N0,Steve,
it brings in to focus that there is some truth in the asertion here
Sharp also saw folk song as a means of ‘stimulating the feeling of patriotism’, and by this he meant very specifically English patriotism. English education was, he said, ‘too cosmopolitan’ and bred ‘citizens of the world rather than Englishmen. And it is Englishmen, English citizens, that we want’.
we now have two seperate and unconnected [people asserting that he had an English agenda.
the above and the article in Musical Tradtions
are they both wrong .