Terry Wogan has been whinging about the politics involved in Eurovision voting again, after the voting at Saturday's nights Contest saw a huge bias in favour of Eastern Europe where a plethora of smaller countries all voted for each other's tracks.
Speaking on his Radio Two breakfast programme Wogan said: "It's not a song contest any more. It's a political voting contest. It's so unfair," adding that the event's organiser the European Broadcasting Union should take action to find a fairer voting system.
Of course, given that it is now the general public in each country that vote, it is hard to see what could be done to overcome the tendency for countries to vote for song from their geographic neighbours, favouring those with more borders. And of course you could argue voting patterns don't represent political bias but the fact that popular votes are more likely to favour songs from cultures closer to their own. Given we are probably culturally closer to America the days of being assured a top five place in the Eurovision are over - unless of course we go for my idea of putting up an established British artist with an existing Eastern European fan base!