I'm no great fan of Sheeran; he was just an example. The point I was making is that we could send any famous, internationally recognised British singer to Eurovision and they wouldn't win.
Disagree.
Theres no political conspiracy here, our performance in Eurovision is directly correlated to the quality of our entry. This year's was shite, we deserved nothing and got nothing. Strong singers but an absolutely awful song. Did anyone genuinely expect us to have a strong showing with that?
In 2022 our entry, Sam Ryder - Spaceman, was decent and we won the judges vote. Only a public sympathy vote, understandably, for Ukraine stopped him winning overall.
Olly Alexander and Mae Muller in 23 and 24 respectively were both dreadful and bombed. The last two and half decades of British entries to this competition are just one long list of mediocrities interspersed with 2 or 3 decent entries.