My tuppeny regarding "the hammering of English culture", is that the English themselves hammered it, through 'our' dominator expansionistic Empire. The Empire became bloated on the fat of other nations, it became affluent, lazy and complacent in it's assumptions of natural superiority to all other cultures and races.
In the South-East especially, the English 'aspirational classes' (Ikea and Panini) are to a far greater degree responsible for the abandonment of native culture, in favour of more 'sophisticated' ideals, than any amount of immigrant cultures (who to their credit and our benefit, seem to manage to *maintain their own cultures exceedingly well, outside of their own lands..)

So Loadsa Money loves traditional English folk music now after swilling several pints of continental lager and wearing Chelsea shirts pumped out in some Indian sweat shop...
How intriguing.
The last popular traditional English song I recall these boys singing was "there ain't no black in the Union Jack".
Perhaps the ever generous Mudcatters on here might enlighten these born-again tradionalists, that if they want to be strictly 'traditional' they should be singing ye olde refrain "there ain't no black in the Union Flag", but sadly that 'un don't rhyme.
Which makes it a bit inconvenient for tiny minds.

Still, all bollox aside, I'm very interested in the fascist appropriation of 'traditional English culture', is it a latent problem in folk music, or is it a developing one? What's the deal?