I have the misfortune of watching the 'elimination' round for the British entry to this year's
Eurovision Song Contest. Now we already know that things can only end badly - in fact if the UK didn't contribute so much to Eurovision, thus giving us an automatic entry into the contest we'd never reach the finals - or even a preliminary round. We have a hint of how things work from the last two years' winners - we are in Serbia this year as they won in 2007, the Finns won the previous year and Estonia the year before. How apt then that the singer of one of the UK's entries comes from Romania, can't sing in tune, looks weird and is thus likely to do very well. Except we all know the Balkan countries always vote for each other, as do the Baltic countries, Cyprus votes for Greece & vice versa, nobody votes for western European countries. Ah well, thank heavens for Terry Wogan.
Eurovision Song Contest. Now we already know that things can only end badly - in fact if the UK didn't contribute so much to Eurovision, thus giving us an automatic entry into the contest we'd never reach the finals - or even a preliminary round. We have a hint of how things work from the last two years' winners - we are in Serbia this year as they won in 2007, the Finns won the previous year and Estonia the year before. How apt then that the singer of one of the UK's entries comes from Romania, can't sing in tune, looks weird and is thus likely to do very well. Except we all know the Balkan countries always vote for each other, as do the Baltic countries, Cyprus votes for Greece & vice versa, nobody votes for western European countries. Ah well, thank heavens for Terry Wogan.
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