Eurovision farce

the_dart wrote:

I just want to say that the benefits of hosting eurovision more than outweigh the costs of staging the competition. Hosting Eurovision allows a country over 3 hours to advertise its nation to an audience all around Europe.

Eurovision used to be good, prior to lets say 1999, but now its al political/cultural/geographical voting- whatever you want to call it.

It's no surprise that Ireland and the UK both gave 12 points to Lithuania (which had a terrible song "We are the Winners", had it been the song for Malta or Iceland, it would have came nowhere). We gave Latvia 12 points last year and it's more than likely we'll give 12 points to an Eastern European country next year due to immigrants voting for their home countries. Also, it was no surprise that Russia finished second place after getting a wave of 12points votes from Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia and other Eastern European countries, nor was it a surprise to see Balkan countries voting for eachother. No shcok to see Andorra give 12 points to Spain. No shock to see Germany give 12 points to Turkey (Germany's Turkish immigrants always make sure they send 12 points home every year). No shock to see the Baltic states voting for eachother. Of course, it was no shock to see Cyprus give Greece 12 points, seen as the Cypriots are Greek.

It was terribly funny to see the vote presenters doing their annual lines "And 12 points to our good neighbours", " And 12 points to our good friends", "12 points to my favourite song - you deserve it".

So, prior to 1999, the Eurovision was interesting because contestants more or less had a fair chance of wining. Now, it's a farce. Ireland will never benefit from hosting Eurovision EVER again, because we're an island nation and we only have one "good neighbour". In fact, you can almost conclude that Ireland, Malta and the UK will never win it again.

So, the big questions is: What do we do about this?

The answer is simple - from now on, give the Eastern Europeans a taste of their own medicine. Forget about voting for the best song anymore, the best song will never win and if Ireland have a good song in the competition, nobody is going to vote for it anyway. Therefore, from now on, vote for our "good neighbours" the United Kingdom, just to keep up the spirit of the Eurovision Vote For Your Neighbours Contest.