IB - I'm an English repat, who hasn't sung "Waltzing Matilda" or "I love to have a beer with Duncan" for years...I'd rather have a mead with you, mate!
It's pretty much as Howard said, although I, in turn, am baffled by his "ROFPML!"?
The "perform-your-own-national-culture", or "they show us theirs/we show them ours", way of English folk-clubs of olde, Don, was a good'n, that should be brought back in England and beyond...how's that?...does it lift YOUR forks? (And, having read further comments here, I think you all did get my somewhat off-beat drift, anyway.)

"I posted the Peggy Seeger piece at 12.34 p.m. on 3 October. Only a few miles above. My comment was:

This "policy", decided by the members of one club for that venue alone was to encourage performers to draw material firstly from their own background and experience and to sing it in their own voices in a language or dialect that they understood and used.

Martin Carthy (among others) has acknowledged the value and importance of this policy (whether instigated by Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger or A N Other) at that time because it encouraged the exploration of indigenous English music rather than tedious copying of the repertoires of the then prominent US artists.

Has WAV read it? What do you think?" (Diane)...whatever Martin may think of me, I agree with him entirely on this, and many other things he has been brave enough to say on the BBC.

And, Woody, what to do about it FROM NOW ON - re-education on many levels; the linking of English folk to English nationalism (as many Scots have unashamedly linked Scottish folk to Scottish nationalism); etc.