Is it any wonder why young working class people are not drawn to Folk and Traditional music

Not really. It's not the current top twenty and has not been for more than 100 years.

Make of that what you will, but I am not passing a judgement, rather making an observation.

At the time that C# & Co were collecting, much of what was sung in the pubs and so on where they collected the tunes was essentially the popular music of their day. Things have changed since then.