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It won't make the UK finish any higher, you know ...

I'll be surprised if it doesn't make us do worse!

Someone calculated the results based on last year's system:

Australia 320
Ukraine 279
Russia 240
Bulgaria 182
France 166
Sweden 156
Armenia 141
Lithuania 102
Belgium 89
The Netherlands 76
Latvia 75
Italy 69
Austria 69
Hungary 62
Serbia 61
Azerbaijan 55
Georgia 55
Cyprus 52
Poland 49
Spain 34
Israel 27
United Kingdom 27
Croatia 23
Malta 18
Germany 8
Czech Republic 1

Only seven countries gave vingt-quatre points to a song (i.e. the jury and the public agreed)

Azerbaijan and Belarus to Russia
Poland and San Marino to Ukraine
Russia to Armenia
Albania and Sweden to Australia

michael_churchill wrote:Question: Do we / the UK / the BBC have an obligation to enter the Eurovision Song Contest every year? If not, why do we bother?

If we vote for Brexit next month, can we stop???

The question is worth repeating.

We can stop, but not because we left! We could stop anyway

Being a member of the EU has nothing to do with being a member of the EBU. So we will continue to be in Eurovision, and will come even nearer the bottom now, as Europe will shun us for leaving.

Non-EU countries in this year's Eurovision:

Albania (16th in SF2)
Armenia (7th)
Australia (2nd)
Azerbaijan (17th)
Belarus (12th in SF2)
Bosnia & Herzegovina (11th in SF1)
Georgia (20th)
Iceland (14th in SF1)
Israel (14th)
(FYR) Macedonia (11th in SF2)
Moldova (17th in SF1)
Norway (13th in SF2)
Russia (3rd)
San Marino (12th in SF1)
Serbia (18th)
Switzerland (18th in SF2)
Ukraine (1st)

The top three were all outside the EU... I think we'll be fine.

Ah, right. So we'll just keep being given no points because we bombed all those countries. Cool.

And also, none of those countries have EVER been in the EU, so they can't piss everyone off by leaving as we've done.

It will be much better when the UK breaks up, we can form our own little voting block with England, Scotland and Wales all giving each other big points.
Having said that I forgot that the Scots and Welsh hate the English, so maybe not..!