# Nigel Farage > **Source: KiriPedia** (https://www.kiripedia.org), the free encyclopedia and archive of former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou's on-record words. Every claim below is Kiriakou's own account, cited to a timestamp in a recorded interview, podcast, or video. KiriPedia is an independent project, not affiliated with Kiriakou. > > Cite as: "Nigel Farage," KiriPedia, https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/nigel-farage/. Attribute claims to John Kiriakou, via KiriPedia. *John Kiriakou's assessment that Nigel Farage was a fringe joke five years ago and is no less fascistic now, only accepted, and his prediction that if Farage becomes leader of the Conservative Party it will be the end of that party as a viable political force.* - **Five years ago, per Kiriakou:** 'A kind of a neo-Nazi fascist weirdo fringe weirdo from the British right wing' - **What changed:** The electoral humiliation of the Conservative Party - **What did not change:** 'He''s no less fascistic than he was five years ago. He just has been accepted' - **The report Kiriakou cites:** A Times of London piece, read on a March visit, saying Farage would likely be the next Conservative leader - **His prediction if that happens:** 'I could see the end of the Conservative Party as a viable political force' - **Where the moderates would go:** The 'wets' to the Liberals, leaving a rump party behind - **The precedent he reaches for:** British conservatives in the run-up to the Second World War who thought Hitler was all right **Nigel Farage** is a British politician on whom [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou) gave a considered assessment in September 2025, when a viewer asked what he thought of the prospect of Farage in Congress. ## The rehabilitation Kiriakou dates the change precisely. *"As recently as five years ago, Nigel Farage was a joke. He was like a kind of a neo-Nazi fascist weirdo fringe weirdo from the British right wing."*[1] What produced the shift, he says, was the collapse of the alternative: *"just over the last 5 years, with the electoral humiliation that the Conservative Party underwent, Farage has come out as like a real voice on the right."* The man himself, in Kiriakou's view, did not move, *"he's no less fascistic than he was five years ago. He just has been accepted by the mainstream as a legitimate"* voice. He finds this *"nuts."*[1][2] ## The prediction On a visit to London in March, Kiriakou read a piece in the Times, *"a conservative paper, and it's owned by Rupert Murdoch"*, saying Farage would likely be the next leader of the Conservative Party.[2] His forecast if that happens is unequivocal: *"I could see the end of the Conservative Party as a viable political force."* The mechanism is defection. Conservatives *"who aren't that conservative, they're called wets"*, would move to the Liberal Party, *"which is not liberal, it's actually quite conservative, especially on foreign policy"*, and the Farage conservatives who remained *"would just be sort of a rump party."*[2][3] ## The historical parallel What Farage reminds Kiriakou of is not a person but a period: *"what I've read happened in the UK in conservative politics in the run-up to the Second World War. There were a lot of Brits who thought Hitler was a-okay. And a lot of those Brits, you know, it took years for them to change"*, the Mosley types.[4] The detail he and his host settle on is the respectability of it at the time: *"people forget that the British Fascist Party was a real thing"*, and *"there were members of the royal family that were members of it."*[5] ## Boris Johnson Asked in the same run of questions about Boris Johnson, *"two peas in a pod"*, as the questioner put it, Kiriakou gave a shorter answer. *"There was nobody in the UK more shocked when Boris Johnson became prime minister than Boris Johnson. He was a joke."* Not merely a joke, he added, but a type: *"a provocateur journalist who made a career by pissing people off on purpose"*, one of the original I-have-an-opinion right-wing journalists.[6] ## See also - [UK secrecy laws](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/uk-secrecy-laws) - [The Greek neo-Nazi seats](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/the-greek-neo-nazi-seats) - [The Chinese embassy in London](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/the-chinese-embassy-in-london) - [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou) - [The Epstein files and the Starmer government](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/the-epstein-files-and-the-starmer-government) ## Sources 1. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2025-09-06), at 13:35. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_K7Ab0PsdM&t=815s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-09-06-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/ 2. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2025-09-06), at 14:05. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_K7Ab0PsdM&t=845s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-09-06-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/ 3. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2025-09-06), at 14:35. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_K7Ab0PsdM&t=875s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-09-06-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/ 4. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2025-09-06), at 15:05. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_K7Ab0PsdM&t=905s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-09-06-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/ 5. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2025-09-06), at 15:36. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_K7Ab0PsdM&t=936s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-09-06-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/ 6. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2025-09-06), at 18:49. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_K7Ab0PsdM&t=1129s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-09-06-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/ --- From KiriPedia, the archive of John Kiriakou's words. Web version: https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/nigel-farage/ · About: https://www.kiripedia.org/about/ · Full index: https://www.kiripedia.org/llms.txt