More Eurowibble

Looks like I was not the only one liveblogging Eurovision on Saturday, Noreen over on Emerald Bile has a nice take on everyone's favourite warble-fest and pretty much swore about the same songs as I did.

Now the dust has settled the hand-wringing as to why we came last, yet again has started in earnest. Terry Wogan is throwing his jouets out of le carrage bebe and saying he won't do it again unless the voting system changes and apparently some twat of an MP is apparently going to be tabling an early day motion to get the BBC to stop funding the competition unless we get to win or something; all of which sounds like a bunch of sour grapes.

Here's why we came last: we sent someone who could not even win a public talent show let along a major international competition. Russia on the other hand sent their equivalent of Robbie Williams who is absolutely massive in Eastern Europe and also threw in a famous Hugarian violinist and an olympic gold medallist figure scater into the mix. And as to all the whinging about "Block votes" please explain to me why Georgia gave Russia 12 points when earlier in the week the two countries almost went to war with each other! Look block voting always happened, Germany would always give Turkey 12 points (down to all the gastarbeiter, apparently) and we could usually rely on Ireland and Malta who were always good for a few points.

No, we lost because we sent a weak song that you had forgotten by the time it finished, let along after 20 odd other tunes. Terry Wogan is pissed because he more or less hand picked the entry this year - not that there was much competition and to be honest although 200k of my television tax go to fund this every year you get 8 or so hours of telly out of it. I doubt you would get a single episode of "Holby City" for that. Send a good song and you'll do OK, send an X-factor reject with 3 minutes of formula dross you won't.

And anyway, it's Eurovision, for fucks sake stop taking it seriously.