It was Boris that done it. Watching BBC news this morning, had to laugh about how it was a great song and politics were kept out of it.
Boris Johnson put Sweeden and Finland under the UKs nuclear umberella a few days ago indicating that the UK is willing to defend Europe to the last. Meanwhile, German and France, who incidentally came last.., are much less bullish over defending Europe and Ukraine and seem to be happy to negotiate away Ukrainian land.
Do not get me wrong, I am not a fan of Boris, but his government has done quite well in quietly telling Russia to go fuck itself – Europe can see that. That is why we got second.
Edit: not to take anything away from the lad who came second though, he gave it his all, he wouldn’t have come second immediately after BREXIT.
As a massive Eurovision fan…
1) fans were begging the BBC to actually try… So the BBC changed talent agency that were actually credible. They changed tactic on how to actually select the talent.
2)they finally hired someone new for the staging which was talented. The past UK entries had terrible staging.
3) a month prior to eurovision, all the acts go on tour to different cities in Europe. They have quite big audiences and so the acts usually go to promote their songs. The countries then recognise other countries songs. It’s a great oppurtunity but the UK acts never took advantage of this and always opted out of doing it. Sam Ryder actually got involved.
4) they played the game and made slight changes to the song by final, by adding suprises on the performance. The radio song didn’t contain the guitar solo, they added that part only close to the finals.
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It was Boris that done it. Watching BBC news this morning, had to laugh about how it was a great song and politics were kept out of it.
Boris Johnson put Sweeden and Finland under the UKs nuclear umberella a few days ago indicating that the UK is willing to defend Europe to the last. Meanwhile, German and France, who incidentally came last.., are much less bullish over defending Europe and Ukraine and seem to be happy to negotiate away Ukrainian land.
Do not get me wrong, I am not a fan of Boris, but his government has done quite well in quietly telling Russia to go fuck itself – Europe can see that. That is why we got second.
Edit: not to take anything away from the lad who came second though, he gave it his all, he wouldn’t have come second immediately after BREXIT.
As a massive Eurovision fan…
1) fans were begging the BBC to actually try… So the BBC changed talent agency that were actually credible. They changed tactic on how to actually select the talent.
2)they finally hired someone new for the staging which was talented. The past UK entries had terrible staging.
3) a month prior to eurovision, all the acts go on tour to different cities in Europe. They have quite big audiences and so the acts usually go to promote their songs. The countries then recognise other countries songs. It’s a great oppurtunity but the UK acts never took advantage of this and always opted out of doing it. Sam Ryder actually got involved.
4) they played the game and made slight changes to the song by final, by adding suprises on the performance. The radio song didn’t contain the guitar solo, they added that part only close to the finals.