Royaume Uni dix points?

The BBC's decision to choose Engelbert Humperdinck to sing for the U K in this year's Eurovision Song Contest may seem at first sight rather strange, but could in fact be quite a smart move.  Although his glory days over here are behind him, he is currently well known and popular in some of the Eastern European and Scandinavian countries who do not traditionally vote for us, so we might garner a few extra points on the back of his popularity in those areas.  Anyway, we can't do much worse than the last few years, can we?