The claim that Nigel Farage was "focused on the threat from Brussels" (i.e., the European Union) as of December 2011 is abundantly supported by public evidence. At the time, Farage was the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), a party whose foundational and defining issue was opposition to UK membership of the EU. Wikipedia notes that opposition to EU membership was UKIP's "core issue" and "central to the party's identity." Farage had been an MEP since 1999 and built his entire political career around Euroscepticism. Multiple BBC articles from 2011 document Farage campaigning on EU issues — accusing the European Commission of "arrogance" over the EU budget (BBC, October 2011), accusing David Cameron of "EU deception" at UKIP's autumn conference (BBC, November 2011), and arguing that the eurozone crisis had created a "German-dominated Europe" (HuffPost, November 2011). A piece Farage himself wrote for LondonLovesBusiness in November 2011 was titled "Who will defend the City?" and focused entirely on what he called the "threat" from Brussels to London's financial services sector. The BBC's profile of Farage notes that he was "the face of Euroscepticism in the UK for getting on for two decades" and that Europe, and particularly migration to the UK from EU countries, was central to his political identity. Even UKIP's own conference in 2011 acknowledged the need to show the party was "more than a single-issue party," which itself confirms that the EU was its primary and dominant focus. Sources: BBC News, "UKIP leader Farage says budget row shows EU 'arrogance'" (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-13160367); BBC News, "UKIP conference: Farage accuses PM of 'EU deception'" (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-14850083); BBC News, "UKIP stance on Europe 'becoming mainstream'" (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14835080); HuffPost UK, "Nigel Farage: Crisis Has Created 'German Dominated' Europe" (https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/11/16/nigel-farage-german-dominated-europe_n_1096786.html); LondonLovesBusiness, "Nigel Farage: Who will defend the City?" (https://londonlovesbusiness.com/nigel-farage-who-will-defend-the-city/); Wikipedia, "UK Independence Party" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ukip); BBC News, "Profile: UKIP leader Nigel Farage" (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26823817)