Aussie Anti-Immigration Politician Immigrates to Old Britannia

[Babbler]

Australia race MP 'moving to UK'

Australian former anti-immigration politician Pauline Hanson is selling up and heading to Britain, according to an interview with an Australian magazine.

She told Women's Day that Australia was no longer a land of opportunity and she had "had enough" of living there.

Ms Hanson built a career on claims that Australia was being "swamped by Asians"

She was jailed briefly for fraud before the conviction was quashed. Her efforts to stage a political comeback in recent years have failed.

"I'm going to be away indefinitely. It's pretty much goodbye forever," said Ms Hanson, 56.

"I've really had enough. I want peace in my life. I want contentment, and that's what I'm aiming for."

She told the magazine she would "never be given a chance to re-enter parliament" and wanted to "get out there" while she still had her health.

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

Ms Hanson's father was born in England before emigrating to Australia, meaning she has the right to live in the UK.

'Swamped'

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said he was disappointed by Ms Hanson's decision but that it was her decision to make.

"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".

Last year, Hanson blamed her failure in the Queensland state election on the publication of raunchy photos purportedly taken by an ex-boyfriend. The pictures turned out not to be of her.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/asia-pacific/8515977.stm

Published: 2010/02/15 14:13:24 GMT

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So should the UK let her in, if they can stop her?

 

[JohnRM]

When does the party start?

 

[Karalysia]

Wait she's going to the UK because she doesn't like Asian immigrants?

I have some bad news for her....

 

[Cheetah]

Wait she's going to the UK because she doesn't like Asian immigrants?

I have some bad news for her....

Shh. If you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say anything at all - until afterwards.

 

[Tee Kay]

Good bye, travel well

 

[otago]

Australia's Palin.
Remember when she was asked if she was not being xenophobic and she asked, please explain what xenophobic means
The reason she is worried is that she can see China from her house.
Give Palin five years and she will be a big a joke as this woman is.

 

[OscarWildebeest]

It just shows how feeble the UK's immigration laws are, that they can let undesirables into the country so easily.

 

[PiMan]

It just shows how feeble the UK's immigration laws are, that they can let undesirables into the country so easily.

I don't think she's any worse than the UK's home grown BNP

 

[RedRalph]

Irony is dead

 

[nonconformist]

I think the Tories are looking for a new Shadow Home Secretary

 

[Tee Kay]

Australia's Palin.

Luckily she was never likely to lead the country as prime minister.

 

[OscarWildebeest]

I don't think she's any worse than the UK's home grown BNP

Irony is dead

Nice to have my work done for me.

 

[useless]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4tZRZSGxcE Need i say more

 

[Camikaze]

Good riddance.

I believe the UK can't stop her from emigrating because one of her parents was British born, so she can apply for dual citizenship, or something. But I would laugh so, so hard if they did somehow manage to. Not that I'm not laughing at her complete hypocrisy in moving, but her being not accepted as an immigrant would make me so, so happy.

Luckily she was never likely to lead the country as prime minister.

+1 for parliamentary democracy.

 

[Tee Kay]

Not that I'm not laughing at her complete hypocrisy in moving, but her being not accepted as an immigrant would make me so, so happy.

That'd be great actually I'd kinda feel sorry for her if that happens, but it'd still be hilarious

 

[Camikaze]

And gotta say too, the Australian media (the Women's Day in this case, if you can call them part of the media) should be widely condemned for giving her such a platform throughout her career. It's disgusting that she was not universally reviled largely due to the media's portrayal of her as a nice lady.

 

[Tee Kay]

And gotta say too, the Australian media (the Women's Day in this case, if you can call them part of the media) should be widely condemned for giving her such a platform throughout her career. It's disgusting that she was not universally reviled largely due to the media's portrayal of her as a nice lady.

Well, it's a free country. One can't deny someone access to the media even if that person's a xenophobic bigot. In any case, xenophobia can be quite appealing to some people.

 

[Camikaze]

Sure, she had a right to have access to the media, but it would've been good for the media to have let her make an absolute fool of herself all the time, and show her for the despicable woman she is, rather than present her as a concerned patriotic Australian who isn't all that good at dancing.

 

[Captain Carnage]

Good riddance you crusty old wench

 

[Tee Kay]

Sure, she had a right to have access to the media, but it would've been good for the media to have let her make an absolute fool of herself all the time, and show her for the despicable woman she is, rather than present her as a concerned patriotic Australian who isn't all that good at dancing.

... because it sells.