The (dis)unity of Europe is revealed again - eastern european nations cling to each other as if old alliances make sense! All, however, have the bulk of their youth flooding to western europe (would be interesting to see statistics!) and old traitors in the west vote, sycophantically, for the newcomers in the desperate hope for corporate contracts in the year to come!! W Europe, meanwhile, is paying through the nose for the health and welfare of the newcomers who could care less!! Old values are scorned soooooo publically!!
I love Terry Wogan's comments ..
Feel v sorry for Latvia - the group of tenors sang a fab song and performed v well but, frankly, no-one needs the country or its business!!
Funny how every nation speaks English apart from the French... I wonder what it must be like to live in a nation that in the last 70 years has been taken over by the Germans and Russians.
Europeans Cant build planes, play football, have a proper charts or speak English without a stoopid accent.
an embarrassment if ever there was one. Some dozy bint in a pink tutu who is obviously on drugs jumping around the place as I flick thru the channels..
Funny how all the eastern bloc countries stick together but even funnier how they all want to come to UK and work (illegally). They should ban this competition as it's a complete waste of time and money.
On what basis are we (the UK TV licence payer) subsidising one fifth of the overall cost of the Eastern Europe Song Contest (as reported in this week's 'TV Times')? This fiasco has long since been a , but now it is a political tool. Britain should dump it immediately.
Au contraire dear helimutt - I think the Eurovision voting is the one and only time in the European year when the views of the "people of Europe" (mostly E European living and working in W Europe) become clear! It is a chance to learn who is or wishes to be in bed with whom, who wants service contracts with whom, who is planning multi-national corporate takeovers etc etc ... it really is a fundamental, almost instinctive, knee-jerk reaction!
P.S. thank you Malta!! old alliances will in the end actually matter! Just give it time!
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The political voting was 90% correctly predicted by Wor Tel; to the point where it was laughable!
I thought Ireland would beat UK; I quite liked it but my vote went to Ukraine. Thankfully I was listening to that song away from the television otherwise I may have changed my opinion at the sight of Christopher Biggins in silver lamé and sequins!
The subsidy comes via the BBC since many countries' national broadcasters do not have the equipment nor the technology to be able to televise a show to so many other countries. We do.
Long may it continue. It's fun and enjoyable. Doesn't do anybody any harm to have their minds opened to the musical tastes of other nations
The 4th finalist was the only clear one who had no obvious allies and got where they were by their talent! (even if the belly dancers were english!) no one held it against them...hehehe
Ireland last, deservedly so. Can't remember who gave us five points but thanks anyway. Nothing from Britain though. What happened to block voting in this part of the world? We gave you seven. Terry Wogan was worried that Britain would get nul points but Terry tends to forget sometimes that he's Irish and that Ireland was always going to give some points to Britain no matter how bad the song Malta of course is still grateful for the medal so came up with the goods. Well you know who your friends are now. Britain has two but we only have one it seems.
Actually Ireland can be included in the block voting eastern European group. Did anyone notice that ten points were given to Latvia and twelve to Lithuania. That isn't because the Irish have suddenly developed a love of cack songs. That's because of the huge number of Latvians, Lithuanians and Poles living in Ireland these days. If Poland had been in the final. They would have got the twelve points.
I thought it was the campest ever Eurovision although ironically it was an old fashioned ballad that won it.
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The belly dancers were British and ...oh remind me ... to whom did UK give 12 points?
A lot of Western European countries didn't get through the semi-finals which is why I suspect, that this was particularly biassed voting. Why didn't they get through? 'Cos they've lost the plot and come up with crap songs.
The "new" countries to Eurovision actually seem to take it seriously and use some of their best talent in order to win; we use a bunch of 90s has-beens (sorry Scooch, but you are! ) and the Irish trot out every cliche they can think of (though it was still better than "something to suck on for landing sir!"). As for the French and German entries? Oh pur-leeze; torch-songs and chanson ain't going to do it.
, but now it is a political tool. Britain should dump it immediately.
It's fun and enjoyable. Doesn't do anybody any harm to have their minds opened to the musical tastes of other nations 
We gave you seven. Terry Wogan was worried that Britain would get nul points but Terry tends to forget sometimes that he's Irish and that Ireland was always going to give some points to Britain no matter how bad the song
Malta of course is still grateful for the medal so came up with the goods. Well you know who your friends are now. Britain has two but we only have one it seems.
