Originally Posted by pistonbroke:
“It worked for Mick McManus”
Mick McManus was a wrestler in the 70s.....
If you mean Michelle...here we go again with this. There are 5 million people in Scotland and 45 million in England. Do the sums.
Michelle McManus could NOT have won PI2 with ONLY the Scottish vote. Get a grip and put this to rest.
As for Tabby...what I meant (and should have made myself clearer for those who require precision) is that there are so many people who are NOT Irish who may feel a bit excluded or put off by the suggestion of national or regional competition.
It won't work for Tabby even if he gets all of the Irish vote; it assumes that, if he were to get to the final (as Michelle did) that all non-Irish will vote for the other person. This doesn't happen. If it did, the winners would all be English, if your theory is right.