![]() ![]() SB: You have just said, on national television - correct me if I’m wrong - that gold command has said that there is nothing that needs to be done here that they can do? PH: There’ll be a military team bringing them down so I can now feed that back to the government commander. SB: Who’s unloading them when they get here, how are they coordinating that? There’s nobody here communicating those efforts apart from us and we are not being communicated with. It’s a job that the military and the police are doing together, right now. ![]() PH: I thought they’d be here by now, I spoke to him at 8 o clock, and he told me they were on their way. SB: That’s the first we’ve heard, that’s the first we’ve heard. PH: Let me answer that one now because I spoke to the gold commander not an hour ago and he tells me there’s a combined police and military team collecting sandbags right now. SB: First of all we need sandbags, we need sandbags - just let me finish - we have sandbags being delivered last night that were hijacked. Philip Hammond: What is it that you think needs doing right now? We had eight police officers here last night. To tell you, to make you understand that we need the army here. What will it take for you to understand we are seriously in need? Do I need to take you right down to the end, where we need people? Do I need to do that? I am asking you what do we need to do. We need the army, we said that yesterday, you don’t take us seriously, Gold Command don’t take us seriously. We have had fire and rescue rescue 840 people, we have evacuated 100 houses. going into waters that would be over my head. We have been working for 48 hours evacuating people, risking our own lives. ![]()
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