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> He was voted 10th greatest Briton in a national poll there in 2002

It was a TV competition the first round of which was a survey of 30,000 people. The voters who got him on the list and to 10th place probably aren't that many people to call “monsters”. (You were probably referring to all Britons other than the 9 ahead of him, but that’s simply the wrong set.)



No reason to think it wasn't a reasonably representative sample, however many thousand actually voted.




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