I didn't ask, is it traditional - obviously it isn't - but is it folk.

As the consensus is that it isn't, can someone explain to me why a working class person writing a sincere and meaningful song about the working conditions in the industry in their own working class community, and performing it to a mainly working class audience isn't "folk"?

And mentioning the name of the band spoiled the point I was making.

I write as the son of a time-served joiner, and grandson of a factory worker; and on the other side, the son of a farmer's daughter, and whose grandmother was one of 13 children who all worked on the farm before they reached their teens. I am horrified to think that I may be the first person in several generations of my family not to be "authentic".