Manufacturing Trade

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 16 Mai 1991.

Danfonwch hysbysiad imi am ddadleuon fel hyn

Photo of Dennis Skinner Dennis Skinner Member, Labour Party National Executive Committee 12:00, 16 Mai 1991

Is not the truth of the matter that Britain enjoyed a manufacturing trade surplus every year since the industrial revolution, until this mob came into government, and finished up with a deficit in 1982? We had a trade surplus when we had the spinning-jenny and when we invented the steam engine, but now, under this gang of spivs, we have a plastic economy —and the wheels have dropped off.