Will the UK still be in the Eurovision Song Contest?
amongst a load of different tough-hitting, critical implications the current Brexit vote will have on the UK, there is some thing else that the people of england have been annoying about: our region within the Eurovision music Contest.
Yeah, it really is right. As opposed to concerns over important such things as - you already know - the financial system, the fee of the pound or a potential housing marketplace crash, a few humans have readdressed their priorities and at the moment are stressful difficult facts about whether we're going to be allowed lower back in to the yearly display of extremely good trash that is the Eurovision music Contest. It was even trending on Twitter.
Pin ABBA again inside the correct old Eurovision days Getty advertisement - hold reading beneathhowever panic no longer. The worriers among us need not worry, for our place is secured. For the reason that international locations like Norway and Iceland - who additionally are not members of the european - have competed regularly in the contest, it's clean that this is not a opposition reserved simplest for international locations in the ecu Union. Well, PHEW.
In an try and reassure visitors, The Eurovision music Contest makers have taken to their facebook page to make clear the difficulty, and have even launched a complete assertion.
extra From Brexit: What takes place subsequent? 16 articles We is probably capable of opt-in to stay as european citizens... So has Brexit clearly been blocked from taking place... Younger human beings rejoice: the european is combating Brexit... We'd need a £50 visa to travel throughout Europe... Boris Johnson has announced he won't be jogging..."united kingdom, be welcome subsequent year!" the organization wrote on their facebook web page.
The factor is, we are not precisely famous as it's far in the competition and our go out from the eu possibly isn't always in all likelihood to improve that, so we will in all likelihood kiss goodbye to our chances of ever prevailing. Now not that that changed into ever a actual possibility in the first location.
You do recognize that we're by no means going to win the Eurovision song Contest again.
— luke haines (@LukeHaines_News) June 24, 2016
as though our possibilities of triumphing the Eurovision tune Contest ever again were not horrific enough. Jesus.
— Kai Wayne (@KaiWayne) June 24, 2016
In a complete assertion, the opposition manufacturers explained precisely why our departure from the ecu would not jeopardise our place within the Eurovision.
"The BBC is a Member of the ecu Broadcasting Union and is, and could remain, eligible to take part inside the Eurovision music Contest," they explained, including: "just like many broadcasters from nations that aren't a member of the ecu Union."
"The BBC and the United Kingdom have a protracted courting with the Eurovision track Contest. The BBC, representing the UK, will therefore remain a welcome participant inside the Contest subsequent 12 months and going ahead."
great, so we are able to all move returned approximately our weekends secure in the knowledge that not anything will trade next might also where Eurovision is concerned. Nicely it is a remedy.