Pity Stewart Lee didn't look at Peggy Seeger's statement about what actually occurred at the Ballads & Blues. To say that "Ewan MacColl decreed that is you were English you couldn't sing a Scots song and if you were Welsh you couldn't do an English one" is patent nonsense.

The policy formulated by members (not MacColl) was: if you were singing from the stage, you sang in a language that you could speak and understand.