Surely no-one wants to/can aford to win this year. Given all the austerity measures?
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Surely no-one wants to/can aford to win this year. Given all the austerity measures?
Stick Wilko in.
Cakewalk.
or any year
Someone watching the one show???
I don't like that we pay into it. I would rather that money be spent keeping F1.
In 2008, the BBC defended using spending money from licence fee payers for the contest when Liberal Democrat MP Richard Younger-Ross had tabled a Commons motion which called on the corporation to withdraw its £173,000 funding for the annual contest. That same year former Eurovision commentator Sir Terry Wogan claimed that the show is "no longer a music contest" after the result was announced.
On radio 2 today it was suggested that our chances of winning this year would be increased by simply taking 10% of the Cypriot votes.
Someone watching the one show???
I don't like that we pay into it. I would rather that money be spent keeping F1.
In 2008, the BBC defended using spending money from licence fee payers for the contest when Liberal Democrat MP Richard Younger-Ross had tabled a Commons motion which called on the corporation to withdraw its £173,000 funding for the annual contest. That same year former Eurovision commentator Sir Terry Wogan claimed that the show is "no longer a music contest" after the result was announced.
Bonnie Tyler woo woo!
Someone watching the one show???
Who....me?
If you believe the mail online, in 2012 the cost to the BBC of entering was £310,000. The argument the BBC put forward is balance against how much actually programming material you get and the level of the spectacle, it's quite good value.
We pay, so does Germny, France and the rest. We have a chance this year.
Bonnie Tyler will do it.
Bonnie Rait'll no do it.
We pay, so does Germny, France and the rest. We have a chance this year.
Bonnie Tyler will do it.
If previous years are any gauge, I'm willing to bet something substantial that we don't do well at all.
- what the skull for ? But I like it, the skull that is.
Bonnie Rait'll no do it.
If Bonnie Rait was singing I'd watch but the Tyler no, not for me, she sounds like she smokes a thousand cigs a day
That was a measured response Yella
That was a measured response Yella
I can be measured at times, well I'm 5ft 5in but no need for any other measurements
Many have tried tried to emulate Bonnie Rait's song "I Can't Make You Love Me" no one comes close to her version imo Brits taking part in Eurovision is a kiss of death