I agree with a lot of what John P says, but I have to take eaception to his opinion "If you're not a member, you have no standing to say anything at all". This is pure baloney. The government, in its infinite wisdom, allocates funding to arts organisations by various routes, in this case chiefly through Arts Council England. Arts Council England in its turn assesses the merits of various organisations and people connected with folk music, and allocates funds to some and not to others. Now, it is entirely right and proper that any tax payer(or anybody else for that matter) who is interested in folk music should feel free to discuss this, to criticise, to enquire about the use the grants are put to, etc etc. It doesn't matter one jot whether you are a member of the EFDSS or not.
In this particular case, however, I haven't the remotest idea why Nick Hallam was sacked and will therefore not be passing an opinion(unlike some!).