Fall from a giddy height (2)

Malta will never do as well as it deserves in the Eurovision Song Contest with the voting system as it stands today. We can send great singers and great songs but they will not receive the acknowledgment they deserve. So this is pretty much a waste.

We need to make a point. We need to send a song with some witty, funny lyrics that mock what the Eurovision has become.

I have started an online petition to ask the Maltasong board to spare the money spent on organising the local qualification contest for Eurovision 2008 and instead contract witty songwriters and singers the likes of Joe Demicoli, Augusto Cardinale and Philip Vella to compose a song that makes a point by mocking the obvious faults of the current voting system and the culprit countries.

There is really nothing to lose and a lot of money and undeserved humiliation to spare. We might not qualify for the final anyway, but we will surely make one point that really counts.

The petition can be found at www.ipetitions.com/petition/maltamocksongforeurovision/index.html .