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An SAS veteran has declared his "fight is with the Government" as he called for "more support" for Britain's service personnel.Speaking to GB News, Matthew Hellyer told hosts Camilla Tominey and Michael Portillo claimed that money given to military-based charities is "not being spent correctly".FULL STORY HERE.
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Well, I can tell you, because it's my area of concern as well
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The governments, and as you know, Michael, the governments give a huge amount of money to charities
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but that money isn't being spent correctly, in my opinion. There's hundreds of millions of pounds that the government give
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It doesn't matter which government it is, they are subjected to give this money
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It's controlled by a group of military charities. It needs to be disseminated down to the individuals in need
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and not given to events or stuff like that. We can look at events once we have cared for all of our veterans
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We've taken every veteran off the street. We've made sure every veteran gets the care he deserves
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And then we can look at events. The money needs to be spent properly
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So there is a huge amount. If people wanted to support your charity, how were they set about doing that
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They can go online, look at our charity, decide whether they want to support my charity
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which is not only a military and blue light, it helps communities
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And it's www.pilgrinbandits.org. You can see exactly what we get up to
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We're a small charity that punches well above our weight and we are committed to all of our veterans' communities and blue light services
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Matt, it's probably a rather big question to answer briefly, but what impact did being in the SAS have on your life
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For me, it's a huge impact. It's excitement. You know, I loved every minute of it
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but, you know, it comes with sacrifice. And I had, you know, I've sacrificed a family over this
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My first, you know, I had three children. Unfortunately one of my boys died two years ago I sorry I didn afford him the time that I think he deserved because I was selfish in supporting and honouring this country and I thought that
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was the right thing to do. But really looking back I would like to have spent
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a bit more time with my family. All of our families break down. The divorce rate is huge
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and the children suffer a little bit. But that's because we're dedicated
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to this country. So I hope that people can see the dedication
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and commitment all of our armed forces give to this country and they need to be respected. And despite what you've just said
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I think your first reaction when I asked you the question was to say how much you'd enjoyed it
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how much you loved it. And that may be a mystery to some viewers. Constantly, constantly in danger
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day after day, doing very dangerous things, day after day, losing colleagues, and yet you love it
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Explain that. We love it because you are in, it's almost like being part of the England rugby squad
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where we have people that you can rely on 100%. We are running around, you know, fit
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We're great individuals. And the work we get into is extremely complex
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It's not just physical. It's absolutely mental as well. So we get given the government's biggest problems to solve
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And unfortunately, in this day and age, we're getting persecuted and prosecuted for it
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So now, you know, my fight is not with the enemy. My fight is with the government at the moment, and we are trying to create a group through me and through some great individuals that are supported, like Chris Parry, who comes on this programme
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And we're creating a group that will bring all groups together so we can educate individuals on why we do the things, the rules of engagement, the chain of command
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And we want the support off of the government and we want the support off of the public
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Matthew, hello
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