Countess richard, folk song has been political for centuries, or rather it has been used thus. If we think on the anti Union (1707) songs, the Jacobite songs, the Highland Clearance songs, the anti Polaris and republican songs right up to the present day then you must accept that these songs have a place in a music thread. I think it's time England put its opinion forward and I'm sure all 'us' non English inhabitants of this island would welcome it. But make them good songs.