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“I have a minor conflict in my mind about the Civil War.”
Reasoning & Evidence09 Jul 2026
This claim describes Nigel Farage’s private mental state (“a minor conflict in my mind”), which cannot be independently verified or disproved from public evidence. The High Profiles transcript of the 2 December 2011 interview shows that he said this, but that only confirms the utterance, not whether the internal feeling was actually true. Sources: High Profiles, “Nigel Farage” interview (https://highprofiles.info/interview/nigel-farage/).
From article
Well, I’m Cavalier by instinct and by lifestyle. I mean, I don’t like Roundheads. You know, you can be Christian and fun or you can be Christian and, like Cromwell, be deeply puritanical and want to control everybody. So, yes, the Civil War is terribly important but I accept that there is a minor conflict in my mind on it.
Ultimately, the importance of the Civil War and the republic and what happened in the 1680s is that we put together, I think, a constitutional settlement as good as anything in the world, really. We had a system of government that we all understood. We all understood. OK, there wasn’t full emancipation, but from then on general elections really mattered. And my argument is that since [Britain joined the European Economic Community, the forerunner of the European Union, in] 19732The year that Edward Heath’s government took Britain into what was then the European Economic Community that has gradually been diminishing, to the point now where it doesn’t really make any difference who’s in No 10. I mean, it doesn’t matter to the City any more whether it’s Tory or Labour.
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