Hear My Plea

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People of United Kingom. Please, please take the choice that you have to make this evening seriously. Today it is all too easy to lose hope. It is all too easy to feel powerless: wars, disease, financial meltdown (and in choosing the song that the UK will send to Eurovision). But tonight, you can make a difference. The very future of the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest is in your hands. After the BBC has apparantly thrown everything they can to turn UK fortunes around, if the act you choose tonight goes onto bomb in Moscow the only way is out. We can't turn back time, we can't undo Gemini, Scooch Andy Abrahams but tonight you can put some of that wrong right if you only STOP THE TWINS!

The production team are doing what they can making the twins perform 'The Promise' again, which was not their best and having Jade repeat the performance of the series 'Deja Vu'. ALW is doing his best, appearing with Jade and her family in The Sun (how exactly do you cry if your tear ducts have gone in a bag-ectomy?) and hinting that one of the acts might not manage in Moscow. He has even threatened to throw a hisssy fit and not go out to see his best mate Vlad in May if you don't vote the right artist in. Bar wearing a big T-shirt saying 'I hate the twins' what else can he do? Maybe concentrate on writing a half-decent song? They could show that Jade is leading the voting half way through and offer the chance of winning a car if you vote for the eventual winner (copyright RTE 2006- I can't believe that actually happened). Or maybe replace the tickertape in the bucket above the stage for twins' performance with red paint à la Carrie.

No, joking. That would be awful. Would probably backfire.

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