How I became disenchanted with Eurovison

Tonight sees the first semi final  for this year's Eurovison song contest held tonight, I will not see a single second of this year's event as I have done for the last 2 years. I started to watch the contest in the late 1980's when it was deemed uncool, this view seem to change in the period in the 1990's when Ireland won 4 out of 5 contest with Norway with an entry that was an extended violin solo that just happened to be played an Irish musician. Ireland won the contest for the last time to date in 1996 and the following year the UK won at a canter when Katrina and The Waves performed 'Love Shine a Light'. There are many reasons as to why I do not watch the Eurovison nowadays, first there is the blatant bloc voting of neighbours towards (Scandinavia, The ex Soviet Union, the former Yugoslavia) each other which provides (with the exception of Finland's Lordi who won in 2006 with 'Hard Rock Halluejah') the contest with winners of dubious quality, the voting process that now allows non qualifiers to vote thus making the bloc voting even worse plus needlessly over long and finally the bizarre decision to invite Australia to take part in the event. Below are some thing I would do if I was in charge of the contest

1. Regional qualifying - this would be done to get rid of the obvious bloc voting that has hindered the contest for the last decade.

2. Single non qualifiers panel - non qualifiers get a vote but they combined into one block again to diminishing the impact and shorten the voting process.

3. Goodbye Australia - to put this pure and simple the contest is supposed to be an European event.