Shimrod this'll come as a shock but it isn't always about you. You have form on taking any comment I make and saying 'where did I say that?' I know you believe your regular session at the Finger and Tankard make you identify so closely with The Tradition that you believe the two are inseparable but it isn't so.

MM, rather than submit to the delights of prove it or take your punishment schoolmasterlyness I put it to you in all seriousness, do you not believe the English folk music scene since WW2, by which I mean the club scene, has emerged alongside and interwoven with the political left? Furthermore, can you not see evidence that the right are appropriating the music as they have elsewhere?

If you don't I won't ask to provide evidence as marshalling the discussion either way would take great effort but I believed it to be a self-evident truth.