The claim "When work in the City was busy, it was busy" is a tautological statement — it asserts that when work was busy, it was busy. This is logically true by definition and requires no external verification. The phrasing is an emphatic rhetorical reiteration (saying the same thing twice for emphasis), not an empirical assertion about measurable conditions. In context, Farage is responding to the interviewer's suggestion that his City career was "another gravy train" (i.e., easy money for little effort). His broader point is that City work in the 1980s involved periods of intense activity. That broader claim — that the City of London in the 1980s was a demanding work environment — is widely supported by historical accounts of the period (the "Big Bang" deregulation era, long hours in trading and broking). But the specific claim as stated is simply "when it was busy, it was busy," which cannot be false. No external sources required; the claim is tautological and self-evidently true by definition.

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