It's all about sloping shoulders of the Civil Service or Private Enterprise really and I have experienced both, PE wins every time as you are enabled to think and make decisions on your own two feet.
Complying with the greasy pole of the CS was not for me and they were very tolerant of me during FMD as I actually got things done and changed relative to their standard malaise of constant agreement for fear of retribution and in general they were weak people (lifers we called them) exceptions being some of the vets that were not only good at what they did but also stood up and got counted when change was called for.
I made some very good friends during FMD, mostly Farmers and vets, it was a sad unique situation that is being rerun now with Bluetongue and all the farmers have my utmost sympathy.
Meeting up with a fair few last Saturday at the Kingsbridge Show sans livestock bought back sad memories as we recalled those bad days and they told me of their mixed stories of blue tounge.
The problem being the Government being behind in production of the vaccine, so animals and farmers suffering unnecessarily once more due to their ineptitude.
