Claim c5a5a380Checked 09 Jul 2026
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“I have absolutely no problem working with both systems.”
Reasoning & Evidence09 Jul 2026
Public sources do confirm that Nigel Farage worked as a commodities trader/commodity broker, including at the London Metal Exchange and later in metals trading. They also show that commodity markets can use both metric-tonne and US-cents-per-pound conventions. (highprofiles.info) However, those sources do not independently prove the subjective claim that he had "absolutely no problem" working with both systems. That is a personal-ease statement, and the needed evidence is not publicly verifiable. Sources: High Profiles interview (highprofiles.info/interview/nigel-farage/); Nigel Farage official/about pages (nfarage.com/about/, nigelfarage.co/biography); CME Group Agricultural Conversion Calculators (cmegroup.com/tools-information/ag-calculator.html); London Metal Exchange Copper page (lme.com/copper).
From article
Listen, I was a commodity broker, right? We bought and sold copper in US cents per pound or in deutschmarks per tonne. I have absolutely no problem working with both systems – you know, 2.20462 is deeply embedded in my brain. I just happen to think that to criminalise the language of Shakespeare is an appalling thing to do – and actually sums up, really, everything that is wrong with this European entanglement.
You ask [your greengrocer] for a pound of bananas. If he weighs them out and sells them to you, he’ll have broken the law. Steve Thoburn from Sunderland got a criminal record for it and died at the age of 39 because of the hassle. Who needs to live in a country like that?
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| [1] | highprofiles.info |
| [2] | cmegroup.com |