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Many mudcatters are perfectly content to sit in ther onanistic little groups in pubs, playing mediocre folk music to each other and stroking their beards and thinking how worthy they are in continuing the tradition, while in the world outside the people who work their arses off to help young musicians and to turn more people on to folk not only get hamstrung by the funding system but can't even rely on the support of others in the folk world, who fold their arms smugly saying "I told you so".

You sit there contemplating your bel cantos and your authenticity, Richard Bridge, until you disappear up your own backside. But when I think about all those soon to be lost opportunities for people to discover folk music I could cry.