As for being "jingoistically liberal, I've not seen that.

There's a big difference between pushing an active socialist or liberal agenda and in trying to ensure that a *music and cultural* movement isn't taken over by an extreme organisation peddling hate, which is what has been happening in certain places in the UK.

If preventing a group like the BNP from taking over a non-political movement for political ends is "jingoistically liberal" then I'm afraid you have a strange definition of the phrase. There's no way I'm in any way a socialist, but I fully support any attempts to prevent the BNP from hijacking folk music for its own ends.

I don't actually know the politics of most of the people I play/ sing and listen with, but they drive everything from the latest model Mercedes to 20 year old Japanese hatchbacks, or nothing at all. The ones whose homes I'm aware of live everywhere from studio apartments in run-down tenements to 7 or 8 bedroom homes set in several acres of parkland. They do every kind of work from investment banker to office cleaner and all points in between. I imagine their politics are just as varied.