of countermeasures. why did you not say those things? say those things? that is not howl would characterise say those things? that is not howl would characterise the say those things? that is not howl would characterise the situation. i would characterise the situation. the first thing is that i am not confident that by this cabinet meeting, i will have known that sage had concluded that containment was lost. and in fact, i don t think that i was told that for a number of days after. as i said, i m not exactly sure when i was told that. but this meeting was the morning after the minutes of sage coming to that conclusion. secondly, at this point in the department and nphet and the health service, we were working extremely hard to prepare for the pandemic. i had commissioned the action plan and work was under way on that and phe. we were attempting and pushing phe to build the testing system and all of the other things we were directly responsible for. as i say, we were
one bus was set on fire. other vehicles were also burned and public transport services were damaged. riot police were deployed. speaking at a news conference this morning, police chief drew harris highlighted the unexpected nature of the riots, which he blamed on a complete lunatic faction driven by far right ideology. what we saw last night was an extraordinary outbreak of violence and we extraordinary outbreak of violence and we have to respond accordingly in terms and we have to respond accordingly in terms of and we have to respond accordingly in terms of our response to the policing in terms of our response to the policing of in terms of our response to the policing of disorder. but these are scenes policing of disorder. but these are scenes we policing of disorder. but these are scenes we have not seen in decades. this is scenes we have not seen in decades. this is not scenes we have not seen in decades. this is not a scenes we have not seen in decade
the 3rd of next few weeks. they have only told the 3rd ofjanuary. and that s clearly the 3rd ofjanuary. and that s clearly what they want to do is maximum clearly what they want to do is maximum damage. i think it s deeply unfortunate because there are a lot of other unfortunate because there are a lot of other things that demand our attention of other things that demand our attention right now. i d much rather be talking attention right now. i d much rather be talking about ukraine, the recent fusion be talking about ukraine, the recent fusion announcement out of the national fusion announcement out of the national lab, but i think everyone will be national lab, but i think everyone will be talking about these tax returns will be talking about these tax returns whenever they re leaked or released returns whenever they re leaked or released to. | returns whenever they re leaked or released to- released to. i watch from afar like ou, released to. i watch from afar like
help us manually transcribe it from paper into computer. the digitalisation paper into computer. the digitalisation had - paper into computer. the digitalisation had been done and then do sort lockdown coming. trite then do sort lockdown coming. we sort then do sort lockdown coming. - sort lockdown coming and there was potential here that people would have spare time on their hands and wanted a distraction and they could help us transcribe this data into the computer. help us transcribe this data into the computer. you are on a really iuick, the computer. you are on a really quick, lockdown, the computer. you are on a really quick, lockdown, 23rd the computer. you are on a really quick, lockdown, 23rd of- the computer. you are on a really quick, lockdown, 23rd of march, i quick, lockdown, 23rd of march, 2020, and on the 26th of march you did it shout out asking for help. what was the response like? was it as big as you expected? it what was the response like? was it as big as yo