To think the UK should not fund the Eurovision Song Contest?

[NowIsTheSpringOfOurDiscontent]

Or bother entering obviously.

It’s a humiliation and everyone hates us so we hardly get any votes. None this year due to Brexit and the Covid vaccine probably.

Poor James . He certainly didn’t deserve NIL points!

Waah waah we did win and now we are going to throw our toys out of the pram

Wow it’s really shit to be making comments about the guy’s appearance.

That would be the definition of a childish reaction to losing. You can’t win everything.

The Germans should have won that.

We won't win by coming up with turgid rubbish like that.

We need to do a Lordi or just get Faithless to do a new version of Insomnia.

All together now We can't get no votes. (admit you're singing it now)

@Duckypoohs

We could win if we sent a decent song.

To be fair, we probably wouldn't, but we'd get a few more points than zero.

No credible artist is going to subject themselves to the humilation anyway, so this is why we get fat bloke from down the road representing us.

@SnapDragonCat

If we managed to clone the 60s Beatles and enter them we still wouldn't win. Love the idea of entering Vic Reeves singing in the club style

Well we did win with the slightly cheesy katrina and the waves song tbh. I think that was still when it was only judges votes. .

The song wasn't good.

Agree there's not much point in it when it's more about xenophobia than how good the song is though

UK staging was terrible as well, like something produced by a primary school. We need to get a lot lot better.

Leaving wouldn’t be throwing the toys out the pram I don’t think. No ones complaining about not winning - there’s only one winner anyway. But we just might as well not be there because no one wants us there so what’s the point. Nil points again and again. There was plenty of other shite songs getting points.

How is it about xenophobia? How could anyone listen to the shit song we proferred and say we were robbed?

Funny if the UK put a good singer in we might get points haha he was crap sorry

Our song wasn’t great, but it definitely wasn’t the worst.

It’s not the song. People HATE us.

There are countries way more hated than the UK that got points. Playing the victim here is a bit pathetic tbh.

The problem with the songs the UK send is that they are very bland!

@AngeloMysterioso

Our song wasn’t great, but it definitely wasn’t the worst.

It really was imo.

If we are paying £500,000 membership it works out as about £0.008 per person in the UK!

I Eurovisxit long before Brexit as I understand it’s not been a European song contest for years and that is not because it’s intercontinental but more because it’s an annual entertainment circus with some political and woke activism with varying agendas and block voting trends. Each to their own as like other beauty contests the best and by definition popular and established don’t complete in this spectacle as it’s more overall for second rate unknowns than top flight musicality. Admittedly it’s usually good entertainment and works well for social gatherings etc listening to other languages with occasionally some refreshing aural delights in a language one does not understand but resonates well emerge.

It was a terrible song, and the performance/staging of it was easily the worst out of all of them.

"Here's a chubby bloke we found in a pub, who can't really sing live standing in between two trumpets doing dad dancing!"

I don't care how much we actually contribute. In these days that everything from the NHS to benefits to keeping local libraries open is under such heavy scrutiny we shouldn't be paying out for a song contest.

I'm watching the 1998 version on iplayer, blimey haha.

I didn’t like the song at all tbh

It's perfectly fair to criticise his appearance. The vote is about the whole performance - the staging, the costumes, the dancing, the special effects and the talent and appeal (or lack of) of the performers - as well as the song itself.

Judging by our decision to field an uncharismatic contestant with all the dress sense of Columbo singing a wholly unmemorable song, we are now scraping the very bottom of the barrel, and I can only assume I will have to step up and represent the UK myself next year.

I do feel it's time all contestants contributed equally and we stopped buying our place in the final - totally unfair.

There is no way that our song was worse then the cringe-fest that Germany offered up

@CuteOrangeElephant it’s not playing the victim it’s just how it is. It’s probably nicer to think the song was at fault but that’s kidding yourself.