British Eurofans Score A Huge Own Goal

On Friday night about 1200 mainly British fans turned up at a preview party at Londons Scala venue where several of the 2008 entrants performed. By all accounts it was a terrific success. As well as the entrants who performed, Dustin the turkey was interviewed by host Paddy O'Connell and, not surprisingly, was booed. We all know that Dustins timely attack on the current state of the contest has divided opinion, to say the very least. But UK performer Andy Abraham came on, and he also was apparently widely booed. Why? something he said? some devious cheating that won him the UK final? .......... Well no, these are British Eurovision fans booing their own representative because they don't like his song. Well done guys (and they were almost exclusively guys to be sure). These are the people who probably think Nicki French should represent us every year.

The BBC's support for the contest is on the table as rumours grow of Sir Terry's defection to ITV (or just plain retirement) and without Wogan the Eurovision's place on a BBC1 saturday night schedule is highly dubious. Andy Abraham is a classy singer and a lovely guy who deserves much better than boos from a bunch of hissy queens who may well wake up one morning and find there are no more British Eurovision parties, in part because of them.

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