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  • Jonathan uses his fabulous dancing skills and the song "Shame, Shame, Shame" to prove a point to the hostile miners.
  • Sian finds out from Mike and Jonathan (due to their own past experience with police harassment) that the police are illegally arresting and detaining the miners. She marches down to the police station and berates them into compliance, getting the men released.
  • Hefina giving Maureen what-for when she claims she may get AIDS from LGSM: "So help me god, Maureen Barry, if you get AIDS from a couple of sleeping bags in your extension, I'll nurse you myself."
    • Hefina also tries to punch Maureen in the face when she finds out Maureen had the hearing moved-up. Only Sian and Gail holding her back keeps her from doing it.
  • Martin (Sian's husband and one of the striking miners) tackling Maureen's equally homophobic sons and throwing them out of the welfare when they try to confront LGSM, and Dai chiding them for their bigotry. It's doubly awesome when you consider that earlier on in the film, Martin had been opposed to LGSM visiting out of concern for their safety.
  • Sian giving Joe's homophobic mother a piece of her mind about how she should be proud of her son.
    Sian: I hope you appreciate him. There's a whole village in Wales who thinks he's a hero.
  • Joe giving a short but succinct "The Reason You Suck" Speech to his homophobic parents, his stuck up sister and her Jerkass husband when he simultaneously comes out as gay and moves out.
    Joe: Mum, I hope one day we can be friends again.
    Tina: Mum, he's done this on purpose!
    Jason: Oi, haven't you got something to say to your sister?!
    Joe: I've got something to say to you, Jason; you're a dick! And Tina, that tight perm doesn't suit you! It never has! (Joe leaves home)
  • What appears to be the entirety of the Welsh chapters of the National Union of Mineworkers rolling up in busloads, even those who has previously been open homophobes. These are people who understand solidarity.
    • The slowly-building, poignant triumph of watching union lodge banner after union lodge banner go up.

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