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Absolutely fuming on behalf of my constituents
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Literally, it was Friday night, about 12 into the early hours of Saturday morning
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that we've had 16,500 households with no water affecting many of our businesses
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One of my hotels losing a huge conference and all the bookings that you would expect
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Small businesses that need that January trading. It's back to school and, of course, exam season, mocks, things like that
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And, of course, if you're vulnerable, and we've just heard, if you need your livestock looked after, you've got horses, race horses
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you name it, in a very rural area. It's been absolutely shambolic and catastrophic, Patrick
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Just quickly, Mims, if that's OK. Look, what do we need to be done about this
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I mean, there's South East Water bosses, and I don't want to sound too socialist about this
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but I think this is one area where I am actually quiet and I think they take it home in wheelbarrows cash-wise
1:00
They have a lot of perks, some of these bosses. They're not doing the job. What do we have to do here
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Look, I think we're not naturally, you know, headsmiths, roll types. We want to hold people to account and get them to do their jobs
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bring them up to do it. But if we want to get the taps on and have that resilience in the network
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and ultimately my constituents, bill payers, those people who need to rely on this service
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we're on about the fourth outage since 2020. We cannot continue with this
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And we need to make sure that the bulk sharing agreements is a bit techie
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but between southern water and southeast water actually works and that we build in the resilience
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and deal with the fragility in the system because we can't go on like this as a country
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And our constituents, your viewers, deserve better. My job as their MP to stand up for them
