has all the mass economic/capitalist immigration/emigration of the last century ended the rotten inequality in the world? No - the solution is, rather...

What you are proposing is a totalitarian world presided over by an absolute power, wherein everything last damn thing is regulated - policed by a higher authrority. Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. It couldn't work without the death camps for dissidents and undesirables of whom, I dare say, there would be millions, myself included. But no doubt that's all part of your plan. Read some history books, WAV - or look at some websites - see how absurd and unworkable such ideas have been proved to be. With every word you write you conform your self-obsessed reactionary right-wing racist agenda.

so all the talk from our elders of better community spirit, being able to leave their front door open without fear, etc., is nonsense?

Yes it is. Utter and absolute nonsense. The locks on our doors are the price we pay for freedoms inconceivable to our grandparents generation.

and one of the reasons I won't permanently "fuck off back to Australia" is because I genuinely DO like our English cultural heritage.

Which is why in the fifteen years you have been here, you have shown no effort to learn our music, our songs, our ways, our history, our culture. So why on earth did you come back anyway? If you can't assimilate yourself into our own good multi-ethnic culture of the United Kingdom as it is today, then, as I suggest, please go home and take your right-wing racist propagandising with you.

Just as you moved to the North-East because it has the lowest percentage of ethnic minorities in the UK (just 3.6% of a national average of 13.1% - as oppose to an obviously intolerable 7.9% in your native North West - see Here) you came to Mudcat because you mistakenly assumed Folkies would by predisposed to your nauseating vision of a mono-cultural England. Trouble is, at the heart of Folk Music is the very soul of Humanity, of an enlightenment the nature of which is evidently inconceivable to you.

As with England, so in Mudcat and the Folk Scene as a whole. You're in the wrong place, Wavy.