David,
    Spoons are just spoons. They can be played in any country as a form of percussion, as can tin cans, stones and glasses. And one memorable time when I was in Australia playing English music, possums...folk tend to play what they can get their hands on in the real world, that's folk music for you.
Not everyone has a recorder shop nearby...specialised folk music instruments are often very expensive. Are normal people supposed to save up until they can afford their culture? Or do they just make do with a plastic recorder from school...which I still have, but I stopped playing just the one line of melody as soon as I discovered there were other instruments that could do so much more with the English music that I love. Real people tend to do that, ordinary people, to the bafflement of higher authorities and stone-cold academics, love exploring the boundaries of music and poetry unless under the yoke of a proscriptive regime...and then you no longer have a natural, living culture: you have a dictatorship.
And by the way, Dad developed his signature guitar style by among other things listening to Big Bill Broonzy. It's the thumb. And the provenance, as most folk musics, including the Blues, are inextricably connected through hundreds of years of interaction and a struggling tradition such as ours can learn to communicate from another without shame. Or perish, as ours was close to doing for whatever reason. They can also still be unique, it doesn't necessarily follow that you end up with bland musical soup.
Spoons are not a musical instrument though the playing of them was as popular in Ireland as here, and surely anywhere where anyone wanted to join in by hitting something. As much as it really pains me to say this because "spoons" is also one of my favourite words, you cannot claim them for England whether you put it in bolshie capital letters or not.
Fool. Again you queer this cause with ignorance and intransigence. You play right into the hands of anyone that has ever questioned the worth of the English music debate.
Why do you still come here? If it was to spread your word I think by the weight and volume of the correspondence against you by now it should be clear that you have failed. Go away if you don't want to learn anything, stay if you do, be quiet for a bit and learn something man. You are not a radical. You're a steamroller and you're not even halfway informed. It won't work, I've tried it, all you will do is piss people off and eventually they will just laugh at you. And by association the cause that you promote.
eliza