Claim 25d05a99Checked 09 Jul 2026
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“I am not defending the worst excesses of the banking industry at all.”
Reasoning & Evidence09 Jul 2026
The public transcript shows Farage made this statement in the 2 December 2011 High Profiles interview, and the surrounding answer also criticizes the banking industry. But the claim is about his personal stance/sincerity — whether he was truly "not defending" those excesses — and that internal state cannot be independently verified from public evidence. Sources: High Profiles interview transcript, High Profiles. (highprofiles.info)
From article
If you allow banks to be very greedy, they will be very greedy, because that’s human nature – and to a large extent that is what’s happened. I am not defending the worst excesses of the banking industry at all – no doubt many of those people should be in prison for what they have done. As should the regulators and the politicians that allowed it.
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