Many of the countries that didn't vote for the UK entry will have mainly UK/US music in their own charts, only to vote for something they wouldn't normally listen to. The Scooch song wasn't that bad, the Sebian song wasn't that good and the Ukraine entry should have won for novelty value. However, if only four countries are making up the bulk of the funding, then this should be stopped and all countries should make an equal contribution.

David Leslie, Perth, Scotland

Our next entry for that absurd 'competition' should be a male welsh choir singing 'Men of Harlech' or a miners brass band, or perhaps a bagpiper playing a lament.
Let's show those bloc voters that we simply do not care: we British believe that taking part is what matters, and we will join in the fun in our own individualistic way.

Ken Mackenzie, LUTON, Beds

Nonsense. Scootch's song was simply, embarrassingly, AWFUL. Frankly it deserved no points at all. All the other countries in the final had better songs than we did (even Ireland, whose song was too celtic and folky for Eurovosion but which was still rather pleasant on its own terms). Indeed, most of the ones slung out of the first round were better songs than ours. Block voting isn't an issue if the music's good enough; ours wasn't even good enough for Teletubbies. Whereas, sung in English, at least half the other songs in the final could easily reach the top ten in the UK pop charts.

Pen, London,

Yes, it is fair.
I can only sympathize with "Scooch" that they did not make it to 24th.

MikeM, St. Albans, England

Lets face it the whole thing is a 'has been'. If Terry Wogan retires, will people even bother to watch it in the UK? Quite possibly not. We cant vote for ourselves, and lets face it, no-one else is going to. The songs are abysmal generally, it was good entertainment once but we've moved on. Its now just a joke to us, the Eastern Bloc countries take it far more seriously, and its a great method for their people to show their dislike for the Western World. The biggest joke of all, of course, is that we stump up the cash for the privelidge of being marginalised by them. Maybe its time we at least made the financial side fair and propose all countries who want to be involved make an equal contribution. Alternatively we could perhaps leave Eurovision to the Balcan states and think up a new musical extravaganza where the contributors are more worthy of our viewing time.

Steve, Birmingham, UK

You really think the Aussies would vote for us?

No, you are missing the elephant in the living room. Just as Yugoslavia broke up so as to multiply their voting weight, so we need to Balkanise this sceptre'd Isle. If England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales entered separately, we could vote for each other en masse. And why stop there? Cornwall, Wessex, Anglia, Mercia, Northumberland... the possibilities are endless.

Yet another concrete reason for the end of the Union. If we do not take it, I fear, we will face the charge of not taking the Eurovision Song Contest Seriously.

Lawrence, Contrawaberg, Kent

I don't think the 'Eastern European' countries really understood what Eurovision is all about. Great songs! Excellent voices! Sensible lyrics! Except that one about ponies. Still, the Russian entry wouldn't have been out of place at number one, performed by Girls Aloud. This is an outrage!

Jo, Cambridgeshire, UK

Or we could make friends with the French and Germans and form a bloc with them - they are equally bereft of friends in Eurovision and our three countries have intertwined histories thanks to Charlemagne (Franco-German), the Normans(Anglo-French) and of course the Anglo-Saxons which give our island a connection with Germany. We could admit Spain and Portugal to the bloc too given how many Brits and Germans live in those two countries, as well as Malta and Ireland (former colonies).

Et voila, enough points to win!

BP, Bournemouth, UK

I have a better idea. End the Union and grant full independence to the Crown Dependencies - and then watch as England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man, Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark all vote for one another.

It'd outvote the Balkan bloc.

Martin , Hereford, England