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Nigel Farage
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“This money was given to me so that I would be safe and secure for the rest of my life. I have tried and failed in the past to get security funded by the Home Office and I don’t think the state will ever help me.I’m very much on my own and will be for the rest of my life, and I have to face up to that grim reality. Christopher is an ardent supporter who is deeply concerned for my safety.”
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Recorded in: Farage defends £5m donation in "Farage investigated over £5m gift from crypto billionaire", The Telegraph (13 May 2026).
“Across public and economic life, the power of the Government has been brought to bear on tackling ‘inequalities’, in a narrow and specific sense. Anything which is seen to disadvantage a minority group is cracked down on. Anything which benefits a minority and damages the White British is likely to be left alone.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in "Farage claims UK is ‘anti-white two-tier state’ as he vows to evict foreign nationals from social housing", The Sun (14 Jun 2026).
“It’s not Irish nationalism. It’s not Islamist terrorism, where you broadly knew what you were dealing with. Now, you’ve got online radicalisation and lone wolves...I’ll be living with increased levels of danger until the day I die.”
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“Do you ever hear me being personally vituperative about my political adversaries? [...] No. There might be a bit of mickey-taking. The worst thing I ever did in Brussels was say somebody had the charisma of a damp rag.”
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Recorded in: Nigel Farage: 'If voters think I’m a crook, they can get rid of me'", The Telegraph (25 July 2026).
“[Referring to George Cottrell] This 'Posh George' stuff. I mean, what are they even on about? Of course, he's a Tatler figure, an interesting bloke and a colourful guy. But these are trusted friends. I don't dump trusted friends unless they betray me – it's as simple as that.”
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Recorded in: From an interview during the 2026 Clacton by-election, as cited in "'He's either the Messiah – or the Antichrist': on the campaign trail with Nigel Farage", The Spectator (31 July 2026).
“I am damned if I am going to stand on a stage, having won a resounding victory.... and be demeaned and humiliated by nobodies.”
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Recorded in: Quoted following victory: "Clacton by-election result in full: Farage wins, Count Binface sees record support and one candidate gets seven votes", The Independent (14 August 2026)
“As you are well aware, the last time the people of this country were given a say on membership of the European Union was back in 1975. This must have been a factor in your thinking when, in 2007, you gave a “cast-iron guarantee” to hold a referendum if you became Prime Minister. Since that promise, however, your message on the issue has been confusing and misleading. You say the time is not right but refuse to clarify when the time will be right. You believe that leaving would not be in our best interests and an in/out referendum is flawed because it offers a “single choice”. In last week’s Sun poll, almost 70 per cent of voters said they would like a referendum. In the same poll, a clear majority said they would like to leave the EU and yet your plans would deny them that opportunity. I believe the British people, along with many of your own backbench MPs, want and deserve a straight in/out choice in a referendum. I propose a public debate between us where we can put our respective cases forward. My challenge to you is an open and honest one and I hope you will afford me, and the people of this country, a proper say on the matter.”
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Recorded in: Letter from Nigel Farage that was hand delivered to 10 Downing Street by Nigel Farage himself, challenging the Prime Minister to an open debate on the EU, 16 July 2012. Nigel delivers challenge to Downing Street.
“I destroyed the British National Party - we had a far-right party in this country who genuinely were anti-Jew, anti-Black, all of those things, and I came along, and said to their voters, if you're holding your nose and voting for this party as a protest, don't. Come and vote for me - I'm not against anybody, I just want us to start putting British people first, and I, almost single-handedly, destroyed the far-right in British politics. If I hadn't been around, and done what I'd done, that strain of opinion would've been represented by (former BNP leader) Nick Griffin, and the BNP, and would genuinely have been motivated by hate. I'm not motivated by that, I'm not against anybody.”
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Recorded in: In an appearance on RT (earlier known as Russia Today), as cited in "Nigel Farage: I destroyed far-right in British politics" The National (Scotland, 12 August 2016)
“[Referring to his life after ceasing to be Ukip leader earlier in 2016] I am not having to deal with low-grade people every day, I am not responsible for what our branch secretary in Lower Slaughter said half-cut on Twitter last night – that isn't my fault any more. I don't have to go to eight-hour party executive meetings. I don't have to spend my life dealing with people I would never have a drink with, who I would never employ and who use me as a vehicle for their own self-promotion. There are a lot of great people in Ukip. The problem is that Ukip has become a bit like the other parties: people view it as a means to get elected.”
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Recorded in: Nigel Farage exclusive interview: On Ukip, his special relationship with Donald Trump and why he can help bring peace to the Middle East", The Telegraph (9 December 2016).
“So this is it, the final chapter, the end of the road. A 47-year political experiment that the British frankly have never been very happy with. My mother and father signed up to a common market, not to a political union, flags, anthems, presidents, and now you even want your own army. For me, it has been 27 years of campaigning and over 20 years here in this parliament. I’m not particularly happy with the agreement we’re being asked to vote on tonight. But Boris has been remarkably bold in the last few months… he’s promised us there will be no level playing field, and on that basis, I wish him every success in the next round of negotiations, I really do.”
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“What happens at 11pm this Friday the 31st of January 2020 marks the point of no return. Once we’ve left, we’re never coming back and the rest frankly is detail. We’re going, and we will be gone. And that should be the summit of my own political ambitions. I walked in here, you all thought it was terribly funny but you stopped laughing in 2016. But my view of Europe has changed since I joined. In 2005, I saw the constitution that had been drafted… and saw it rejected by the French in a referendum. I saw it rejected by the Dutch in a referendum. And I saw you, in these institutions, ignore them. [You brought it back] as the Lisbon treaty, and boast you could ram it through without there being referendums. Well, the Irish did have a vote and did say no, and were forced to vote again. You’re very good at making people to vote again, but what we’ve proved is the British are too big to bully, thank goodness. So I became an outright opponent of the whole European project. I want Brexit to start a debate across the whole of Europe. What do we want from Europe? If we want trade, friendship cooperation, reciprocity, we don’t need a European Commission, we don’t need a European court. We don’t need these institutions and all of this power. And I can promise you, both in UKIP and in the Brexit party, we love Europe. We just hate the European Union.”
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“There is a historic battle going on across the west, in Europe, America, and elsewhere. It is globalism against populism. And you may loathe populism, but I’ll tell you a funny thing. It is becoming very popular! And it has great benefits. No more financial contributions, no more European Courts of Justice. No more European Common Fisheries Policy, no more being talked down to. No more being bullied, no more Guy Verhofstadt! What’s not to like. I know you’re going to miss us, I know you want to ban our national flags, but we’re going to wave you goodbye, and we’ll look forward in the future to working with you as a sovereign nation… [Farage is cut off by the chair]”
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“I got a phone call a couple of months ago to say 'we are closing your accounts', I asked 'why', no reason was given. I was told a letter would come which will explain everything, the letter came through and simply said 'we are closing your accounts, we want to finish it all by a date', which is around about now. I didn't quite know what to make of it, I complained, I emailed the chairman, a lackey phoned me to say that it was a commercial decision, which I have to say, I don't believe for a single moment. So I thought, well there we are, I'll have to go and find a different bank, I've been to seven banks, asked them all 'could I have a personal and a business account?', and the answer has been no in every single case. There is nothing irregular or unusual about what I do, the payments that go in and come out every month are pretty much the same, I maintain in my business account quite a big positive cash balance, which I guess with interest rates where they are is pretty good for the bank too.”
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“I thought about it hard and I've decided today I will resign as a member of parliament for Clacton-on-Sea, thereby forcing a byelection … I've decided that the people of Clacton should be the judges of my actions. This will be a people versus the establishment byelection. It's a chance to stick two fingers up to the entire establishment to frankly tell them where to go and that is why I will be putting my name forward to stand in this byelection. I will fight to win. I will fight to continue the political revolution that Reform has started and I would say this to you, the voters of Clacton: If I win, you win.”
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Recorded in: Speech (7 July 2026), as cited in "Nigel Farage quits as MP amid scrutiny over finances", The Guardian (7 July 2026).
“Parliament will sit, if necessary, for 24 hours a day, for six days a week until we pass the necessary legislation, and our policies will be explicit in our offering document to the British people.I expect the House of Lords to honour that, as they've done with the Salisbury Convention for over a century. But if they don't, well we will present them with an idea.It's not a new one, it has been used before. We'll appoint hundreds of new peers so that we have a majority in the House of Lords.And if that proves difficult, we will hold a referendum on the current composition of the House of Lords, and they would be swept away by a British public appalled by them.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in "Farage: Reform officials suspended over ‘loose pub talk’", The Telegraph (05 September 2026)