Here's unemployment going up and up and up, here's Mrs Thatcher increasing the rents, increasing the prescription charges, cutting the money to local councils, cutting student grants, doing horrendous things to the National Health Service...
And here's the Labour party, for six months, obsessed with who is going to be deputy leader.
People were looking at us and saying 'this lot aren't fit to run the country.'
Joe Ashton, Labour MP, on the deputy leadership battle between Denis Healey and Tony Benn in 1981, speaking in 1995 on BBC 2 documentary Labour in the Wilderness
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