Get a grip Phil.

I have been called a goose stepper, Gestapo, irrelevant, hater of folk music and lots more besides by Jim on the basis of laughing at his absurd notion that if you can copyright it, it isn't folk or if it doesn't fall into some weird 1954 category, it isn't folk, even though folk music as a genre took off after the committee had adjourned.

It is my reactions not my origins that are called boorish.

Music is fun. The UK folk scene has and hopefully always will be an outlet for home grown talent and an arena for those who wish to share their love of music regardless of their own prowess. To say that a folk song isn't folk because Martin Simpson wrote it or because Jim doesn't have a 1/4" reel of an old diddy singing it is preposterous.