How will Britain's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest do on Saturday?

Also, how did the song automatically qualify along with four others? Have I missed something? I only found out by accident on Tuesday there were to be semi finals for the contest.

How will Britain's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest do on Saturday?
Our entry will not fare well because it's too normal. It's not gimmicky enough. Besides, like others have said, it doesn't matter how much Europe like the song, they will vote for their neighbours. The Balkans will vote for the Balkans, the Scandinavians for the Scandinavians and so on.





Wogan likes to think there's an imaginary wall running from the Arctic to the Adriatic, and nobody west of the frontier has won Eurovision for eight years.





We never take Eurovision as seriously as the Eastern European countries do (in fact, we don't take it seriously at all!).





Eurovision's just not about the music anymore. Austria even described it as "a political parade ground".





There's quite an interesting article about it in this week's Radio Times, where Wogan gives his view on the whole issue.
Reply:Same here. Unless they get someone equally as witty to do it. I can imagine Paul Merton or possibly Ian Hislop doing it. Report Abuse

Reply:Our song automatically qualifies along with a few other nations because we pay for it all. Lately it's not been much fun, because the since the Eastern European nations joined in, they only vote for each other so it's just become political. Also the votes now are quickly delivered so there's no tension. It's still a laugh tho, we take it all with a pinch of salt, but some of the other nations are so serious about it.
Reply:I don't particularly like it, but even if Europe loved it, they would never vote for us, because we are the UK. Eastern Europe all vote for each other and so do countries like Greece and Cyprus, and Portugal and Spain. Yet it seems Ireland and the UK would do the same, but we don't - we play fair, and vote for the best song in the contest. I'll be surprised if we ever win again tbh.
Reply:The UK automatically qualifies because it the largest contributor to the European broadcasting commission, as some one has already said we pay for others to cheat, sums up Europe as whole really doesn't it. Andy Abraham's Will fail miserabley but he can take comfort in the fact his head looks like a giant malteaser, so its not all bad.
Reply:It could be the best song in the world but no-one will vote for it because it's the UK entry





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Reply:The songs not as bad as some we've had, but all the same you'll notice all the countires next door to each other, (especially greece etc) always vote for each other, so we got no chance! Lol
Reply:I think our entry is terrible! Anyway, the voting always seems to be rigged so we won't win .
Reply:It will come about 30th - if we're lucky !

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