Denis Healey
British Labour politician and former Defence Secretary and Chancellor of the Exechequer.
[Margaret Thatcher is] wrapping herself in a Union Jack and exploiting the services of our soldiers, sailors and airmen and hoping to get away with it. The Prime Minister who glories in slaughter...is at this very moment lending the military dictatorship in Buenos Aires millions of pounds to buy weapons, including weapons made in Britain, to kill British servicemen with, and that is an act of stupefying hypocrisy.
He must be out of his tiny Chinese mind.
I would fight to change the policy before the General Election. If I failed then I wouldn't accept office in a Labour Government.
The alternative to getting help from the IMF would be economic policies so savage I think they would produce riots in the streets, an immediate fall in living standards and unemployment of three million.
He has never been a Minister, lacks experience, and people know it. In troubled times, the electorate looks for a strong leader and Mrs Thatcher is seen as one.
It is totally unproven that the increase in the money supply has a short term or medium term connection with inflation and prices.
By the end of next year, we really shall be on our way to that so-called economic miracle we need.