SIR – I despair reading letters like that penned by Carl Gresham (T&A, June 3) who says it is about time we pulled out of the Eurovision Song Contest just because other countries only awarded us ten points for our entry this year.
He contends they were just finding another way of telling us how they feel about the United Kingdom.
What poppycock! If that were so, how did we manage to reach fifth place last year with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s composition?
The fact is our representative, Josh Dubovie, is only an average singer who was asked to sing a song that even bookies offered 175-1 on winning.
Pete Waterman, who wrote it, said in an interview prior to the contest: “Deep down in my heart I don’t care how it does. It’s not the winning. There will be 200 million people watching my song. I’ll take that. That sounds good to me.”
Unfortunately it didn’t to anyone else.
David Rhodes, Croscombe Walk, Bradford
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