The highlight of the weekend was the Eurovision song contest, there has since been a barrage in the press blaming Scootch for an appaling camp song, have they forgotten that the song was the choice of GBP in a tele-vote. The danger from the press is that they tend to take it all too seriously. However, the political voting was more obvious than ever, before it was just pairing which did not effect the final result and was a bit of an in-joke. Now we have block voting with a split between old and new Europe. The UK should not send its best but maintain but send more of the same next year to Belgrade. 1 Serbia - 268 2 Ukraine - 235 3 Russia - 207 4 Turkey - 163 5 Bulgaria - 157 6 Belarus - 145 7 Greece - 139 8 Armenia - 138 9 Hungary - 128 10 Moldova - 109 11 Bosnia/Herzegovina - 106 12 Georgia - 97 13 Romania - 84 14 Macedonia - 73 15 Slovenia - 66 16 Latvia - 54 17 Finland - 53 18 Sweden - 51 19 Germany - 49 20 Spain - 43 21 Lithuania - 28 22 France - 19 23 United Kingdom - 19 24 Ireland - 5