:20:01
Thank you, James. Even then, it takes
me a week to make up my sermons.
:20:05
But Robbie here makes out
a very good case.
:20:08
And he says we can't fight it.
:20:10
Can't fight? You mean
you won't fight, some of ye!
:20:14
Look out there.
:20:16
Trawlers sweeping the sea
wi' their nets,
:20:20
loading their boats wi' fish
that belong to us island men,
:20:23
ruining the new spawn
wi' their damned otter boards.
:20:28
Three-mile limit.
What does it mean to them?
:20:33
A dint in the head with a lump of
coal is all you get if you warn them.
:20:36
What's the good of it?
:20:37
Restrictions, that's what we want,
that's what we'll pray for.
:20:42
The damn fools are ruining
their own game, as well as ours.
:20:45
They've swept the shore
as bare as this hand,
:20:48
you have to steam further out,
that means more coal,
:20:50
then where's the profit?
:20:52
Fight. Man, I've fought them
and the like all my life.
:20:57
I've kept a roof over my croft,
brought my children up decently.
:21:01
And then to have you, Robbie,
tell me it's each man for himself,
:21:05
and act as though you spoke
for half the island,
:21:08
when you're not two days back from
working for the boats that ruined us!
:21:11
Three months' work
and £63 to show for it!
:21:14
Shillings is what I'd be showing
if I'd stayed on Hirta.
:21:16
- Och, you're no son o' mine!
- Don't take it so hard, Peter, man.
:21:20
The boy's just said
what had to be said.
:21:23
Men we must have,
and where are we going to get them?
:21:26
Oh, this tale o' Robbie's has been
in my mind for a long while.
:21:30
Now, if we was to petition
the Government,
:21:33
there's little doubt we'd get free
transportation and a grant o' land.
:21:37
I would remind you, James Gray,
that that is for the laird to decide.
:21:40
And it's within my province...
:21:42
We'll respect everybody.
This seems a simple enough matter.
:21:46
We've agreed to race to the top,
and race we will.
:21:49
Let the man who gets there first
have the way of it.
:21:52
If parliament sat for a thousand
years, they wouldn't decide better.
:21:55
Well, it may be so, Andrew,
but I don't approve.
:21:59
No, it's too risky.