I LOVE my job!

[REM]

Hello guys.

Just a thought, would you need a CRB check to do wedding photos given that kiddies will be present and likely photograghed? In a world where parents are prevented from snapping their own kids at a school play (just in case! just in case of what?? FFS) and a DJ aquaintance of mine has felt the need to get his own CRB check and produce business cards saying so, just to carry on doing weddings and other family functions, you can bet it's not far off.
Sad thing is there is no evidence that children are any more at risk these days than they ever have been and equally no evidence that despite the current checks, or the proposed wider rules, that they are any safer either. The world gets sadder by the day.

Regards

[DaveK]

Hello guys.

Just a thought, would you need a CRB check to do wedding photos given that kiddies will be present and likely photograghed?
Hope not or Hamish may be in trouble, the ready way he hands out bits of his private anatomy to others to hold whilst he is otherwise occupied Hamish, I would delete the relevant post from this forum just in case some politically correct 'jobsworth' finds it whilst they are reviewing your application for a CRB check. Seriously though, what is the world coming to??
Sad thing is there is no evidence that children are any more at risk these days than they ever have been and equally no evidence that despite the current checks, or the proposed wider rules, that they are any safer either. The world gets sadder by the day.
Sad but true, but it keeps lawyers, politicians (often the same people - coincidence?) and the growing rabble of PC 'do-gooders' busy!
Regards

My two penn'orth, anyway!
Cheers,
Grumpy of Sheffield.

[Steve Toy]

You will probably have to pay £64 and be on the Independent Safeguarding Authority register which will exclude anyone who has ever simply been accused of anything. This is a charter for allowing malicious accusations to very easily damage careers of the completely innocent.

Oh, if you work around kids and are not on the register you will face being fined up to 5 grand.

Our glorious Labour government!

[The Vinyl Adventure]

Currently ,and i stress the word 'crurrently', as a photographer who shoots a range of subjects, i dont need to be registerd. if i was specifically a school photo or child photographer i would need to be registered! because i dont do either of those things i am fine. i can take photos of childeren at weddings because, childeren go to weddings. i could even take a job doing a residential childerens party, as it is at the discresion of the parents! of course the parents would prob want me to be checked, as the government would have you belive anyone with a camera is likely a terorist! did you know, i can be held in custody for 28days (is it 28 now i cant remember) under the terorism act for taking a photo of a police station, as they could 'justifyably' asume i was a terrorist planning to bomb it!... who needs the magna carta eh? i just feel sorry for any asian photographers - can you imagine the greif they must get?! "ruck sack, turban, pointing a camera at a government building.... wheres my rifle"

as for the labour government... well they are driven by hype, the media, and what gets votes! NOT, unfortunatly, there suposed left wing views... although i cant think of anyone in the labour government who apears to be left wing ... hilary ben.. maybe? probably not.....

[Steve Toy]

They are no longer driven by the desire to win votes but to strip away checks and balances and basic freedoms. Security is always placed above liberty for this serves to justify mission creep towards authoritarianism and exerting limitless control over a fearful populace.

They have also learnt how to manipulate the mainstream press who were traditionally always against them, certainly under previous Labour governments.

This government is about gaining, keeping, maintaining and consolidating power above all else.

The ISA is not independent and it is not about protecting children. It is about creating a climate of paranoia and fear. It is also about raising revenue for another self-justifying parasitic goverment body.

[The Vinyl Adventure]

i think you are probably right on the money there!
arnt we a (justifyably) cinical bunch

[DaveK]

They are no longer driven by the desire to win votes .

Nor should they be IMHO. They are elected to do what's in the best interests of the electorate, irrespective of whether they voted for them or not, in other words for the country as a whole and not in the interests of those with power, influence and largely undeserved wealth, which appears to be the case now and has been for many years.
On a slightly different note, the Three Line Whip is the enemy of real democracy in that it facilitates dictatorship within a so called democracy. MPs are elected to reflect the views of their electorate and not those of a meglomaniac party leader - where's the democracy in that?
Cheers,
Grumpy of Sheffield

[Steve Toy]

They are elected to do what's in the best interests of the electorate, irrespective of whether they voted for them or not,

They certainly don't act in the interests of the electorate. They used to act in the interests of working class people. Now they don't even do that. The pecking order is as follows:

1) The Party
2) The Party
3) The Party
4) Importing future Labour Voters, i.e, the Party
5) Basket cases who are dependent on the state for their very existance who will show loyalty to the Party.

[Marco]

Boo... Politics - what a boring load of old pee-paw

It's about as interesting as examining the skidmarks on Steve's underpants after 'passing' a particularly sloppy jobby!

Get a life, people, and let's get back to photography

Marco.

[Steve Toy]

Marco, there are plenty of other threads for you to participate in. If the topic does not interest you, just say nothing.

It's that simple.

The rant is relevant to photography in highlighting the full extent of government meddling in our lives, including photography.