The Eurovision song contest, long a favourite of mine is losing its lustre. I used to love the cheesy nature of the songs, the awfulness of some and the chaotic voting by countries that were unable to act in a grown up fashion. Now the show is put on with way too much panache, too many countries enter decent songs and the corrupt bit is beyond the pale.
I should applaud the progress towards genuine talent, but that leaves me cold I'm afraid. But what really drives me away is that all of the fractured former communist countries are involved and so we have lots more 'friends-votes. Cyprus giving top votes to Greece and vice versa was always laughed at, now everyone is at it.
It shows up in a way that we never get a chance to see normally (though always suspected), that Europe is a hopelessly segmented place, trying to pretend to unity. We are very different and all too many corrupt and non cooperative. Why on earth would you want to try to tie these people together in a political union, let alone an economic one!?
Maybe the communist regime of the EU should just celebrate diversity and leave us alone. People strive to do better when they can, or hold their hand out for subsidies when the EU comes along. It cannot work and only those who insisted they could sovietise Europe believed otherwise.
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