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One question, what Wally choses the British act to go to Europe, and how much money do they pay to be picked. Surely we have far singers and groups than what went in our name, and if we don't then things have come to a sorry state.

Lol, dunno.

By the way thy said that they were so poor because 'monitors were off'.

Yeah, OK

We could have put in Frank Sinatra in disguise and we still would have scored 0 points for two reasons.

1.) Because it has nothing to do with the music, it's only political

2.) He's dead

I cannot believe how supposed developed nations can act so child like and petty. Bring back the British Empire, let's instill some respect into these monkeys.

TheMirror wrote:
RIGGED? OF COURSE IT IS
By Patrick Mulchrone

A DAILY Mirror investigation of Eurovision Song Contest voting records confirms what everyone always thought - it's rigged.

Forget Eurovision legends such as Abba, statistics show that international love-hate relations count for more than music.

For example Greece always votes for Cyprus, and vice versa. Since 1975, Greece has awarded a total of 124 points to Spain, 100 to France - and 157 to Cyprus. Cyprus gave 63 to Britain, 90 to Ireland... and 172 to Greece.

The Scandinavian countries, Norway, Denmark and Sweden also give each other large percentages of the vote. However, since 1975 Britain has scored the most points - 2,753 - of any competitor.

Terry Wogan's theory of a backlash over Iraq holds water.

Over the years, Germany and France gave most of their votes to Britain - until last night.

I say no more...

Ok then, nobody in Europe likes us cos we dont want to play with them anymore, Uncle Tone says we have to play with the rich kids over the water cos we get to join in all their great games...

Oh and the group were crap anyway! Its great what a bit of recording studio trickery can do isnt it?

I think that just about covers it all really!

One question, what Wally choses the British act to go to Europe

Errr ....the british public get to vote for the song to represent us in europe.

Did anyone else who watched it think Lorraine Kelly was just a little bit VERY pissed when she was giving out the scores?

Skiffle, they used to do that many years ago, but BBC alwys chose the songs and singers that you could chose and that range was very limited.
I wonder what would happen if we stopped going to the damn thing.

I am glad I did not watch all of it, because from the highlights I saw we where shit. WHY O WHY did we enter them ??

Russia have launched a massive official complaint claiming its "fixed"!!

good grief really?

apparently the uk shouldnt have given them zero, so they are launching an appeal

Did we give them 0?

Everyone gave us 0 points.

are you serious

I noticed that TATU did not get freaky on stage like they said they would, that's probably why they did not win.

Shame on you girls

When did Russia become a member of Europe?

TheCount wrote:Did we give them 0?

are you serious

yep
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Russia have made an official complaint about their Eurovision Song Contest entrants Tatu's third place result.

Click here to see pix of Eurovision 2003
The country's TV station Channel One, which is owned by the Russian government, want an appeal - or re-think - on the results.

They say the girls have had hits all over the world and were robbed of a win because they were given "unlikely low points" by certain countries.

A Channel One spokesperson claimed a technical hitch meant the Republic of Ireland's public votes couldn't be collected and counted.



Turkey's prize

Instead, a jury decided who should get what points, he said.

Because there was only a three point difference between the winners Turkey and Tatu, the Russians think this could have made a huge difference.

Rules followed

Bosnia-Herzegovina and Russia also used a jury instead of public votes because they didn't have the right telephone system to cope with national voting.

A spokesperson for the competition organisers, the European Broadcasting Union, told Russian journalists: "All the rules were followed."

The Eurovision Song Contest has always been complete tosh, why did any of you watch it? You should all get out more, the lot of you, join a club, go to the pub, talk to people, anything but watch the Eurodismal Tosh Contest.

Right now I'm off to watch Neighbours.