:30:04
Because there's no profit in a lighthouse.
:30:06
Please, it's taken...
:30:09
I don't believe that everything
under the sun should be publicly owned,
:30:15
but coal mining is not something
under the sun.
:30:20
- Hear hear!
- That's not my point, Mr Nugent.
:30:23
There's a fundamental difference
between coal mining and most industries.
:30:28
It is that coal, like iron
and other natural resources,
:30:32
was not invented, manufactured
or even cultivated by man,
:30:37
it is put there by nature for man to take.
:30:41
These natural resources, ladies
and gentlemen - national resources -
:30:46
are not the basis of a few industries,
incidental to our nation's structure.
:30:51
They are the basis of all our industry.
The life blood of every industry.
:30:55
They are the very foundation
upon which our nation is built.
:31:00
The material with which our nation is built,
without which our nation could not flourish.
:31:07
I resent that this great buried treasure,
this source of all our nation's wealth,
:31:12
this vital national heritage,
:31:15
should be dispensed to this man or that,
good man or bad,
:31:19
to exploit this mine or that,
willy nilly, as and when he chooses.
:31:23
To use it as a pawn in price manipulations,
cost evasions, middleman transactions
:31:30
and as a pabulum of his self-aggrandisement.
:31:33
I resent it as I would resent
a foreign flag on the cliffs of Dover.
:31:37
(APPLAUSE)
:31:53
- Favourite won the 2.30, Joe.
- Business is as good as yours now.
:31:57
- You got that job, then?
- You bet I did.