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11.5.06
Tonight's Retro Bar results (and Edinburgh's)

The votes are in. Our intrepid reporters Luca and Mike have verified the results, and we can report that the winners of tonight's London Retro Bar 'Douze Points' video vote are:

Germany and their middle of the road Radio 2 country effort. Yawn.

Bloody queens. They can't be trusted. As if to prove the point, the idiots have voted a Christian homophobe into second place. Turkeys and Christmas, anybody? WAKE UP YOU FOOLS! SHE HATES YOU!

Full results then, in descending order:

1st Germany
2nd Sweden
3rd Greece
4th Slovenia
5th Iceland
6th Belgium
7th Romania
8th United Kingdom
9th Russia
10th Finland
11th Malta
12th Estonia
13th Denmark
14th Bosnia-Herzegovina (which will win the real thing)
15th Spain
=16th Norway & Croatia
18th Monaco
19th France
20th Switzerland
=21st Poland & Latvia
23rd Moldova
24th Israel

Let's compare these with the results from the Edinburgh chapter of Eurovision fans, who held a vote on the very same videos last Friday night (in someone's house):

1st Sweden (I despair.)
2nd Slovenia
3rd Iceland
4th Romania
5th Belgium
6th Greece
7th Monaco
8th Ukraine
9th Finland
10th Malta

Despite both groups being predominantly gay men, with some heterosexuals thrown in, one result is startlingly different. The Scots have very sensibly ignored Germany altogether! Kate Ryan's gay vote is slipping, and it's pleasing to see Finland's monster rockers Lordi being universally appreciated, including by my Mum, who said she likes their song. Rock on mother! She has gone for Malta as this year's winner, based solely on the CD and no videos, as has my Irish friend Dermot. I feel another each way bet coming on...


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