It seems that some people are not that happy with my comments on Luke Kelly, Ewan Macoll, A.L.Loyd, Dick Gaughan and others as being paid up members of the Communist Party. Well, they were. They looked, for the most part, to the Soviet Union for inspiration. In the same way we do not allow the Daily Mail (a right wing popular newspaper in Britain) to forget that they supported the Nazis in Germany during the 30s, we should hold these ex-communists to account for their views, as well.

I should mention that I respect the above mentioned as both men and artists, but their politics was just wrong and bad and if their dream had come true, Britain and Ireland would have become Soviet style police states with a secret police, show trials, censorship, and with a complete absence of free speech and democracy. The economy which would have become stagnant and would have made the late 70s look like an economic powerhouse on a par with Japan, by comparison.