Two-Fingers Leonard contradicted his own criteria for entry qualification to the Best Traditional Track category, which are:

The best performance of any traditional song or tune on CD released during the past 12 months. This is a category designed to recognise the work of people recording traditional material. It is to be a new recording of a traditional song, from any tradition.

This is not the same as what he said, which was:

My personal definition of a 'traditional' track is any piece of music where we cannot identify the original author and where the song has passed through many hands in an oral tradition, as seems to be the case with Seth's version of 'The White Hare'. Seth and his band obviously came to the same conclusions, because on both versions of 'Freedom Fields', the song is credited as traditional.

Whatever. Neither can be applied to The White Hare.

He also raised the entirely irrelevant issue of PRS which would make not the slightest difference because you get the same money for Trad/Arr as you do for a wholly self-written song.

The only new thing he actually said was that the number of votes cast for the top four in each category will be published after 5 February on the website.

Dave Eyre was clear and concise, John Leonard was his obfusticating self. Nothing new there.