Claim ca4d35fdChecked 09 Jul 2026
TrueOn the truth scale
“In the book, you remark that Imperial weights and measures are ‘infinitely superior’ to anything that ‘Napoleon and his bureaucrats’...”
Interpreted ashyperbole
“In the book, you say Imperial weights and measures are much better than anything that Napoleon and his bureaucrats...”
Reasoning & Evidence09 Jul 2026
The claim is substantively correct. In Nigel Farage’s autobiography *Flying Free*, he says that “our weights and measures system” is “more user-friendly, adaptable and natural than” the alternative “designed ... by Napoleon’s bureaucrats.” That matches the interview’s paraphrase that he says Imperial weights and measures are much better than Napoleon’s system, even though the interview uses looser wording than the book itself. Sources: *Flying Free* (Nigel Farage, via Everand preview) — https://www.everand.com/book/641432322/Flying-Free ; High Profiles interview with Nigel Farage — https://highprofiles.info/interview/nigel-farage/
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You certainly don’t come across as a ‘little Englander’ – and yet you do remark in the book that Imperial weights and measures are ‘infinitely superior’ to anything that ‘Napoleon and his bureaucrats’ –
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