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“Farage is not conflicted about the fact that what they did overall was for a social good.”
Reasoning & Evidence21 Jul 2026
The claim asserts something about Nigel Farage's internal state of mind — that he is genuinely "not conflicted" about whether the work he and his City colleagues did was "overall for a social good." This is a subjective, introspective claim. While Farage did publicly state this in the interview, and has made similar statements elsewhere, there is no public evidence that can independently verify or contradict his claimed internal psychological state. We can confirm the utterance was made, but the truth of whether he actually feels no conflict is not something that can be established through external sources, public records, or any available evidence. The claim rests entirely on his self-reported feelings, which fall into the category of a "claimed state of mind."
Sources: The interview itself (High Profiles, 2 December 2011) confirms only that Farage made the statement; no public source can independently verify his internal state of mind regarding conflict or lack thereof.
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The pressure of being a market-maker in a busy market, when you’ve got people all around you screaming and shouting at you and you’re dealing in numbers and it’s like that, that, that, that – that’s pretty pressurised. That’s why it’s a young man’s job. You don’t get many 50-year-old money-brokers: they can’t do it any more. Goodness me! It’s not an easy job. Not an easy job.
When I joined the City, it was the dying days of a gentlemen’s club: magnificent, socially wonderful but going nowhere – there was still a whiff of P G Wodehouse about people who toddled off to the City all day and did things that nobody understood at all. But what I saw in the Eighties and Nineties was London becoming in many ways a genuine global centre for entrepreneurial flair, for innovation, for very hard work – and for creating profits. And without those profits we can’t have the schools and hospitals we need in this country – it’s very, very simple. I am absolutely not conflicted in any way at all about the fact that what we did, overall, was for a social good.
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