"It's very easy for one man to have political opinions. It's much harder for eleven people to agree entirely about anything so important."

It strikes me that that is a very 21st Century statement. Political animals of every stripe from the 19th and (mid-late) 20th century would probably find that quite an alien suggestion, and possibly quite a depressing one.

Isn't the whole point of democracy that people can have and express individual opinions? Why should 11 people be expected to share the same political views just because they are musicians?

I suspect John Tams only thinks it's a waste that Bellowhead don't do the "political stuff" because he assumes that their political stance would be the same as his.

Both comments seem to be based on the easy assumption that you can only be a folky if you're a dyed-in-the-wool lefty. There have been enough discussions about politics on here to show that isn't the case.