UKIP did attract a strand of working-class, Labour-voting support, which is the political group Farage was referring to with the phrase “patriotic old Labour.” A 2011 analysis by Robert Ford and Matthew Goodwin found that UKIP’s “core loyalists” were more working class and more likely to come from Labour-voting families, and a UK government report later summarized research showing UKIP had “a wing of working-class supporters who tend to come from Labour-voting backgrounds.” Farage himself used the same description in a 2011 Guardian interview, saying UKIP drew support from “patriotic old Labour.” (theguardian.com) Sources: The Guardian (“Labour, fear Ukip”); UK government BIS report (“How Might Changes in Political Allegiances Affect Notions of Identity in the Next Ten Years?”); The Guardian interview with Nigel Farage (“Farage says Ukip could offer Tories electoral pact in return for referendum”).