Sunday, March 02, 2008

Andy Abraham Wins

So the winner of the competition to represent the UK in this year's Eurovision Song Contest
turns out to be a runner up in one of the numerous X-Factor competitions that have been aired over the past few years. How many winners can we name, let alone runners up? Anyway, no disrespect to Mr Abraham, but however good the performance, or the song, the chances of the UK troubling the scorers in the final are minimal. Western European countries notoriously do very badly in the voting, because there is a cartel (implicit or explicit) between the countries of the Balkans, the Baltic States and the former Soviet countries. Hey ho - it makes bizarre television viewing.

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