Claim e1d99421Checked 09 Jul 2026
TrueOn the truth scale
“You write about what shedloads of money you were getting.”
Interpreted asidiom
“You write about getting a lot of money.”
Reasoning & Evidence09 Jul 2026
The claim is accurate. In the interview material, Farage is described as having written about the City as a place where he was "making a lot of money," and an Independent profile summarizes his first book as saying he was "handling millions and drinking more or less continuously." That supports the interviewer’s statement that he wrote about getting a lot of money. Sources: High Profiles interview with Nigel Farage (https://highprofiles.info/interview/nigel-farage/); The Independent, "Nigel Farage: 'Politicians govern through fear'" (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-politicians-govern-through-fear-6297949.html).
From article
You write about how much fun you had, ‘drinking more or less continuously’, and what shedloads of money you were getting. What have you got in common with the kind of people you identify as the rank and file of Ukip: farmers, deep-sea fishermen, small shopkeepers? These are people whose living is often precarious, sometimes very dangerous, never ‘fun’, and they work very hard.
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| [1] | highprofiles.info |
| [2] | independent.co.uk |