Countryfile On Bbc

[emmie]

a third of vets come from overseas, according to countryfile, they maintain it's because many of the British vets don't want to do some of these jobs. Surely these are highly qualified jobs, why should this be the case.?

[emmie]

i can't provide any link. as this is on BBC now.

[fiction-factory]

Were they referring to vets who support farms and specialise in sheep and cows? Maybe our vets prefer to work indoors with pets or in zoos

[Zacs-Master]

Says half here:
Around half the veterinary surgeons registering to practise in the UK each year are from overseas

http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2016/10/19/brexit-damage-vets-warn-anti-foreigner-rhetoric-putting-peop

[Zacs-Master]

I'm not sure what Emmie means by them being highly qualified jobs and the link to overseas people taking them.

[emmie]

just said vets, but the other part of the programme was about foreign born workers on farms. How the farmers don't use British born workers because they don't want to do the labour intensive picking. These jobs used to be done by students and those who only wanted summer jobs, not now apparently.

[mikey4444]

Here in Swansea, we seem to have Vets coming out our ears.

An old Pub in my Village has now been turned into a Vets, and the vet and his wife are from Bavaria !

[emmie]

vets are highly qualified surely.

[Mamyalynne]

The way I interpreted it was that a lot of vets don't want the farming/outdoor type work, preferring pets dealt with in a surgery setting.

[Zacs-Master]

I know they're highly qualified but what does that have to do with people from abroad?

[emmie]

mamy
could be, but its disgraceful to have to employ so many foreign born workers to do the work. The two ladies they interviewed were from Romania, Spain, and were being trained how to do certain tests on cattle.
so vets spend all that time training, then prefer to tend to peoples pets.

[Mamyalynne]

I'm not knocking vets, they train hard for their qualifications, I'm simply saying that is how it came across.

[New Judge]

Yes I expect most vets prefer to vaccinate cats and dogs and give them their flea treatment to spending half the night in a cold barn with a soapy arm inserted up to the shoulder in a cow's backside feeling around her giblets. I imagine there's more money to be made as well.

[emmie]

The women were portrayed as vets,
NJ
perhaps that is the case, seems the days of Herriot country is long gone.

[emmie]

this is all to do with Brexit and seasonal workers.

[Togo]

Have all these foreign "vets" moved to the UK to treat the armed and dangerous foreign gangsters? Haha.

[Mamyalynne]

The programme covers a number of topics - seasonal workers and vets are two they have touched on tonight.

[emmie]

you misunderstand me, the programme was dealing with farmers who take on seasonal workers.

The vets were a different part of the piece, saying that a third of vets are foreign born, making it seem as though British vets don't want to get their hands dirty, as in on farms.