Colin Irwin wrote in Properganda;

Certainly those already suspicious of his background weren't especially enamoured by his fascination with Kipling, an India-born writer whose work became so closely identified with British imperialism that he was often accused of being a reactionary and thus anathema to the left-wing dominated folk movement. This bothered Peter – who regarded winding up the folk world's most popular and cherished precepts as something of a personal sport – not a jot.