Trust me Jack, no career will ever be upset, just because one person alone doesn't want to listen to them.
After all, in a Folk Club, for everyone who doesn't like political songs, there's bound to be ten who do.

You enjoyed the work of Alistair Hulett & that's fine for you & for thousands of other folk too, but that doesn't mean I have to like his stuff, or worse still pretend to like it, just because it's the done thing.

I'm asked here what I don't like to listen to, so I give my opinion & that after, all is what a forum is all about.

I suspect most folks who get involved with folk/traditional music, don't do so to become popular, after all, if that was their main reason, they'd be off playing Country & Western.

The fact is, I reckon this question is perhaps not specific enough, because of course, the UK is a big place & something that might go down well in a Folk Club above a Nationalist Pub in London, would probably not go down quite so well shall we say, in a Folk Club above a boozer in East Belfast.

The chances are, any overtly political song stands a pretty good chance of perhaps upsetting or worse still, offending at least someone in an audience & for that reason as well, I am not a fan of this form of communication.

At least in Hyde Park, if you don't like what someone is preaching, you can just move on!

Cheers
Dick