There are calls for Britain to pull out of the Eurovision Song Contest, after
Engelbert Humperdinck finished second-last on Saturday, with Norway bottom. The Mayor of Leicester has today denounced Eurovision, saying: ‘The politics of Europe — which
countries are friendly with which others — has a lot more to do with it than the quality of the songs.’ I agree: politics are involved and it is outrageous. Had George Osborne not
given Ireland that £3.2 billion loan we would not have had its four points and Britain would be where it deserved: at the very
bottom. We were dismal, and in the eyes of half a billion people. But the solution is not to withdraw from Eurovision. The solution is to properly compete.
Each year, the British entry has an unwritten but clear subtext: ‘we think this song is so bad that you lot might actually like it’.

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