By Robin Ramsay
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Thus there would be no balance of payments surplus and no rising pound. ’7 So as British manufacturing shrank under Thatcher in the first Tory recession of 1979-82, the economics experts employed by the City were phlegmatic. Not to worry, they said, it is merely the mechanism through which the balance of trade between the UK and the rest of the world would correct itself. Importing less oil, we would need less manufacturing output. However, despite the abolition of exchange controls and a rush of capital out of the UK, the value of Sterling continued to rise between 1979 and 1981, destroying a quarter of the British manufacturing industry.
Freedom’ for the financial sector also made a nonsense of the Thatcher Government’s stated desire to control the money supply. ’ With no exchange controls there was no control over money flowing in 42 and out of the UK. ’ Not only could they not control the money supply, they couldn’t even measure it. e. no regulation. As the Thatcher recession deepened, British oil production and revenues to the Exchequer from it grew. But having become ‘oil rich,’ much of Britain, mired in recession, was getting poorer.
An account of some of this, from the diary of one of the participants, Labour MP Reg Prentice, is in Stephen Haseler, The Battle For Britain (London: Leo Cooper, 1994), pages 59/60. 18. Brian Crozier’s memoir, Free Agent (London: HarperCollins, 1993) describes much of this. 19. Bradley (see note 14), page 73. 20. The Sunday Telegraph, 14 January 1996. This was actually revealed in Phillip Whitehead’s study of the 1970s, The Writing On The Wall (London: Michael Joseph, 1985), page 359, but no one, including this writer, noticed its significance at the time.
