So it costs loads of money to host. The voting system is political, and we (The UK) get wound up about "block voting".
Well this year we're pulling out the big guns with Engelbert Humperdinck, who last had a top 20 hit 40 years ago.
We haven't got a cat in hell of winning this year. And no one has heard the song. But I think the EU hates us at the moment.