Australia race politician Pauline Hanson moving to UK

[pampango]

Source: BBC

Australian former anti-immigration politician Pauline Hanson is selling up and heading to Britain, according to an interview with an Australian magazine. Ms Hanson built a career on claims that Australia was being "swamped by Asians".

"Sadly, the land of opportunity is no more applicable," she said, blaming high taxes, over-regulation and a "lack of true representation".

"There was a time when she articulated a cry of rage from a section of the Australian population," the Herald Sun newspaper quoted Mr Abbott as saying. "But that time has passed and she's now chosen to go in different directions and that's her right."

Ms Hanson was popular with some Australians in the 1990s with her anti-immigration and trade protection policies, before losing her seat in 1998. At its peak, her One Nation party attracted a million votes. In 2007, she ran unsuccessfully for a national Senate seat, switching her target from Asians to Islam and calling for an end to immigration by Muslims to protect "Australian culture".

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8515977.stm

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Sounds like a Teabagger in the making. Good thing she's headed to the UK, not here. Maybe she can find a home in the BNP. She sounds like a perfect fit for them. :) In 2006, 6.7% of Australian claimed to be of Asian heritage, though it wasn't clear how many of those were first generation immigrants and how many were native-born Austalians.

If she thinks Australia is the land of "high taxes and over-regulation", wait til she gets to the UK and the EU.

[LeftishBrit]

1. Uggh, haven't we got enough RW politicians here already?!

Wish our government would decide that she's an illegal immigrant and send her back to Australia!

[dipsydoodle]

2. Well - she might not like it here

in which case she can fuck off back to where she came from. I think you know that expression which is generally applied to all who enter and don't accept what's normal here - in this case the absense of issues of integration of Asians into the UK population since 1948 and probably before that too.

[dipsydoodle]

3. BTW - incase you didn't know

and just out of general interest - what Australians refer to as Asian differs from the UK refers to Asian.

[pampango]

4. BNP leader Nick Griffin welcomes Australian politician Pauline Hanson's move to Britain

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/7256068/BNP-leader-Nick-Griffin-welcomes-Australian-politician-Pauline-Hansons-move-to-Britain.html

"The decision by the controversial former anti-immigration Australian politician Pauline Hanson to emigrate to Britain has been welcomed by the BNP leader Nick Griffin, who said she would be a 'good addition' to the UK."

"It is not known where exactly she plans to settle, but she said she would consider buying a property in the English countryside. Mr. Griffin warned Miss Hanson to choose her new home carefully because Britain had become one of the "most overcrowded" nations in the world, thanks - he claimed - to the Labour Party's decision to admit "three million spongers".

"He claimed that more than 100,000 "indigenous" Londoners had fled the British capital every year over the past two decades.

"It has been a relentless flow because they can't stand living there and feeling like foreigners in their own city. I'd recommend she stay away from inner London and go off and find somewhere that is recognisably still British. Any of the smaller towns or the country, places you know you are in Britain and are not the Third World yet," he told the Sydney Morning Herald."
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Looks like the BNP know a PR opportunity when it sees one. :)