Dai Quotes in Pride (2014)

[Giving a Speech in a Gay Bar]

Dai: I've had a lot of new experiences during this strike. Speaking in public, standing on a picket line, And now I'm in a gay bar.

Jonathan: Well, if you don't like it, you can go home.

Dai: As a matter of fact, I do like it.

[Crowd Ooh's]

Dai: Beer's a bit expensive, mind.

[Crowd Laughs]

Dai: But, really, there's only one difference between this and a bar in South Wales. The women. They're a lot more feminine in here.

[the Crowd Laughs and Cheers]

Dai: What I'd really like to say to you tonight is thank you. If you're one of the people that's put money in these buckets, if you've supported LGSM, then thank you, because what you've given us is more than money. It's friendship. When you're in a battle against an enemy so much bigger, so much stronger than you, well, to find out you had a friend you never knew existed, well, that's the best feeling in the world. So, thank you.

[the Crowd Applauds and Cheers Dai and LGSM]

Dai: Where are you from?

Gethin: Rhyl, originally.

Dai: [Hefina, Dai and Cliff turn serious] No, no way.

Hefina: [to Johnathan] Listen, we don't mind the gays, and the lesbians, that's fine. But don't you dare be bringing people from North Wales down here!

[an awkward silence follows and they all laugh]

[Explaining Why Lee and Carl Have Been Illegally Arrested]

Jonathan: A police officer has the right to stop you if - that's the important word here - *if* he has reasonable grounds to believe a crime is gonna be committed.

Dai: Are you absolutely sure about this?

Jonathan: Police harassment, dear. I could set it to music.

Sian: And if he does?

Jonathan: Then he must formally charge you within 24 hours of that arrest. But reasonable grounds means concrete evidence that can stand up in court. It doesn't mean he doesn't like the look of you. That's the same whether you're standing on a picket line or trolling down Clapham High Street in full drag.

[Stanley is sitting on his fork-lift truck]

Knowles: Come on, Squire. What's the trouble?

Stanley Windrush: Damn thing won't go.

Knowles: Oh you've done it now. You forgot to plug in, didn't you?

Dai: [gleefully] I saw that last night. And when Charlie saw it, he said "There's a bloke who's going to have a flat battery in the morning."

Stanley Windrush: Well if he saw the plug was out, why the devil didn't he put it in?

Knowles: Demarcartion, Stan. Not his job. He mustn't go doing work that belongs to other people, must he?

Stanley Windrush: I thought we workers were all solid together.

Knowles: Squire, you need educating. He's in a different union. He's in the Amalgamated, we're in the General.

Stanley Windrush: Well what's the point in having *two* unions?

Knowles: Blimey. When was you born? How would we go on for wage claims? The Amalgamated gets rise, so the General puts in for one. If the General gets it, then the Amalgamated starts all over again. So it goes on, you see - like leapfrog. Otherwise we wouldn't none of us get a rise, would we?