The Stars Look Down Page #6

- Was he jealous?

- He was.

It's no good to treat a man like that.

There were tears in his eyes.

I know what I'm doing.

It's time I taught him a lesson.

I tried to teach someone a lesson

and it ended with me marrying your father.

I could marry Joe Gowlan tomorrow

just by raising my little finger.

But I'm not going to raise it. Not just yet.

(LAUGHTER)

(DAVEY) The case for private

ownership varies according to what it is.

(MAN) The case for public ownership

varies according to who puts it.

(DAVEY) I'll put it this way.

If private ownership of coal mines,

why not lighthouses?

Because there's no profit in a lighthouse.

Please, it's taken...

I don't believe that everything

under the sun should be publicly owned,

but coal mining is not something

under the sun.

- Hear hear!

- That's not my point, Mr Nugent.

There's a fundamental difference

between coal mining and most industries.

It is that coal, like iron

and other natural resources,

was not invented, manufactured

or even cultivated by man,

it is put there by nature for man to take.

These natural resources, ladies

and gentlemen - national resources -

are not the basis of a few industries,

incidental to our nation's structure.

They are the basis of all our industry.

The life blood of every industry.

They are the very foundation

upon which our nation is built.

The material with which our nation is built,

without which our nation could not flourish.

I resent that this great buried treasure,

this source of all our nation's wealth,

this vital national heritage,

should be dispensed to this man or that,

good man or bad,

to exploit this mine or that,

willy nilly, as and when he chooses.

To use it as a pawn in price manipulations,

cost evasions, middleman transactions

and as a pabulum of his self-aggrandisement.

I resent it as I would resent

a foreign flag on the cliffs of Dover.

(APPLAUSE)

- Favourite won the 2.30, Joe.

- Business is as good as yours now.

- You got that job, then?

- You bet I did.

You know where to find me,

but don't tell Jenny.

I want to get away before she comes home.

So long. Hope you make your fortune.

So long, Joe.

- Jenny!

- Davey. I thought you were ever so nice.

- Did you...?

- Where's Joe? He said he'd be here.

He said he'd be at Jesmond Dene

and at the picnic.

- Maybe he thinks we like being alone.

- That's it.

- Well done, Fenwick.

- Thanks.

Do you have any ambition for politics?

The subjects I'm studying most

are political science and economy,

and I read your speeches.

- He's talking shop.

- Sorry. Miss Sunley, Mr Nugent.

Come and see me.

I might be able to push you on.

- Would you?

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