Claim 96c53dc9Checked 09 Jul 2026
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“People laugh at that.”
Reasoning & Evidence09 Jul 2026
The transcript confirms that Nigel Farage said this line in the 2 December 2011 interview, but the truth of "People laugh at that" depends on how other people reacted, and public sources do not let us measure that reliably. Farage’s own description of his finances was controversial — later reporting noted his MEP salary was €8,484 a month and that MEPs earned €101,808 a year before tax, plus expenses — but that still does not establish that people generally laughed at his claim. Sources: High Profiles interview transcript (highprofiles.info); The Guardian reporting on Farage’s MEP salary (theguardian.com). (highprofiles.info)
From article
You write that when you left school ‘I had worlds to conquer’ and it struck me: He’s not one of those men who want to save the world, he wants to conquer it.
I was fiercely ambitious when I was 18. Fiercely ambitious. And that ambition was to succeed in business and make a lot of money – that was how I thought and how I felt. But I’ve changed, haven’t I, because I’m not pursuing that course any more. In many ways I’ve turned my back on a life of money completely – I mean, much of the last 10 years has been grinding poverty. People laugh at that, but actually if you’re trying to bring up a big family earning half what a GP earns…
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| [1] | highprofiles.info |
| [2] | euractiv.com |
| [3] | theguardian.com |