Mike Martin MP 🔸
@ThreshedThought • 137,387 subscribers
Tunbridge Wells MP | Chair APPG Rearmament | Defence Select Ctte | Joint Nat Sec Strategy Ctte | Co-host Chaos Theory pod | Books: https://t.co/0KsGBXhxky
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Militaries should never pick a fight with mountain folk. Hassan Damluji and I discuss why great powers have struggled to succeed in mountain warfare over centuries in our new podcast Chaos Theory. Listen from wherever you get your podcasts from or watch the first episode here:
Mike Martin MP 🔸32,396 次观看 • 6 天前
I am calling on David Hinton, the CEO of South East Water, to resign. 24,000 properties have endured three days of South East Water’s chaotic emergency response and woeful communication. It’s an utter disgrace and a total failure of leadership by David Hinton. Every announcement by the company over the last few days telling customers when water supplies would be restored has been wrong. We’ve had endless announcements each giving a different time for water supplies returning. Initially residents in Tunbridge Wells were told to collect bottled water from another town. Then bottled water stations were only set up in central Tunbridge Wells on my instigation. This incident has caused chaos, anger and anxiety for people. Primary and secondary schools are closed. GP surgeries and civil buildings are closed. Businesses have been unable to trade on one of the busiest trading days of the year. Restaurants and hotels have lost thousands of pounds. Care homes and vulnerable people have been left without water for hours, with many contacting me personally to get bottled water delivered to them because South East Water’s phone lines were too busy. Roads have been gridlocked for hours as people queued to access water distribution sites. When I was elected last year, David Hinton gave personal and public assurances that the lessons of previous water outages in Tunbridge Wells had been learnt. In 2022, water was cut off for 6 days over Christmas; we’ve been here before and he vowed to fix things so it couldn’t happen again. We now know that is not true. From the failure to provide sufficient resilience in the local network, to the terrible communications with the community, to putting in place any emergency response plan – the CEO hasn’t kept his promises to the people of Tunbridge Wells. David Hinton must resign, and if he had any integrity he would do so immediately.
Mike Martin MP 🔸164,156 次观看 • 10 个月前
Liberal Democrats The one thing they are saying which is correct is that the only way to deal with Iran’s nuclear programme is through negotiation - this is what the UK, the US, and other international partners were trying to do when Israel launched its illegal attack.
Mike Martin MP 🔸54,307 次观看 • 1 年前
💧Latest South East Water update 💧 1) The compensation to business offered by South East Water is insulting and in no way matches businesses’ losses. 2) By his own admission, CEO Dave Hinton spent the crisis in the water lab rather than leading the organisation through the crisis. This failure of leadership made the losses to business so much worse. 3) He must resign for a failure to learn the lessons of the similar 2022 water outage in Tunbridge Wells.
Mike Martin MP 🔸23,952 次观看 • 9 个月前
