Just worth reminding ourselves, as we look at how the likes of Kate Bingham and Dido Harding are delivering for the nation, what& #39;s actually happening on the ground. /1
We& #39;ve invested vast sums in (at least) two pieces of unproven testing technology. The first is a kind of LAMP test by a company called Optigene. We& #39;ve spent £323m on Optigene technology - how is it performing? /2
The other unproven testing technology we& #39;ve spent vast sums on is by a company called Innova. We& #39;ve entered into two contracts with Innova, one for £496m ( https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:533961-2020:TEXT:EN:HTML&src=0)">https://ted.europa.eu/udl... and the other for £138m ( https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:494882-2020:TEXT:EN:HTML&src=0).">https://ted.europa.eu/udl... These ones are doing much better, right? /4
Not really, to be honest.

I set out some of the concerns I had with untrained operatives using Innova tests on asymptomatic individuals in a way that defied the certified uses of those tests in this thread. /5 https://twitter.com/JolyonMaugham/status/1322619116902121474">https://twitter.com/JolyonMau...
I& #39;ve since been contacted by an insider - only one, mind you - who tells me that (as you would expect given the way the tests are being mis-administered) that they, too, are failing to pick up loads of positive cases. /6
And this is the thing, with cronyism.

It& #39;s not just that it& #39;s hopelessly unfair only giving jobs to pals you went to Eton or Uni with. It& #39;s not just that it shuts the door in the face of brilliant kids who clawed their way up from working class backgrounds. /7
It& #39;s also that - if you don& #39;t get the best people for the job because you& #39;re appointing from a tiny pool of your mates - the whole country suffers. More people die, more lives are ruined, the economy suffers.

So we at @GoodLawProject think it& #39;s a profound social evil. /8
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