"folk djs are fervently traddy" - you jest. Not what I was going to post about but my jaw just dropped when I saw the assertion.

The irony of this is that while I like folk music (or traditional accompanied and unaccompanied English folk song, to avoid having another definitions argument) I also like a load of other stuff, and I'm not actually a hard core traddy. Stuff I play (and sometimes play in folk clubs)includes

Play with Fire (Stones)
Substitute (Who)
Shooting Star (Bad Company)
Signed DC (Love)
Love has no pride (I forget the author, but the Bonnie Raitt version is well known)
I washed my hands in muddy water
This train
Tom Dooley
Worried man blues
St James Infirmary

and I'm working on a couple of Doors songs. Hate the Beatles though.

None of these are "folk" but I mention it to clarify what I actually do do.

What I do oppose however is:
These and other non-folk songs (and cuckoos from other traditions)being permitted to oust (English) folk song in and from England;
Folk song beng taken away from the people by arbiters of standards and taste;
Folk song becoming a product purveyed by the inner circle to humble acolytes who merely listen (and hence electric setups, unless you want something that can only be done with electrics, but even then it has IMHO to be done at the same sound pressure as acoustic instruments, otherwise you exclude acoustic instruments and voice).

I also object to the Irish and, worse, pretend-irish coming and singing with glee to me about killing (sometimes murdering) my countrymen past and present - would I survive if I took English military songs to a Dublin pub session?