As the contest now includes non-European nations such as Israel, it is becoming more of an international affair and with an audience of over 250 million, the Eurovision song contest is quite right to call itself the 'Worlds Largest Party' and a few years ago the spangly invite went out to Australia to join in.
Not exactly a hotbed of musical talent, Australia may seem a strange choice but it turns out that Eurovision is massively popular in Australia and has been broadcast annually to the country probably farthest away from Europe for the past 30 years.
The Eurovision purists don't like it and say that they should start their own song contest with New Zealand and the Soloman Islands if they like it so much.
It's been two decades since the UK won the Eurovision song contest and we haven't bothered the top of the leaderboard since and wheel out the 'It's not about winning but the taking part' mantra but in all honesty, winning it would be nice and last year we actually had a very good song but had the bad luck of picking the same year that Ukraine was invaded by Russia and they won the 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.
Ukraine may have won it but we are hosting it this year due to Kiev being not the safest place to host a song singing competition at the moment.
So the UK probably won't win it this year and will invariably find ourselves on the wrong side of the screen with the other spotty, wheezy unpopular kids such as France and Moldova but i will still be on my sofa with my homemade scorecard and a blind optimism that this year, the UK can win the bloody thing which will last about 10 minutes into the voting section when it will become obvious that we won't.
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