Bert Lloyd died 27 years ago and Ewan MacColl 20 years ago (next month). But as soon as their names are even mentioned all of these MacColl and Lloyd haters leap out of the woodwork to beat on their dead corpses ... why? It seems to me to be an enormous over-reaction.
So they were both controversial figures, but they were both great artists and if it wasn't for them we probably wouldn't have had a post-war folk revival.