This whole brewha comes out of an explicit effort by the BNP to coopt English folk music as a tool for the promotion of virilent racism. A lot of decent people over there are trying to counter that. Conrad has been taking every possible tack, over and over, to argue against their efforts: "it's unfair, it's a one-sided political agenda, it's not good for the over-all health of the folk music scene". For some "silly" reason, this constant harping has made a lot of us more than a little suspicious as to Conrad's own
"silly" stance, and whether he is a person we would want to associate with.