Paul, yes I hear all you say but you miss the point, No-one's condemning Seth L (except for what all the Lakepersons & their various swains did in Equation . . . but I digress). He does what he does. We (well I am anyway) criticising Smoothops for creating a situation whereby his song The White Hare (no, nothing whatsoever to do with THAT White Hare) somehow, by a non-transparent process, became nominated for Best Traditional Track, and then compounding this unfortunate occurrence by not accepting the getout offered to withdraw the song.

Put as simply as possible, this is NOT a 'traditional track', but a recent composition of known origin. As I said earlier, it is a mildly folk-tinged pop song, based on a folk tale using a half-remembered (and certainly much altered), possibly trad tune. It is certainly NOT 'in the tradition. The recent work you and Liz have been doing is and I think you do yourselves a disservice by making such a comparison.