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UK's 'dismal' Eurovision song choices to be examined by MPs
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Brits need to chill the fuck out when it comes to Eurovision. It's a contest where you're judged by the community, so when you're routinely dicks to your neighbours you're gonna lose... a lot. It has very little to do with the act on stage.
If that’s true, how did Israel win?
They have a sizeable group of supporters in lots of European countries that will vote on them and no one else no matter what. There's also a large group that will not vote on them no matter what, but that group splits the vote between all the other contestants. So in general, Israel benefits from the polarisation.
The Israeli government also invests in marketing to encourage its citizens to vote in Eurovision.
The maximum times they can. On as many phones...
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Didnt they get second place?
That’s way better than they should have. They didn’t win the last one but I think there was a pretty recent one.
Bribes and Android VMs?
Sects and cults do be like that
How has the UK been routinely dicks? We never won when we were in the EU either.
It was always seen as a bit naff, and no credible artists ever wanted anything to do with it.
Afghanistan and Iraq? Already dominating music industry? Being rubbish at languages because they all speak ours? Even in the EU, we were "Extrawurst" all the time. Denominating finance (partly with dark money).
Even before Brexit, we made ourselves unpopular.
Lol
The UK/bbc is also one of the major funders so it gets an automatic place in the final. So merit is not nessassery in the opening.
Sam Ryder was pretty good
He is but I think the scales need rebalanced to allow the UK to not make it into the final. And actually work for the final.