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One: Compassionate Leave
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CRAVEN
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Indefinitely.
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One: Compassionate Leave
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JONES
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Did you agree?
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One: Compassionate Leave
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CRAVEN
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No. We won't go to Blackpool, that's all I agreed.
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JONES
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What are you doing now?
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One: Compassionate Leave
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CRAVEN
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Picking up Emma. Why?
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One: Compassionate Leave
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JONES
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There was a geezer hanging around you in the meet.
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One: Compassionate Leave
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CRAVEN
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Ross said it was a reporter.
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JONES
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Maybe. I think I'll go out and take a look.
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CRAVEN
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Don't catch pneumonia. It's pissing down outside.
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JONES
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Cheers, Derek.
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One: Compassionate Leave
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KENNETH KENDALL
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[V.O] ... the main stories again. The Government has launched a new election manifesto designed to attract the growing Green vote in this country. Called ''The Greening of England'' it calls for a new radical approach to the environment. An influx...
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One: Compassionate Leave
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MICHAEL MEACHER
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Yes, you can contribute, but not to the kind of nuclear state that they want. And what do they face you with? With closure. They say it's in the name of economy.
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One: Compassionate Leave
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MICHAEL MEACHER
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But I say look behind it. Look at the mentality behind it which is so suspect.
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One: Compassionate Leave
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MICHAEL MEACHER
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It is a siege mentality.
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MICHAEL MEACHER
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[V.O.] We see ministers busily winding up the drawbridge on the open society...
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One: Compassionate Leave
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MICHAEL MEACHER
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[V.O.] ..and threatening a rerun, dare I say it, of the Middle Ages!
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One: Compassionate Leave
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STUDENTS
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[V.O.] Yeah!
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MICHAEL MEACHER
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[V.O.] But I say this, too, that I believe that there are new forces in our society. New forces, new loyalties, new ideas not yet articulated which may yet come to our rescue.
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One: Compassionate Leave
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MICHAEL MEACHER
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Now some of them will come from the Labour Party.
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MICHAEL MEACHER
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And some of them will come from other associations perhaps not yet formed, I accept that as well. But I say this - that in whatever shape these new forces manifest themselves, they will come from you, the despised students of humanities.
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