Claim 1820cbebChecked 09 Jul 2026
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“They believed that the sacrifices they had lived through in two world wars had been worthwhile to keep our freedom and democracy.”
Reasoning & Evidence09 Jul 2026
The claim is a statement about what Farage’s relatives privately believed, and there is no independent public evidence that can confirm or disprove those internal beliefs. The interview transcript does show that Farage said this about his family, and other biographical sources confirm his family had wartime connections and a patriotic/conservative background, but that still does not verify the exact belief attributed to them. In short: the wording is publicly attested, but the underlying fact about his family’s beliefs is not independently verifiable from public sources. Sources: High Profiles interview with Nigel Farage; The Guardian profile/interview on Farage’s family background and wartime references; Campaign for an Independent Britain article discussing Farage’s grandfather’s WWI service. (highprofiles.info)
From article
Well, you know, this is all rather silly, isn’t it, because, actually, calling somebody ‘a damp rag’ is a pretty minor form of abuse compared with what happens every Wednesday at Prime Minister’s Questions.
My family, both my mother’s side and my father’s, were very patriotic people. They believed in this country, they believed that the sacrifices they’d lived through through two world wars, awful though they were, had been worthwhile to keep our freedom and democracy. When I was small, you could never spend time with my grandparents without them talking about the past. One of my grandfathers was wounded in the Great War, in a very nasty action in which the corporal got the VC.
We were basically, on both sides, traditionally Conservative – but all mega-Thatcherite, because that was a breath of fresh air.
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