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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

stiII frigging paying for it.

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 to

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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...

from a twenty grand maximum

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.

The miners united will never

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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