One hesitates to stick a toe back in this pool but what the hell. It's the naivety of believing 'English' is an unproblematic term without a whole parade of signifiers and connotations marching on behind. For some it may be summoned by bells, cream teas and the lowing herd but if you're jewish, black, catholic, asian or an array of other legally, morally and historically other english categories, all of whom are trying to move beyond mild slights through to mass genocide it's a bugger to be hinted at that you're not the right sort. Even the right sort to know what a traditional tune is.

I'm not daft enough to think 'folk' don't hold these views and suspicion isn't evidence but FFS, give it a bone WAV.