Look Dom = put it another way

! Best songwriter Big Al Whittle
2. Best Folk Duo No Fixed Abode
3. Lifetime Achievement Award Derek Brimstone
4. Best folk artist Jack Hudson


Its bollocks, isn't it? You want to join up with the bumkissers and sycophants. do so, and Merry Christmas to you. Pull a cracker and think about every bugger who puts in a lifetime of artistic endeavour, or flogs hopelessly round the low paid gigs of England with no recogntion, from those who have the power to confer it.

Thatcher used to call it the politics of envy, and say everybody who was poor richly deserved it and should get on their bike.

The folkworld has been Thatcherite in principle since time begun. Thatcher only bankrupted and closed down British manafacturing industry. the movers and shakers of the folkworld have shut down a whole artistic movement - and all the real folk of England have voted with their feet. A scale of disaster, Thatcher could only dream and fantasise about.

And a happy new year.