...asked about the exotic instruments you accompany E. trads with, IB, you know which country each comes from, and the way it is traditionally played there - but you can't stand the idea of England having suchlike, due mainly to your extreme pro-immigrationism. Whether or not you agree with the post-war mass-immigration, it's silly to deny that England was 50 years ago a much more English place, with less than 1/2 a percent of the population being immigrants. And when I hear and read that for centuries English did sing these E. trads unaccompanied, or that the English cittern was once very common in taverns and barber shops, I believe it to be, at least mostly, true; rather than believe someone who also comes up with conclusions like this...

"Hurrah for New Labour, bunch of mushy-mouthed motherfuckers the lot of them. Who gives a fuck what they think? It's all just spin & hype anyway."..."the lot of them"? (IB).

Also, racism is where someone says they are all like this or that; or I don't mind immigrants from that part of the world, but I hate ones from there, e.g. - which is NOT my argument; I've only questioned the act of immigration itself. Please don't confuse these, and stop making false defamatory remarks.