INNOVATION AND RESPONSIBILITY

Early day motion 985, tabled 31 March 2003 by Austin Mitchell (Labour). Signed by 22 members.

That this House calls on the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to think again about any ill advised proposals to consult the overpaid exploiter of underpaid labour, James Dyson, about innovation or any other aspect of industrial development; points out that any offered advisory appointed or consultancy role for this opinionated self publicist is an insult to the 800 British workers who built up his business and were made redundant as a reward, and a signal to budding entrepreneurs to go east and are a DTI endorsement of such greedy unpatriotic and unprincipled tactics; and therefore suggests that the best role for Mr Dyson would be as an advisor to the Malaysian Government on enhancing the pay and job protection of Malaysian workers, so as to prevent them being exploited to boost the profits of foreign capitalists fleeing their obligations to the nations which nurtured their businesses in the first place.

Signatures by party: Labour 18, Liberal Democrat 4.