Claim 700e217d
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“It would be silly to say that a political party could represent the whole country.”
The operative claim is an evaluation of the statement as 'silly,' not a testable assertion about the world. It expresses the speaker’s judgment about the idea that a party could represent the whole country, so it is stored as an evaluative judgement rather than assessed as factual.
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It would be silly to say that – you could never, ever represent the whole country – and since I was elected to the European Parliament I’ve always said that I’m not going to represent the whole constituency (and remember it’s vast – six million voters), I’m there to represent the people who voted for me and to use that position to try to persuade others that we are actually right.
But the interesting thing about [the UK Independence Party] is that it attracts an incredibly diverse range of people. We pick up what I would call ‘patriotic Old Labour’, we pick up classical liberals who hate the big state and believe in individual freedom and we pick up traditional Tories who believe in the country. And don’t forget that when we started [in 1993], only about six of us in the country believed in this.
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