Therein lies a problem. If you had heard Peter Bond songs you would know that many are about workers and their condition. Songs about Industrial Disease, songs about children being killed in mining disasters, a song about a Rugby player who everyone has a good word from and who was mourned by a vast swathe of people. Songs about Larks flying across vapour trails, songs about the stillness that the snow brings. Beautiful songs, eloquent songs.

The archaic definition set down in 1954 precludes such songs being considered folk and is it's fundamental failure because it allows a few people such as yourself to say "that is not folk"

Utter tosh, rubbish and nonsense. That is why people like myself, and I would think, most people on this site think the definition has outlived it's usefulness .......... if it ever had any.