Do we still care?

Does anyone in the UK still care about the Eurovision Song Contest?









OK, so Terry Wogan probably does after presenting the show for the past 312 years but apart from that, it's hard to find anyone who gives Eurovision the time of day.

Well Morrissey is apparently a fan as well and not only that, he doesn't like the fact that the UK doesn't win it anymore.

We had a fairly good spell in the late 90's. The UK won the thing in 1997 and came second in 1998, the first time that telephone votes from the public were used.

But since then we couldn't care less, partly because the UK song's points totals have barely scraped into double figures apart from 2003 when we got the dreaded 'nul points'.

But it looks like a case of Morrissey to the rescue. The former Smiths frontman wants to write the next UK entry after Daz Sampson's chav-fest last year came fifth from bottom. He believes that the problem isn't with an anti-UK attitude on the continent or an uncanny knack for countries in the Eastern block to vote for each other, but with the standard of music.

Regardless of what is actually the problem, I can't understand why artists don't avoid this poisoned chalice like the plague.
The chances of a UK entry winning are slim to the point of non-existent and when our entry does land back at Heathrow without the silverware, we'll all be demanding answers, heralding the death of British music and actually pretending to care - and it'll all be your fault.

Anyway, the chances of Morrissey reading this are pretty small and the chances of him taking on board what I say even smaller so Morrissey, if you do take on this thankless task, wake us up when you're finished.