The Eastern European Eurovision Song Contest
I didn’t watch the Eurovision Song Contest last night for three reasons: one, the BBC chose not to air Doctor Who this week to make way for it—and has been playing fast-and-loose with its greatest asset throughout this year’s fourth series already in terms of scheduling—and two, because the songs get worse every year. But my third reason is because Eurovision has become a political battleground in which the new gang of Eastern European states consistently club together and have now ensured that no Western European nation is likely to ever win the competition again.
tags: choons, community, competition, Eurovision, politics, rivalry, tactical votingSo who do we vote for when the good times are over and won’t ever come back?
Most of us don’t have party political allegiances. The shadows cast by the worst decisions of previous and current Prime Ministers tend to inform our decisions at the ballot box, and because some pretty appalling policies have been inflicted on us down the years by both Labour and the Conservatives, we spend a lot of our time at a crossroads of opinion subject to movement caused by the vagaries of the media as much as by our own experiences and anything the latest leaders do or say.
tags: Big Brother, civil liberties, Conservatives, database state, David Cameron, elections, environment, food crisis, free market, global warming, Gordon Brown, ID cards, Labour, Liberal Democrats, politics, sustainability, Tony Blair
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