RE: Waiting for news21 Jun 2021 13:23
Colin has to take at least some of the responsibility for the failure to "exploit" the Covid opportunity we were led to believe our illustrious BoD had identified.
Getting involved with this government has been catastrophic for all the companies involved in the UK-RTC, ABDX down more than 50%, ODX down 50%, BBI a take over target after existing for 50+ years. The idiot Bell led these companies into believing the need for antibody testing at the beginning of the pandemic would be huge and they have been crapped on by the government ever since, even last week a DHSC minister stated that there was no contract issued in October 2020 to Abingdon, and that was for the only Covid tests we have officially sold to date. It was clear that the real demand (£3.2B worth) was antigen, but Bell didn't disclose that at the time did he?
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. So what does Colin do, he jumps back on board with the idiot Jim "Bugger up" Bethell, and his much trumpeted support for the uk diagnostics industry, and look how thats doing for us. The only winners out of the Antigen consortium are the management consultants paid to set it up.
Rather than recruiting more, there should be some serious culling going on at BoD level.