UK Far Right are squabbling over Australian politicians. ™©2026

Seems the far right in the UK are squabbling over Australian politicians or former politicians currently, Pauline Hanson being one who has recently met or spoken with Rupert Lowe, and Reform.

While Reform are suddenly fronting former Australian politicians for their ‘Stop the boats crusade’ to stay relevant and head back to their comfort zone, as they take a kicking in the polls.

Familiar names, familiar games, familiar stunts, familiar phrases, familiar behaviour.

The far right doesn’t do originality, if it managed to locate some as fast as it can locate rage, they might gather some interest.

It’s not all Muslims, the same as it is never all Asians, so we have to point out, it’s not all far right racist types, till, it is, right?

A recent clip has also gone viral of Tommy Robinson appearing to be trying to court her attention and being rebuffed by an Australian TV crew when he was pressed about his message versus the reality of who he actually is.

No similar clip has shown up yet of Rupert Lowe or Farage being given the same scrutiny, which seems, odd?

Pauline Hanson is an Australian far right politician who has turned racism into a business model, built a small but durable party around it, & is now shopping that brand into Britain’s already rotten far right ecosystem.

Any of that sound familiar?

Shopping directly out of the right wing populist MAGA playbook, from those who are already running the MAGA playbook.

How is any of this homegrown, when it’s imported from another country? 😂

One Nation Deflation:

That ranty woman, who is she and why is she so annoying and angry all the time?

Le sigh…

In we go. 👇

Pauline Lee Hanson, born 1954 in Brisbane, is a long running figure in Australian politics & the current leader of the party branded around her name, Pauline Hanson’s One Nation. She first entered federal politics in 1996 as MP for Oxley in Queensland, winning as an ostensible Liberal candidate even after the party disendorsed her over racist comments about Aboriginal Australians.

Her maiden speech in 1996 made her famous: she warned Australia was in danger of being “swamped by Asians,” attacked Indigenous land rights & welfare, & railed against multiculturalism as “reverse racism” against “mainstream Australians.” Since then she has been widely classified by researchers & media as radical right, far right & right wing populist, using a familiar mix of nativism, grievance & culture war.

Hanson’s political arc is a loop: fall out with a party, weaponise the fallout as proof of “political correctness,” then cash in. After being dumped by the Liberals but winning Oxley, she rode the media coverage to launch One Nation in 1997 with associates David Oldfield & David Ettridge, tapping discontent among rural & working class voters.

In the late 1990s One Nation polled around 9 percent nationally & spooked the mainstream right into hardening immigration policy to stop her peeling off their base, something contemporaneous critics described as the Coalition “stealing her clothes” rather than confronting her racism. Even after losing her seat in 1998 she stayed in the public eye, contesting state & federal elections, launching a short lived “United Australia Party,” then rejoining One Nation & returning to parliament as a senator for Queensland in 2016.

A key moment was her 2017 burqa stunt, repeated in 2025: she walked into the Australian Senate wearing a burqa to demand it be banned, prompting outrage & eventually a formal censure & suspension from the Senate for seven sitting days. These kinds of pseudo events are not random: media scholars describe them as calculated content designed to generate outrage cycles, keep her brand in circulation & feed a narrative of a lone truth teller punished by “elites.”

One Nation is less a traditional party & more a personalised vehicle, structurally & symbolically. The party’s support has grown enough that some polling now puts it second to Labor nationally, with votes cannibalised largely from the conservative Liberal–National coalition, especially among regional voters angry about immigration, housing & cost of living.

Analysts note the appeal: One Nation offers simple, high salience promises like border crackdowns, mass deportations & hostility to multiculturalism, which demand less actual governing competence than fixing housing, infrastructure or productivity. This suits Hanson’s modus operandi: stay in permanent campaign mode, monetise outrage, keep power centralised around her persona rather than building a broad, policy competent organisation.

Financially & socially, she is embedded in a conservative donor & media ecosystem. She has longstanding ties with mining magnate Gina Rinehart, Australia’s wealthiest individual, who recently paid for Hanson’s flights from London to attend a Dolce & Gabbana fashion show in Sicily.

That trip coincided with her UK & Europe tour, giving her both a luxury lifestyle backdrop & another chance to present herself as a player in global conservative circles.

Hanson’s core message has never really changed, only updated its targets. In the 1990s it was “Asians,” Indigenous Australians & multiculturalism; now it is Muslims, African migrants, “illegal” arrivals & an alleged erosion of “Anglo Celtic” & “Judeo Christian” culture.

On a recent UK visit she used a podcast with far right British activist Tommy Robinson to complain about the abolition of Australia’s White Australia policy, blaming that historic change for modern migration “problems.” In the same interview she made contested claims about Muslim immigration, hinted at countries she would target for travel bans, & repeated unsubstantiated allegations about Muslim Australians exploiting welfare schemes such as the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

She has also promoted mass deportations as both an Australian & British policy tool. At a UK Conservative Political Action Conference linked event she enthused over a “mass deportations” pamphlet from British far right figure Rupert Lowe, saying they were “on the same page” & that she “loved” the idea.

This aligns with her party’s rhetoric about deporting large numbers of “illegal” migrants within tight timetables, using “hostile environment” tactics to force “voluntary” or coerced returns.

Hanson’s trajectory includes criminal prosecution & time in prison, which she now folds into a martyrdom narrative. In 2003 she was convicted of electoral fraud over One Nation’s registration & sentenced to three years, serving about eleven weeks before the Queensland Court of Appeal overturned the conviction. That episode cemented her story that the “establishment” uses the law to crush dissent.

Pseudo events & theatrical stunts are another constant. Wearing a burqa in the Senate in 2017 & again in 2025, then being suspended after the second repeat, is explicitly described by analysts as an attempt to generate scandal & push her brand globally. In 2026 she released a self promoting film project, billed as A Super Progressive Movie or a “Please Explain” movie, which serves as both propaganda & merch for her personal narrative.

Media researchers examining her strategy argue that Hanson churns out “pseudo events” that exist primarily to be filmed, clipped & shared, allowing her to reach millions of people beyond Australia through outrage virality. Her recent National Press Club appearance, where she laid out an “ugly picture” of what a hypothetical

One Nation government would do, highlighted policies on deportations, immigration & culture war that play well with her base but alarm everyone else.

Hanson’s current European tour is explicitly about plugging into Britain’s far right & importing their talking points straight back into Australian politics. She has attended the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in London, where she sat front row to hear Nigel Farage speak & was framed by the event as a peer in an international populist movement.

During this tour she has:

• Appeared on a one hour podcast with Tommy Robinson, recorded in Luton & structured as a walking interview through a town with a large Muslim population.

• Met with Nigel Farage & his Reform UK orbit, aligning on themes of mass migration, “stop the boats” rhetoric & hostility to “woke” policies.

• Toured parts of London such as Tower Hamlets with Conservative politician Robert Jenrick, using the backdrop to deliver talking points about immigration & cultural change.

• Met Rupert Lowe of Restore Britain at the home of Australian born British celebrity Holly Valance, where she was handed a mass deportation policy paper she embraced.

A Guardian analysis describes this as a “fact finding mission” in name only: in practice she is collecting prepackaged culture war scripts & deportation blueprints from British operators, to re export into Australia while also branding herself as a global figure in anti immigration politics.

At the same time, British far right media & networks get an exotic Australian senator to show their base that their ideas are part of a wider “civilisational” crusade, not just domestic grifting.

The connections are not only symbolic. One Nation has drawn directly on British political operatives linked to Reform UK. Former UK Conservative MP Tom Hunt, who later joined Nigel Farage’s Reform party, has been advising One Nation on social media strategy during Australian elections & by elections. Financial disclosures in South Australia show Hunt being paid by One Nation linked campaigns, confirming a tangible consulting relationship.

Parallel to that, the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC), a London based conference network co founded by Jordan Peterson & backed by GB News investor Paul Marshall, has been described as a hub trying to align hard right politics in the UK & Australia. ARC hosts Reform UK figures, big Reform donors & Australian conservatives on its advisory board, while assisting Australian campaigns such as Advance Australia in opposing Indigenous rights initiatives.

In that ecosystem, Hanson’s UK tour fits into a broader project: synchronising Australian & British anti Muslim, anti migrant politics, with shared donors, messaging, & cultural scripts.

For British audiences, she is marketed as the Australian proof of concept that sustained racist politics can be normalised & institutionalised, something Reform UK’s strategists are openly studying.

The same conferences & networks bring Hanson into loose orbit with US hard right circles. CPAC itself is an American export, with US conservative consultants & figures appearing at its UK franchise alongside Hanson. She has shared stages or events with people such as Mercedes Schlapp, a former White House communications director under Donald Trump, who attended the London CPAC where Hanson was present.

US aligned donors & media backers also intersect via ARC & GB News: ARC’s board & funders include people connected to Reform UK donors, some of whom have poured millions into Farage’s party.

Hanson’s presence in that circuitry is primarily as content & validation, but it also potentially opens Australian politics to US style “movement” funding & cross promotion.

For a British audience, the danger with Hanson is not that she suddenly conquers Westminster, but that she provides proof that explicitly racist politics can be laundered into respectability & profit, then franchised. She has normalised talking about “mass deportations,” revisiting the logic of White Australia, & describing immigration as a civilisational threat, while remaining a sitting legislator & party leader.

Her trip to the UK shows several risk vectors:

• Narrative laundering: British slogans about “hostile environments” & deportation schemes travel back to Australia cleansed as “international best practice,” while Australian racist tropes are imported into British discourse as “plain speaking.”

• Policy contamination: documents like Restore Britain’s “Mass Deportations” blueprint become shared reference points for both British & Australian hard right actors, allowing them to push similar programmes under the cover of “others are doing it too.”

• Brand cross pollination: sharing platforms with Farage, Robinson & British Conservative figures offers mutual legitimacy, especially when mainstream media cover it as politics rather than extremism.

In practical terms, she gives UK far right actors a friendly foreign senator who will nod along when they call for stripping rights from migrants, Muslims & racialised communities.

That symbolism can be leveraged both in media & in behind the scenes lobbying, including with donors who enjoy seeing their pet projects go global.

She has been filmed & photographed with Farage, Lowe, Robinson & other British right wing players, while Australian broadcasters follow her with camera crews to turn the whole excursion into a packaged spectacle.

One segment on Australia’s Seven Network’s Spotlight showed Hanson being handed the “mass deportations” pamphlet by Rupert Lowe & responding that she “loved” the concept, with the piece framed as part of a wider “stop the boats” narrative familiar to British viewers. Separate coverage by ABC & SBS highlighted her podcast with Tommy Robinson, noting his record as a convicted criminal & notorious anti Muslim agitator, & asking whether her decision to associate with him was “un Australian” or politically suicidal.

Interestingly, even Farage signalled discomfort with the Tommy Robinson tie in, reportedly saying it “wouldn’t have been my choice” for her to appear on his podcast, while still praising her longevity & anti immigration stance.

That tension speaks to a tactical split: some UK populists want to mainstream their message through TV friendly respectability, while others lean into open extremism; Hanson currently tries to straddle both.

Reform UK’s agenda & One Nation’s platform are remarkably aligned: they both want sharply reduced immigration, an aggressive “stop the boats” posture, & rolling back or freezing climate & renewable energy policies. Through figures like Tom Hunt & events like CPAC & ARC, they share consultants, talking points & donors.

Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain sits slightly further out on the hard right flank but acts as a policy lab for ideas like mass deportations within three years, framed as administratively feasible & legally justifiable.

Hanson’s enthusiastic response to Lowe’s paper during their meeting in London essentially gives a foreign senator’s seal of approval to that platform, which in turn can be used by British actors to argue their proposals are part of a broader, global “common sense” movement.

You can see what this thing is turning into. If you want it to keep going after Farage, Reform, GBNews & the rest with receipts, some of you are going to have to sling it meat. Everyone else can keep watching it hunt from a safe distance.

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