Britain’s got talent – or has it?

Against my better judgment I found myself watching Britain’s Got Talent this weekend.  And the strange thing was, apart from the entirely predictable string of misfits and wannabees that were in the line up.  Simon Cowell showed he wouldn’t recognise talent if it bit him in the face.

If you have sat through the excruciating experience that is the X-Factor, you know the format.  A heady mix of the seriously deluded and the seriously talentless prostrate themselves for 5 minutes of fame and the gratuitous pleasure of a massive TV audience.

Anyway, my eye was taken by an ensemble called the Arrangement.  IIt was a bunch of  slightly posh A level students from A Cambridge college – including some stunning girls with violins – which always seems to go down well in competitions like this.

Simon Cowell pressed his buzzer within seconds of the act starting – which turned out to be slightly premature as the act went on to bring the house down.  Now the point I am trying to make is that if the smug and irritating Simon Cowell does this hideous TV show to promote talent – he should at least allow the talent to perform.

And I suppose he could do us all a favour by getting rid of those loathsome Geordies Ant & Dec.  I have never been able to work out why those unfunny buffoons are given airtime on just about any and every programme that goes out on a Saturday evening.

I suppose it has all been done deliberately for effect – but even the judges are unspeakably awful  That smug, self-satisfied slug who is basically a failed journalist knows nothing about talent.  Amanda Holden at least is a second rate actress, so she presumably knows a little bit about talent.  And All Simon Cowell knows is third rate karaoke,.