Claim 75f457e4Checked 09 Jul 2026
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“You identify farmers, deep-sea fishermen, and small shopkeepers as the rank and file of Ukip.”
Reasoning & Evidence09 Jul 2026
The High Profiles transcript of the 2 December 2011 Nigel Farage interview contains Huw Spanner asking exactly whether Farage sees “farmers, deep-sea fishermen, small shopkeepers” as “the rank and file of Ukip,” which directly supports the claim. Farage then continues the exchange without rejecting that characterization. Sources: High Profiles interview with Nigel Farage (https://highprofiles.info/interview/nigel-farage/).
From article
You write about how much fun you had, ‘drinking more or less continuously’, and what shedloads of money you were getting. What have you got in common with the kind of people you identify as the rank and file of Ukip: farmers, deep-sea fishermen, small shopkeepers? These are people whose living is often precarious, sometimes very dangerous, never ‘fun’, and they work very hard.
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