Brassed Off Page #3
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- Year:
- 1996
- 103 min
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big chance to swelI the coffers
tomorrow, so...
we're going for all fourteen.
-Are you on, love?
-lf l'm allowed.
Don't be soft, Iass.
You were born here.
It's a profitable pit, this.
There's hundreds of years of coal
down there...
but it doesn't matterto them
bastards. We're making money for'em...
hand over fist, we are.
And stiII they want to shut us down.
-WelI, teII them bollocks to them.
-That's up to you Iot isn't it, Iad?
WeII, thank Christ
it isn't up to you.
Jesus, we shouIdn't have even Iet the
offer be put on't table.
They're just bIoody puppets, that Iot.
They do whateverthe bastards want.
-Phil, Iad.
-We didn't do what they wanted in '84.
No, we dug
us heels in, didn't we?
Aye, and some of us got bloody
Iocked up for it.
Big bloody deaI.
Hey, suspended I were.
It took that lot a year and a half
to get me reinstated.
That's eighteen month on bloody
strike pay.
-With a wife, bloody kids, mortgage.
-lt's ten years ago, paI.
Aye, ten years.
And l were that bloody broke, l'm
That's how big a f***ing deaI
it were.
Hey, where were
you then, eh, pal?
In '84?
I don't remember
seeing you on t'line.
Oh aye, we aII know which way
you'lI be voting.
-Come on then, you bastard.
-Anytime.
Leave it out.
Listen!
That's just what they're bIoody
wanting, you know that, don't you?
AII right, this is what you've got:
ballot next week, right?
You've got two options.
One:
you can vote to take pit toReview Procedure.
Obviously that's one we want, because
we reckon you've got a decent chance.
Or, two...
-You can vote to take pay-off.
-Get stuffed.
Listen, Iisten. They told us
Iast night...
that redundancy offer's gone up
three thousand...
to twenty three...
with a five grand sweetener.
This is only a temporary offer.
lf you say no, they're pulling any
future offer down to a fIat fifteen.
Bastards!
-Born bastards, stay bastards.
-That's right.
WeII it's no good shouting now Iads,
do it next week in the ballot.
Say no to bloody bIackmaiI...
-and yes to keeping this pit aIive.
-That's what we want.
be defeated.
Poor biddies. Don't they know they're
pissing into t'wind like rest of us?
-Can they do that, women?
-What?
-Piss in the wind.
-No, Ernie, that's just the point.
But even on a nice day, y'know, when
there's no wind about, they can't ...
-y'know, get any direction on it.
-Well aIl right, whatever it is...
that Iasses do that's pointIess.
-Bloody hell, so much to choose from.
Fart in a force ten?
My God Phil, you don't half know
some funny women.
Steady, Iads,
my missus does that.
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