Mike Martin MP 🔸
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Tunbridge Wells MP - Chair APPG Rearmament - Defence Select Ctte - Joint Nat Sec Strategy Ctte - Sn V/Fellow @warstudies - Books: https://t.co/0KsGBXhxky
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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.
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Liberal Democrats And whilst no one would disagree that the US military has accomplished a tactical feat with its operation, we now hear from VP Vance that they didn’t even get the Uranium, they don’t know where it is, and they are not sure how much they have damaged the Iranian nuclear programme.
Mike Martin MP 🔸82,581 görüntüleme • 11 ay önce
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.
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Liberal Democrats You can find the whole segment on Good Morning Britain here. With thanks to Ed Balls for playing a walk-on part from a previous UK government that launched a disastrous, illegal war based on dodgy intelligence. Let’s hope the current UK government is learning from that debacle.
Mike Martin MP 🔸44,008 görüntüleme • 11 ay önce
💧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.
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My Maiden Speech: An Ode to Tunbridge Wells + some words on British strategy
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EU membership made us safer - conversely Brexit has made us less safe. The government’s position is absurd.
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I am deeply humbled and honoured to have been sworn in as the Member of Parliament for Tunbridge Wells.
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Here is my speech moving the amendment to criminalise the harassment of women in public.
Mike Martin MP 🔸21,208 görüntüleme • 11 ay önce
It seems increasingly likely that the SAS committed war crimes in Afghanistan. If proven in the Afghanistan Special Forces Inquiry, the government must bring the UK special forces under parliamentary oversight. BBC News (UK) at Ten with some comments from me.
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South East Water have paid out more in interest payments and dividends than investment in the network - and now they expect customers to pick up the tab. The Lib Dems are calling on the government to properly regulate our water companies so that customers are protected.
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