，她回答說：“不會，不過我可能會向布朗首相提些有關美容產品的建議。”
她表示要讓英國政治變得“性感而不低俗”，比如減除幼兒家庭的稅收。
