GUEST,DaveMc wrote: "My point is that Folk Music is certainly not discriminated against on grounds of it being too left wing. That may have happened in the dim and distant past but not for the last 20 years".

Maybe the issue here - as with a lot of things - is in definitions. 'Left wing' is often used as a fairly relative term and 'left vs right' is a fairly meaningless and antiquated way of looking at politics. A single axis approach really doesn't serve any political thinking too well.

The Political Compass site has a good/interesting page on UK political parties as they were in 2008 relative to where they were in previous years here.

A point lost on the BBC is that their take on cultural liberalism, which is presumably meant to be 'inclusive', can also be very excluding.