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These people absolutely hate this country.
Nigel Farage·Nigel Farage - High Profiles·ArticleFactual · claimed non public knowledge
Reasoning & Evidence21 Jul 2026
The claim asserts that there are British people working in the European Commission who "absolutely hate this country" — the UK — and everything it stands for. This is a claim about the internal emotional states and personal attitudes of unnamed individuals working at an institution. My searches did not surface any public evidence identifying specific British European Commission staff who express hatred toward the UK. There are no named individuals, no documented statements, and no surveys or studies measuring the patriotism or anti-British sentiment of British EU officials. The search results cover general discussions about British staff in EU institutions, their career prospects after Brexit, and Farage's broader rhetorical attacks on EU federalism, but none of these constitute evidence that British Commission staff "hate" the UK. The claim is inherently unfalsifiable as stated: it concerns the private feelings of unspecified people. No public dataset, statement, or report can confirm or deny that unnamed British Commission officials harbor hatred toward their own country. Farage offers no examples, names, or documented evidence. Even if one found British officials who criticized UK government policy or supported European integration (which would be unsurprising for people who chose to work in EU institutions), that would not substantiate the claim that they "absolutely hate this country and everything it's ever stood for." Because the claim is about the private emotional states of unnamed individuals and no public evidence exists to corroborate or contradict it, this falls into the not-enough-evidence category. Sources: The search results included the original High Profiles interview (https://highprofiles.info/interview/nigel-farage/) confirming the statement was made, and articles about British staff in EU institutions from Prospect Magazine (https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/40144/the-last-post-what-is-life-like-for-british-officials-still-in-the-eu-institutions) and UK in a Changing EU (https://ukandeu.ac.uk/british-officials-in-the-eus-institutions/), none of which provide evidence about the private attitudes of British Commission staff toward the UK.
From article
Oh Lord, yes. Absolutely. Oh, there are British fanatics working in the European Commission. People who absolutely hate this country, everything it is and everything it’s ever stood for. Filled with self-loathing.
Sources opened
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https://highprofiles.info/interview/nigel-farage/
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https://www.politico.eu/article/nigel-farage-i-want-martin-selmayr-to-become-the-most-famous-person-in-the-whole-of-europe/
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https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/07/12/exclusive-farage-darroch-fanatic-europhile-uk-civil-service-stop-brexit/
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http://www.ianbirrell.com/fascists-felons-and-fanatical-fools-ugly-truth-about-farages-friends-in-brussels/
[6]spectator.com
https://spectator.com/article/working-in-brussels-i-saw-the-dark-side-of-the-eu/
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https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/40144/the-last-post-what-is-life-like-for-british-officials-still-in-the-eu-institutions
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https://ukandeu.ac.uk/british-officials-in-the-eus-institutions/
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https://www.politico.eu/article/ecr-fires-british-staffers-post-brexit-restructuring/
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