In the most Strictly Confidence....

338 days to go....

Apologies for not having updated for a couple of weeks but I have a mistress and that mistress' name is Facebook. I've got an inkling that there will soon be support groups up and down the country.

Anyway, I wanted to blog because I think that it is time that people that write blogs should stand up and be counted.

It has come to my attention that on the world stage a group of people have found themselves newly oppressed by an uncaring regime. This has caused much unrest and has attracted a great deal of attention from the British media.

I'm talking, of course, of the new voting system on 'Strictly Come Dancing'.

(Burma? Where's Burma?)

Those of you who know me will realise that Strictly Come Dancing is one of my secret shames. Those of you who know me better will realise that few of my shames are actually shameful and even fewer are actually secret.

What can I say? I don't know whether it's the sequins, the glamour or the all encompassing campness of it all but I love a bit of Strictly.

But all this has potentially been ruined by the fact that under new voting rules the judges have been awarded powers exceeding their office.

Under the old regime the judges (three men of varying campness and an embittered old trout in need of HRT) could only decide 50% of the marks and the general public the other 50%. The lowest scoring dancers being eliminated.

Under the new scheme there is the old 50/50 split and then the judges get to pick which of the two dancing couples with the lowest score leaves (they billed this choice as the "judges choosing to save a couple" but they are really choosing who goes).

Unfortunately this means that we will no longer get the totally random acts of capriciousness that made the show a hit in the first place.

One can be reasonably sure who is going to be voted out each week and I can't help thinking that the amount of phone votes will go down as people realise that their votes don't actually count for much (which is bad as this generates money for Children in Need).

Is this the start of a new reign of terror? Do these ex-choreographers and ballroom dancer intend to stage a coup and rule the country with an iron (and yet sequined) fist? Will their choreograpphed troops soon be marching down YOUR street? Only time will tell.