Falklands veterans have voiced 'horror' at the prospect of Jeremy Corbyn becoming PM after he said reclaiming the islands from Argentina by force was wrong.

Major-General Julian Thompson, who led British forces to victory in 1982, raised fears that the Labour leader could do 'some deal' with Buenos Aires over the territory.

Simon Weston, the Welsh Guardsman who suffered terrible burns when his ship was bombed by Argentine jets, branded Mr Corbyn's stance 'crassly stupid'.

In a TV election programme earlier this week, the veteran left-winger accused Margaret Thatcher of making a 'great deal' of Argentina's invasion.

In a TV election programme earlier this week, Jeremy Corbyn (pictured today) accused Margaret Thatcher of making a 'great deal' of Argentina's 1982 invasion

Pressed on his previous description of the war as a 'Tory plot' and 'flag-waving nonsense', Mr Corbyn made clear he believed it should have been resolved through the UN - even though that was regarded as diplomatically impossible.

'What I wanted was a stopping of that war.'

Asked whether he thought the UK should not have protected the Falklands, the Labour leader said: 'I don't think they should have gone in there but I also think there should have been an opportunity to stop that war happening.'

Pressed again on whether it was a 'Tory plot', Mr Corbyn said: 'No. I think it was important that there should be a negotiated solution through the United Nations….

'Margaret Thatcher made a great deal of the whole issue… I felt she was exploiting the situation.'

The Labour leader has previously called for negotiations over a possible power-sharing deal with Argentina. In a speech recently he said he had not supported any British combat deployment since the Second World War.

Major-General Julian Thompson, who led British forces to victory in 1982, raised fears that the Labour leader could do 'some deal' with Buenos Aires over the territory

Simon Weston, the Welsh Guardsman who suffered terrible burns when his ship was bombed by Argentine jets, branded Mr Corbyn's stance 'crassly stupid'

Major-General Thompson told the Times today: 'Here is a chap who sets himself up as a socialist, and presumably therefore antifascist, who was prepared to see British people consigned to spending their lives under the rule of a fascist junta.'

Asked for his reaction to the idea of Mr Corbyn winning the keys to Downing Street, he said: 'Horror, horror, I can't express it more strongly. I am worried at the thought of that guy being in charge. It is very worrying because he could do some deal with Argentina.'

Mr Weston said that Mr Corbyn made him 'queasy'. 'It makes me balk. I feel rather queasy,' Mr Weston told the newspaper. 'He is historically, geographically and every other aspect of wrong in every point he makes.'

Some 225 British servicemen and 649 Agentines lost their lives in the conflict, which lasted 74 days. Pictured is HMS Sir Galahad ablaze after an Argentine air raid

Mr Corbyn said that Mrs Thatcher (pictured talking about the conflict in 1983) had 'exploited the situation'

Ian Hansen, chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Falkland Islands, said that islanders were concerned about a possible Labour victory in the general election because of the party leader's 'misguided' views on the territory.

'For us in the Falklands, as it's the 35th anniversary of our liberation, those sort of remarks are totally unsavoury and insensitive,' Mr Hansen said. 'I personally know what it was like to be locked up at gunpoint for 30 days so to say it wasn't a just war, how anybody could say that is beyond me.'

Some 225 British servicemen and 649 Agentines lost their lives in the conflict, which lasted 74 days.