The water system is a business. The labs are businesses. A competent business shuttering when the market shrinks to avoid making a loss is an effect of Brexit.
The fact our water infrastructure is run as a business is an effect of Thatcher selling it.
We need to vote for a government to reverse Brexit eventually. But we’re also still waiting 35 years to reverse the privatisation of the 80s.
The problem with voting for destructive Conservative governments is it costs a lot of money to replace the things they’ve given away or destroyed.