Voting in Eurovision
I love the Eurovision Song Contest.

I don't fucking care what anyone thinks, it's full of good music, mixed in with a load of crap "this was popular last year, let's do it again" bullshit. I own the past several years on CD, and listen to them more than any other albums I own.

But the voting system pisses me off. Because it's sickeningly disproportionate. And it should be fucking proportionate!

Malta
Population: 402,000 (smaller than Bristol)
Number of points to dole out: 58*
That's 14.43 points per 100,000 people

Germany
Population: 82 million
Number of points to dole out: 58*
That's 0.07 points per 100,000 people

So, the opinion of a Maltese person is worth more than 20 times the opinion of a German person.

And then there's all these Eastern European countries. They keep fucking winning. You know why? It's because they're fucking cheating! It all used to be one country, and now they're just fucking splitting themselves into small and smaller microstates, getting 58 points EACH to dole out. Fucking Kosovo's going to get 58 points. Kosovo, with a population of about 8 humans, 3 cows and a rusty Volkswagen they bought in 1992. It needs to be sorted, or it'll start to hurt politically. Montenegro split from Serbia in an argument that started off in the Eurovision selection process. And got 58 fucking points in the process.

The answer is, of course, for every part of the UK to declare itself independent, so we can enter 600 times, vote for each other, and then it'll end up somewhere on this island (or in Nothern Ireland), and we can all go and watch it.

OR, we could weight votes out fairly.

But I prefer the idea of voting for the People's Republic of West Mercia.

And trying to hear them pronounce those silly Welsh names in French.


*58 = 12 + 10 + 8 + 7 + 6 + 5 + 4 + 3 + 2 + 1
( Thinker, Mon 5 May 2008, 2:26, 2 replies)

Berkshire for state!!
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(shake'n'bake Tally Ho, Biatch!, Mon 5 May 2008, 5:01, closed)

proportional representation
You don't by any chance want a job do you?

The Liberal Democrat Party
(stonersmurf stuckin' foned, Mon 5 May 2008, 12:59, closed)