Did Farage really say this?

I don't know...

Here is a document which might assist in determination of the matter, this one is from 2005

The thing to bear in mind about this is that it comes from a time when we did not bother to record departures remotely as robustly as arrivals

I would say however that either accidentally or possibly deliberately you choose to throw a red herring into the reality of the problem

Britain has, ever since 1971 and Ted Heath's Immigration Act had contol, or perhaps some vestige of such, managed from within the UK and by an office of state and a government answerable to UK passport holders (until the welsh wanker gave children and immigrants a fucking vote) over those who desire to enter the country from non EEA areas to work. 

I may or may not agree with the specifics that such people are needed; i assisted in revealing to a select committee the fact that blair was a complete fucking liar in his representations to parliament that there was a need for such people with a particular skill set from India, and said select committee had his scam closed down. That serves as the most obvious and stark reminder of the fact we, the citizens of the united kingdom, had a voice and had the means to demand control of the access granted to such persons. I am content that I have a say in the determination of who from OUTSIDE the EEA is allowed in and who is told to fuck off, and that say comes around at the ballot box every time the UK parliament is prorogued

In stark contrast as was pointed out by me back in 2010, regardless of how many of them wished to come, there was nothibg stopping every single one of the over 400 million, but less than 500 million individuals in posession of citizenship in an EU27 country travellng perfectly legally to the border at Calais, showing theie EU identity papers whatever they might be, and boarding a ferry, eurostar or aircraft destined for the UK, and once here demanding a NINO and the chance to aply for work here, and there was ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ANY UK PASSPORT HOLDER OR CITIZEN BORN HERE COULD DO TO STOP THEM.

It was never a numbers game, it was always an entitlement one. The entire EU27 working age cohort (a number between those figures given above, as admitted by a report availale in the library of the UK Office of The European Parliament across the road from the House of Commons, a place i visited as a candidate in the 2010 election and whose staff were happy to provide me a copy of the said document which i probably have here in ths office somewhere even now) were ENTITLED under the treaty of rome to rock up here and demand entry and NO ONE could stop them. There WERE powers to chuck them out if they failed to find work inside three months, whch no UK government seemed interested in using, but that was not the point either.

The fact is we the people had a very definite way to record our pleasure or not in the choices our government made in allowing people from outside the EEA int this country to work, whereas we has ansolutely fuck all say in the process by which about 500 million COULD walk in here and destroy every aspect of our british life IF they wanted to.