[Stuart]

Doesn't bode well for the UK I fear

I concur.  Last year we had a good song and Sam Ryder had toured Europe promoting it for months. We sort of won, it was only the phone vote that turned it, and we know that was based on just support for Ukraine which Sam even encouraged with his shout-out at the end of his performance.

Last year we had:

[*]popular established TikTok performer
[*]bloke with a beard and long hair
[*]sparkly suit
[*]great voice
[*]great stage set
[*]Oh, and the song was really good!


We ticked all the Eurovision boxes for once.

This year, we have a weak entry with a song called "I wrote a song".  Blimey, is that really the best they could come up with? We deserve nil point.