Denis Healey Quotes
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I would fight to change the policy before the General Election. If I failed then I wouldn't accept office in a Labour Government.
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We are all agreed on a massive extension of public ownership...We are all agreed on establishing comprehensive planning control over the 100 or so largest companies in Britain. We are all agreed on the need for a national enterprise board to organise and extend public ownership in the profitable manufacturing industries.
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He must be out of his tiny Chinese mind.
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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.
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Speech in Paris (12 November 1982).
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No Government can produce an economic miracle. An economic miracle depends on people on the shop floor, in the board room, in the sales office, working a bit harder and more efficiently than they have worked in the past.
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The Tribune (28 March 1986).
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Explaining Labour's defeat in the 1983 election in an interview in Marxism Today (April 1986)
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Squeeze property speculators until the pips squeak
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Faced with the difficulties of unilateral reflation some socialists are tempted to seek salvation through trade restrictions or competitive devaluation. But such beggar-my-neighbour policies, if pursued on the scale required...are more likely to lead to a trade and currency war than to insulate their sponsors from the recession in the outside world.