It's a personal observation based on keeping both eyes and ears open but folk and nationalism are easy bed fellows. That provides an understandable enthusiasm for domestic traditional music with an endgame that finishes in the Balkanisation of the tradition - and we're not talking Tamburitzas.
It all relies on the goodwill of the individuals promoting the music, transparency at all levels, a willingness to answer questions and instill confidence in others, something that's been lacking in previous threads. It is not, given the signifiers that have attached themselves to St George's flag, incumbent on the cynics to prove their doubts.

Personally I find all organisations that promote indigenous music exclusively a bit suspect, or at least odd. At the very least they don't recognise historical strands, hybridisation and are overly keen to make one moment in time THE moment in time when it comes to arbitrating what is and isn't 'folk'.

I'd be quite keen on an English folk awards but it would have as many doors as fences and the grumpy would have taken their ball home long before the winners were announced.