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Offline bodrighywood

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Craft work is NOT creative. may become official
« on: May 08, 2013, 03:53:07 PM »
I am not one to sign petitions but this is just plain stupid. The government apparently wants to class craftwork as 'non creative.' If any else finds this as degrading and ridiculous as I do the address for the petition can be found here

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Re: Craft work is NOT creative. may become official
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2013, 04:33:07 PM »
Done.....depriving us of our rights to our own images last week, calling us non-creative this week....methinks Cameron and his chums are a bit out of touch with reality.
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Re: Craft work is NOT creative. may become official
« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2013, 05:16:22 PM »
Done-what a bunch of idiots our government is,

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« Reply #3 on: May 08, 2013, 05:29:11 PM »
Done

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« Reply #4 on: May 08, 2013, 05:32:55 PM »
Done.
I would like to know how we will be classified Will we be reclassified as Artists!!!

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Re: Craft work is NOT creative. may become official
« Reply #5 on: May 08, 2013, 05:35:54 PM »
Done- I cannot write what I think of this bunch of Etonians I would be thrown off the Forum The only Craft they Know about  is how to craft their expenses
off us. Regards John
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Re: Craft work is NOT creative. may become official
« Reply #6 on: May 08, 2013, 05:48:23 PM »
Well done Pete, I've added to it.

What next .. Wikipedia says this .... A craft is a pastime or a profession that requires some particular kind of skilled work. In a historical sense, particularly as pertinent to the Middle Ages and earlier, the term is usually applied to people occupied in small-scale production of goods. The traditional terms craftsman and craftswoman are nowadays often replaced by artisan and rarely by craftsperson (craftspeople).

Interesting also to the Artisan ... An artisan or artizan (from French: artisan, Italian: artigiano) or craftsman (craftsperson) is a skilled manual worker who makes items that may be functional or strictly decorative, including furniture, sculpture, clothing, jewellery, household items and tools or even machines such as the handmade devices of a watchmaker. An artisan is therefore a person engaged in or occupied by the practice of a craft, who may through experience and talent reach the expressive levels of an artist using his hands, mind and heart in his work and what he creates.

What part of these are our Government missing .. Brain cells ...  :o ..


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Re: Craft work is NOT creative. may become official
« Reply #7 on: May 08, 2013, 08:11:16 PM »
Pete,

thanks for finding this - duly signed.

What could the Government be thinking this for, does making us  'non creative' make us a different Tax bracket or ineligible for something?
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Offline bodrighywood

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Re: Craft work is NOT creative. may become official
« Reply #8 on: May 08, 2013, 08:27:00 PM »
One theory is so that they can take any of the arts and creative courses out of the National curriculum. Focus on so called vocational studies.

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Re: Craft work is NOT creative. may become official
« Reply #9 on: May 08, 2013, 08:36:50 PM »
Pete,

thanks for finding this - duly signed.

What could the Government be thinking this for, does making us  'non creative' make us a different Tax bracket or ineligible for something?


Bryan, very interesting, is there an underlying fact here as you've rightly considered.. time or investigating will as always tell ..

If you're classed 'non creative' you don't make an end product that can be offered to a market that might satisfy a want or need. Put a lot of us out of Business. There is something in what their up too. The one world order is at hand .. can't sell or buy .. or just have us all watching mind washing Soap TV.

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Re: Craft work is NOT creative. may become official
« Reply #10 on: May 08, 2013, 08:42:20 PM »
TV - I think there's one somewhere in the living room!

As for Soaps, we record them all - that way we can miss them as often as we like!
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Re: Craft work is NOT creative. may become official
« Reply #11 on: May 08, 2013, 09:01:24 PM »
TV - I think there's one somewhere in the living room!

As for Soaps, we record them all - that way we can miss them as often as we like!

 ;) ..  :) ..  ;D .. :D ..  :'( ..

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Re: Craft work is NOT creative. may become official
« Reply #12 on: May 08, 2013, 10:34:09 PM »
Done

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« Reply #13 on: May 08, 2013, 11:12:47 PM »
Done

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Re: Craft work is NOT creative. may become official
« Reply #14 on: May 08, 2013, 11:48:44 PM »
Hmm I have a great deal of trouble figuring out what goes through a Pollys head at times.  ??? Perhaps that my problem I assume that something is going through it.  :)

What on earth would be the need to go through such a change. What ever they hoped to gain would by far, be lost on the implementation and  administration.


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