"The thing I fail to understand is why any self respecting morris side would want to be photographed posing with Cameron!"

"All I can say is the dancers in question can't be very good trade unionists."

"I still don't understand why any self respecting morris side would want to pose with Cameron, even if they are in disguise!"


Whatever the origins of the Morris (disputed, as we know), the reality, whether you like it or not, is that Morris dancing is now a largely middle-class pursuit. Many dancers are not left-wing activists or even left-wing sympathisers. There is no reason for the people quoted above to expect them to agree unquestioningly with the politics of the twentieth-century working class, or of agricultural labourers in previous centuries.