Claim 58563aefChecked 09 Jul 2026
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“They believed in this country.”
Reasoning & Evidence09 Jul 2026
The claim is about a private, subjective belief held by Farage’s family, and that kind of internal state cannot be independently verified from public records. Public biographical material is consistent with the general sentiment: one source describes both sides of the family as “traditional Conservatives” and “patriotic people” shaped by Britain’s role in the world wars, and notes his grandfather’s WWI service, but that still does not directly prove the specific belief that they “believed in this country.” Sources: Michael Crick, *One Party After Another* (Everand excerpt) https://www.everand.com/book/552502790/One-Party-After-Another-The-Disruptive-Life-of-Nigel-Farage ; Sky News, “Nigel Farage: From UKIP maverick to self-proclaimed 'people's army' leader” https://news.sky.com/story/from-ukip-maverick-to-self-proclaimed-peoples-army-leader-everything-you-need-to-know-as-nigel-farage-announces-general-election-bid-13147268.
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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