“ Maybe Tap management will do a better choice of song, it won't have a great effect on the voting sadly.”
I beg to differ on that: each year a fancied song nearly always wins and that song can be from anywhere: east, west, north, south.
If there’s dislike of the UK it’s more dismay that a country famed for its music doesn’t appear to make more of an effort.
Get a decent entry and you gave a chance at least of being up there
Look at Ireland: popular old Ireland you’d think, who used to win every year.
Now they hardly ever even make the final.
And it’s partly because their songs are hardly better or at least better equipped than the UK’s