Talk:Sermon on the Mound

Comments
I read the whole speech and nowhere does Thatcher mention the Good Samaritan, so I removed it from the article (although I know she did comment on that parable, but not in this speech). - Johnbull 03:21, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Quite right. I don't know why that quote has become associated with this speech, but in fact she made it away  back in 1968 in Blackpool : "The point is that even the Good Samaritan had to have the money to help, otherwise he too would have had to pass on the other side."  But she repeated it on TV in 1980 : "No-one would remember the good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well." In 1988 it was quoted back at her in Parliament (PM question time) by Win Griffiths : "The Prime Minister thought that the most significant thing about the parable of the Good Samaritan... [Interruption] ...was that he had money in his pocket to help those in need. Will she now, in the spirit of the Good Samaritan, advocate that all those who have received money beyond their wildest dreams from the Chancellor in the Budget should give it back to help those people, or does she prefer the parable of Lazarus and the rich man?"  --Doric Loon 13:00, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Picture
Does anyone know if it would be possible to get a photo of the actual event? The photo in this newspaper article would be perfect, if it is in the public domain: https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/16240741.thatchers-sermon-mound-widely-misinterpreted/. --Doric Loon (talk) 01:31, 6 September 2021 (UTC)