Tuesday, May 15, 2007  A musical joke  It's probably a little
unfortunate that Richard Younger-Ross is picking up so much
coverage for his idiotic, timewasting early day motion about the
Eurovision Song Contest. Since his dogged and determined
Parliamentary lobbying against the Iraq War tends not to be
reported, the casual observer might just assume that Younger-
Ross is a bit of twit trying to draw attention to himself, which
isn't the case at all.  Anyway, he has taken time and effort to
bring the matter to the government's attention:  That this House
believes that voting in the Eurovision Song Contest has become a
joke as countries vote largely on narrow nationalistic grounds
or for neighbour countries rather than the quality of the song;
and that such narrow voting is harmful to the relationship
between the peoples of Europe; and calls for the BBC to insist
on changes to the voting system or to withdraw from the contest.
Actually, not only is treating the song contest as something
worthy of the expense an