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The MP who says a badger cull could lead to human fatalities. This is | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
going to take place during night- time so it will be dark. How do you | :00:56. | :01:06. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 1776 seconds | :01:06. | :30:42. | |
keep people off the land if you Hello, and welcome to the Politics | :30:42. | :30:46. | |
Show in the South West. This week, a house of Lords | :30:46. | :30:51. | |
committee warned that patient 50 is being put at risk by doctors and | :30:51. | :30:56. | |
nurses who cannot speak good English. It is against European | :30:56. | :30:59. | |
rules to test the language skills of health professionals from other | :30:59. | :31:04. | |
European states. There were new powers announced last month but | :31:04. | :31:09. | |
negotiations about changing the law are ongoing. The Devon MP and GP | :31:09. | :31:13. | |
says there should be a Europe-wide register of doctors to protect | :31:13. | :31:23. | |
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patients. Around 3,000 doctors who trained in | :31:26. | :31:30. | |
the EU registered to work in the UK last year. Foreign doctors play a | :31:30. | :31:40. | |
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crucial role in the NHS. I was very sick but I do not think the doctor | :31:58. | :32:02. | |
realised I had swine flu. I said I had stolen pains but he did not | :32:02. | :32:06. | |
really understand what I meant. -- stomach pains. He did not | :32:06. | :32:10. | |
understand the area of my body. you have passed exams to be | :32:10. | :32:16. | |
embedded in the EU you have the right to work in the UK. -- eight | :32:16. | :32:24. | |
medic. The upper Tees cannot Testa English. -- authorities. Some | :32:24. | :32:32. | |
people think this amounts to double Sarin -- standards. It seems | :32:32. | :32:36. | |
nonsensical that it does not apply because of where they come from. | :32:36. | :32:40. | |
Particularly because there have historically been more affiliations | :32:40. | :32:44. | |
between English medical skills and those in the colonies such as | :32:44. | :32:49. | |
Australia and New Zealand, and those in the EU. Daniel lost his | :32:49. | :32:54. | |
life because of a German doctor's mistake. He was killed by a massive | :32:54. | :32:59. | |
dose of a common painkiller. It was the doctor's first shift in the UK. | :32:59. | :33:04. | |
He had got on to a list of practising GPs. One of the issues | :33:04. | :33:11. | |
in this case was his poor grasp of English. We need foreign doctors in | :33:11. | :33:15. | |
the NHS. We couldn't function without foreign doctors. The vast | :33:15. | :33:20. | |
majority of them are perfectly competent and can communicate in | :33:20. | :33:28. | |
English language but there are loopholes that allow EU doctors, | :33:28. | :33:33. | |
who are incompetent and can communicate, into this country. | :33:33. | :33:38. | |
a bunny had European qualifications so it would have been illegal for | :33:38. | :33:43. | |
his clinical or language skills to be checked before he worked in the | :33:43. | :33:49. | |
UK. It is all to do with freedom of movement for EU workers. It has | :33:49. | :33:52. | |
always been the responsibility of the employer to ensure staff are | :33:52. | :33:58. | |
competent. Although he got on a list run by NHS Cornwall he never | :33:58. | :34:03. | |
worked for them. The trusts is it that asks for a lead and which test | :34:03. | :34:07. | |
certificate for all non UK qualified doctors. -- a language | :34:07. | :34:13. | |
test. A house of Lords report this week calls for a stronger checks on | :34:13. | :34:23. | |
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doctors and nurses walking across Earlier this month, the government | :34:31. | :34:35. | |
introduced stronger safeguards. All NHS employers have to make sure | :34:35. | :34:41. | |
they are happy doctors are Plymouth in English. A named person in each | :34:41. | :34:44. | |
organisation has to take responsibility for this. The | :34:44. | :34:47. | |
General Medical Council has been given stronger powers to | :34:47. | :34:51. | |
investigate if concerns are raised after someone starts working in the | :34:51. | :34:54. | |
UK. Some people feel that these government changes do not go far | :34:54. | :35:01. | |
enough. My father died just because of this system that is in place at | :35:01. | :35:08. | |
the moment. I understand that it is going to be tightened up by making | :35:08. | :35:12. | |
irresponsible of us are accountable for testing in -- English language | :35:13. | :35:17. | |
and clinical Competency and make that mandatory. It is tightening up | :35:17. | :35:21. | |
the rules but you have still got a two-tier system and the gold | :35:21. | :35:27. | |
standard must be to test the doctors at point of registration. | :35:27. | :35:31. | |
Former GP and Thomas Empey Sarah Wollaston thinks there register | :35:31. | :35:41. | |
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would be the best way forward. -- They will be tested before they can | :35:45. | :35:48. | |
start to practise. We want to see them going further and over the | :35:48. | :35:53. | |
next few years of making sure that organisations like the GMC and the | :35:53. | :35:58. | |
nursing council have access to a single point of contact when they | :35:58. | :36:08. | |
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can check that there are concerns about doctors in their own country. | :36:09. | :36:12. | |
Proposals are expected by the end of the year. They could recommend a | :36:12. | :36:15. | |
tightening of the rules but it will take at least another year for the | :36:15. | :36:21. | |
changes to come in. Just days after coming to power the | :36:21. | :36:24. | |
government committed itself to a badger cull as part of a package of | :36:24. | :36:30. | |
measures to tackle the mounting problem of bovine tuberculosis. 18 | :36:30. | :36:33. | |
months on it is unclear whether it will happen. Ministers are | :36:33. | :36:37. | |
finalising their response to the second consultation on the proposal. | :36:37. | :36:42. | |
Meanwhile, as MPs debated the issue again on Tuesday, it was clear | :36:42. | :36:50. | |
passions on both sides remain as strong as ever. | :36:50. | :36:54. | |
We should now be close to finding out whether the coalition | :36:54. | :36:58. | |
government will authorise a badger cull. If it does so, in the first | :36:58. | :37:03. | |
instance that will only mean to pilot culls but even that will | :37:03. | :37:08. | |
provoke furious opposition and eight legal challenge. This week | :37:08. | :37:13. | |
that plans ran into criticism in the Commons. One Labour MP has | :37:13. | :37:17. | |
suggested that if the government authorises a badger cull, human | :37:17. | :37:22. | |
lives could be put at risk. I caught up with Mairead London, the | :37:22. | :37:29. | |
MP for North Tyneside, and pressure on the issue. -- I caught up with | :37:29. | :37:34. | |
the MP for North Tyneside. You are suggesting lives could be at risk. | :37:34. | :37:42. | |
Is that not alarmist? If there is a colt there has been no money | :37:42. | :37:47. | |
committed for safety to actually police and keep the protesters and | :37:47. | :37:51. | |
anyone else, perhaps even those carrying out the cull, saved. It | :37:51. | :37:57. | |
would cost �200,000 a year in policing alone. That has not been | :37:57. | :38:02. | |
costed into the cull. The home secretary has actually said that | :38:02. | :38:09. | |
the money is not coming from there and DEFRA is making cuts, so who is | :38:09. | :38:14. | |
going to pay for it? You are suggesting that protesters might | :38:14. | :38:19. | |
end up getting shot by accident? Yes, that could easily happen. This | :38:19. | :38:24. | |
is going to take place during night-time. It will be dark. How do | :38:24. | :38:31. | |
you keep people off the land if you haven't got it properly marshalled? | :38:31. | :38:35. | |
As the farmers are going to be responsible, who will advise them | :38:35. | :38:39. | |
about that if there are no police around? When you say about it that | :38:39. | :38:45. | |
is a massive issue in itself. is not your only objection. You say | :38:45. | :38:50. | |
this is one of the subject she get a lot of correspondence on. I | :38:50. | :38:56. | |
expect most of those letters are anti cull. I also expect to have | :38:56. | :39:02. | |
not many farmers in your constituency? We only have four | :39:02. | :39:06. | |
forums. My constituency is only -- a largely urban. We have a | :39:06. | :39:14. | |
countryside park. Other than that people are generally concerned. I | :39:14. | :39:19. | |
have had a lot of people contact me because they are concerned about | :39:19. | :39:26. | |
the fact that it isn't signed tepidly proven that it is going to | :39:26. | :39:36. | |
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be the best way to control bovine TB. -- scientifically proven. | :39:37. | :39:44. | |
Ministers are agreed that a cull would mean a 16% drop in bovine TB | :39:44. | :39:48. | |
levels. A few are going to do this in a way that you are going to | :39:48. | :39:53. | |
change what is happening, then the 16%, what will happen to the | :39:53. | :40:02. | |
others? About 75%... Would it not make inroads? Fathers feel they | :40:02. | :40:08. | |
have been fobbed off for years by the government saying there will be | :40:08. | :40:13. | |
a vaccine at some point. It always seems to be at a distant point in | :40:13. | :40:19. | |
the future where the problem gets worse and worse. They have got to | :40:19. | :40:23. | |
concentrate on getting the vaccine right. It cannot be never and never. | :40:23. | :40:31. | |
Farmers feel like it has been like that. I hop farmers do not think I | :40:31. | :40:35. | |
am unsympathetic. This is their livelihood. We depend on them to | :40:35. | :40:41. | |
feed us and the fact that they have had to have 25,000 animals | :40:41. | :40:45. | |
destroyed last year at a cost of nearly �90 million to the taxpayer | :40:45. | :40:52. | |
as well, a cull, which is only going to solve 16% of the problem | :40:52. | :40:57. | |
and not emphasise how we can eradicate TB, it is not moving | :40:57. | :41:05. | |
forward. It is kind of a step back. The previous government were doing | :41:05. | :41:09. | |
six Faxing Tests and five of them had been cancelled, which is a | :41:09. | :41:16. | |
concern. -- the vaccine tests. Anything moving forward to develop | :41:16. | :41:24. | |
a vaccine for her cattle -- for cattle and continue to vaccinate | :41:24. | :41:29. | |
the badgers and how we can eradicate it is fine. There is | :41:29. | :41:37. | |
another problem of getting European blog changed so if we have animals | :41:37. | :41:41. | |
vaccinated... Another reason the government say we should be pushing | :41:42. | :41:51. | |
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Colin? There are falling back on Colling. -- on the cull. | :41:56. | :42:01. | |
Investigating the science would be a better stab. | :42:01. | :42:06. | |
On Tuesday at Westminster one of Cornwall's MPs raised concerns | :42:06. | :42:09. | |
about the proposal to give protection to an area of the seabed | :42:09. | :42:18. | |
off Falmouth. Conservationists say it will put -- protect a unique | :42:18. | :42:23. | |
habitat but others say it will prevent dredging and cost the local | :42:23. | :42:28. | |
economy millions. Falmouth is one of Europe's biggest | :42:28. | :42:37. | |
harbours. Its port supports 1,400 jobs. Some say these jobs will be | :42:37. | :42:42. | |
lost if plans for eight Marine Conservation Society goes ahead. | :42:42. | :42:46. | |
The plan to give a special environmental protections to an | :42:46. | :42:50. | |
area of the seabed out there has pleased conservationists but it has | :42:50. | :42:55. | |
caused some anxiety in Falmouth amongst businesses, who say it | :42:55. | :43:00. | |
could get in a way of plans to dredge the harbour which in turn, | :43:00. | :43:04. | |
could cost the town's economy thousands of pounds and hundreds of | :43:04. | :43:12. | |
jobs. One of the key proposals is the dredging of a new approach | :43:12. | :43:15. | |
channel in the docks which the council says would be of economic | :43:15. | :43:19. | |
benefit as larger ships would be able to access the port. The | :43:19. | :43:22. | |
dredging plan is already on hold because of environmental concerns | :43:22. | :43:29. | |
and now, its backers are facing another potential obstacle. We are | :43:29. | :43:33. | |
very concerned about it. We are working hard on the mark -- port | :43:33. | :43:38. | |
masterplan and looking for a future for the port. That involves a | :43:38. | :43:43. | |
dreading -- dredging scheme which is difficult in an area of | :43:43. | :43:47. | |
conservation. We feel if the reference site goes forward, then | :43:47. | :43:51. | |
the dredging aspects of this proposal become even more difficult, | :43:51. | :43:58. | |
if not impossible. This bank is home to a rare species of sea weed | :43:58. | :44:03. | |
which forms a habitat similar to a coral reef. It is protected by | :44:03. | :44:07. | |
European law but last month, the government was presented with a | :44:07. | :44:12. | |
proposal to give his side a highest possible level of protection. | :44:12. | :44:17. | |
idea of reference areas is to provide protection for the very | :44:17. | :44:24. | |
best examples of different habitats. That provides a comparison that we | :44:24. | :44:28. | |
can make with other areas that support Merle. There are bits of it | :44:28. | :44:36. | |
in other areas around the coast. By protecting this and keeping it in | :44:36. | :44:39. | |
the high-quality state that it is, we can have a comparison to make | :44:39. | :44:43. | |
with these other areas so we can understand how they are impacted | :44:43. | :44:49. | |
generally by other activities. Cornwall Council is predicting a | :44:49. | :44:53. | |
bleak council -- future for Falmouth docks if the reference | :44:53. | :44:57. | |
site is given approval. It would prevent us for carrying out | :44:57. | :45:06. | |
bridging which is important for a future prosperity in the docks. | :45:06. | :45:12. | |
They would go into decline. I am aware that some of the business is | :45:12. | :45:16. | |
currently based in the docks might use that as an opportunity to | :45:16. | :45:20. | |
locate elsewhere, which means we would not just lose jobs slowly | :45:20. | :45:24. | |
over a period of time but we could lose dozens if not hundreds of jobs | :45:24. | :45:32. | |
in short order. Falmouth's MP is also concerned. She raised the | :45:32. | :45:37. | |
issue at Westminster this week. really think we have got plenty of | :45:37. | :45:41. | |
Environment a protection at the moment. I grew up in the area and I | :45:41. | :45:44. | |
am pleased to see the quality of the water has improved and the | :45:44. | :45:48. | |
protection for the environment is there. I do not think we need any | :45:48. | :45:55. | |
more. She says she was assured by the response from the minister who | :45:55. | :45:58. | |
says everyone in their community will be properly consulted. | :45:58. | :46:03. | |
The Channel Island of Jersey went to the polls this week for what was | :46:03. | :46:07. | |
almost its first general election. The island does not have political | :46:07. | :46:10. | |
parties and until March the different seats in the house have | :46:10. | :46:17. | |
been pulled at different times but at this time, almost all of the | :46:17. | :46:20. | |
seats were being contested. Jersey is well known for a number | :46:20. | :46:26. | |
of things. Its cars, it potatoes, its tax status and this man, who | :46:26. | :46:34. | |
did wonders for the island's tourism in the 1980s. It is easy | :46:34. | :46:38. | |
for people from the UK to forget that jersey has its own government | :46:38. | :46:42. | |
and that it is like a country in its own right. This week the | :46:42. | :46:46. | |
islanders went to the polls for what was almost but not quite the | :46:46. | :46:51. | |
first general election. The States of Jersey now has 51 members. 10 | :46:51. | :46:56. | |
are senators elected by the whole of the island. 29 are deputies who | :46:56. | :47:03. | |
represent local districts. 12 are constables, elected by their | :47:03. | :47:07. | |
parishes, local figureheads. Between them they elect a chief | :47:07. | :47:12. | |
minister and a Cabinet. It was almost a general election because | :47:12. | :47:16. | |
six senators seats were not up for re-election. In 2014 there will be | :47:16. | :47:23. | |
a full general election but it is still being phased in. The big | :47:23. | :47:33. | |
winner was formerly the island's be live. If 80% -- with 80% of | :47:33. | :47:38. | |
islanders selecting him he is a prime candidate for a minister. | :47:38. | :47:43. | |
made it clear that my primary objective was to see reform in the | :47:43. | :47:46. | |
constitution of the States and a change in the way the States | :47:46. | :47:50. | |
operates so that the parliament of the island becomes more efficient | :47:50. | :47:57. | |
and more effective. I have to think what is the best way to achieve | :47:57. | :48:02. | |
that objective. There are a number of options that are open to me. | :48:02. | :48:08. | |
Will he stand and if so, who will he face? This has given him a | :48:08. | :48:14. | |
potential Monday possibly to stand as chief minister. There is going | :48:15. | :48:20. | |
to be speculation about this over the next few weeks until the new | :48:20. | :48:24. | |
states convenes in December and proceeds to elect a new chief | :48:24. | :48:34. | |
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minister and cancel minister that Council of Ministers. -- and | :48:34. | :48:39. | |
Council of Ministers. Some states were pledging to make changes. | :48:39. | :48:43. | |
of the key changes his people fed up with the bickering that has | :48:44. | :48:49. | |
characterised the last assembly. If I were to stand I would bring | :48:49. | :48:53. | |
forward a Council of Ministers that harnessed talents across the | :48:53. | :48:59. | |
political spectrum. With former constables taking the role | :48:59. | :49:05. | |
unopposed it was the first time it was the first time it was contested | :49:05. | :49:15. | |
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in over 100 years. Patrick, 1143. It was fantastic to have the | :49:20. | :49:30. | |
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support of the parishioners. I did not expect that amount. If you want | :49:30. | :49:37. | |
to make you're difference get on the electoral roll! The estate have | :49:37. | :49:45. | |
been rolled the help of a fictitious former on the internet | :49:45. | :49:53. | |
to get more people to vote. Turnout was up. Jersey has got a long way | :49:53. | :49:57. | |
to go. Just a few weeks ago there was a general election on the Isle | :49:57. | :50:07. | |
of Man and the turnout was 61.9%. The turnout in Guernsey in 2008 in | :50:07. | :50:14. | |
their elections was 55%. Jersey has some way to go all this -- although | :50:14. | :50:18. | |
this level of turnout represents improvement. The new members will | :50:19. | :50:23. |