UK's Second Is Really First In Eurovision 2022

As expected, Ukraine won the Eurovision song contest despite having a song which would in normal circumstances see them finish the night on the right hand side of the final scoreboard along with the UK so we can legitimately look at whoever finished second as the 'real' winners and if we look real hard, rub our eyes and pinch ourselves that it isn't all a dream, in second place sits the United Kingdom.
Our entry, 'Spaceman' by Sam Ryder, was a decent song and Sam never stopped smiling and thanking everyone and came across as a genuinely nice young man but what comes across with clarity is that if we enter a decent song, Europe will vote for us.
I never went along with the we-get-nil-points-because-Europe-hates-us nonsense, it was purely down to the songs that we have entered have been dour and boring and that good old British arrogance that we are right and it's a British song therefore brilliant and how cloth-earred are you Europeans if you don't just hand us the trophy every year. WE GAVE THE WORLD THE BEATLES AND ADELE FOR CRIPES SAKE!!!!
I hope Sam goes on to have a successful career and keeps smiling and congratulations to Ukraine, you may no have won the Jury vote (we did), but you won the public vote which pushed you past us to the top although as it turns out, we may be hosting it next year anyway due to Kiev being not the safest place to host a song singing competition at the moment.
The rules are if a nation is unable to host the contest, then it goes to one of the big five which are Italy, Spain, Germany, UK, France and Italy have made no secret that as they hosted it this year, they don't want it again next year so it is a fight out of the other four and the BBC were fast out the blocks with 'We'll do it' so we could all be in London next May anyway and as London is full of Russians, in some ways, it would be just like Ukraine anyway.