There’s been plenty of debate about Louis Walsh and his decision to knock Laura White out of The X Factor last Saturday. He’s been tactically voting throughout the competition – he knocked Austin Drage out, then Laura – both strong contenders in the competition.

Many people – myself included – believe that Louis’s tactical voting is ruining the show.

Louis Walsh has a history of knocking talented acts out of the competition to suit his own needs – he sacrificed Maria Lawson a few years ago to save The Conway Sisters. It later transpired that he knew their family personally, and Sharon Osbourne rightly called him out with a comment about the Irish Mafia.

And isn’t it interesting that within a couple of weeks, both Louis and Simon had whittled their acts down to just one each? I said a few weeks ago that it was strangely co-incidental that Louis should be so bad with girl groups, yet be holding auditions for a girl group of his own.

Anyway, aside from his voting, the constant references to Westlife (is there a week in this series where Louis hasn’t mentioned them?), and his childish sniping at Simon are showing him up as being thoroughly unprofessional.

So, having said all that, should Louis be sacked?

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(By the way, more than 30,000 people have signed a petition to say that Laura White was robbed when Louis chose to vote her out last week. Have your say here.)