Australia’s One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson has spoken with former British Prime Minister Liz Truss during a tour of the UK, with the pair arguing that Western politics is increasingly being shaped by a “global movement” pushing an agenda of ideology over governance.
“That’s why I opposed globalisation in 1996 when I saw what was happening,” Hanson said.
“This has been orchestrated, go back and see what happened with COVID in 2019, everyone was on the same page and pushing the same agenda and ... it’s basically controlling countries, ‘we’ll put sanctions on you'.
“This whole climate change [agenda] has actually destroyed nations. Our sovereign capability, our industries our manufacturing, prosperity and then on top of that the borders have bene opened up.”
Hanson said Australia was buckling under the pressure of one new arrival every 59 seconds, affecting housing affordability, infrastructure, health and even roads.
Truss said the 1990s was when things started to get worse in the UK, when legislation started to divert powers away from elected officials and towards government bureaucrats—something she believed had been happening in other western nations, including the United States.
Hanson said she was tipped off in the 1990s by the arrival of political correctness.
That year, the One Nation leader won the federal seat of Oxley just weeks after being disendorsed by the Liberal Party.
Hanson won with a 19.3 percent swing, and called the public support she received “amazing.”
“I had no understanding of politics, I came in straight from my small business, they never expected me to win the seat, and I was disendorsed through the Liberal party because they thought I was a racist calling for equality for all Australians,” she said.
Meanwhile, Truss alleged that many “impartial civil servants” in the UK had been replaced by ideologues.
“What happened in Britain was a whole lot of laws were passed that essentially gave the bureaucrats the power, and when we had a conservative government, our government did not reverse those laws,” she said.
“What I know from being in the system myself is you have to change the people.”
Truss attributed the change to “a cabal of human rights lawyers,” including former Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Keir Starmer, who she said put the current system in place and argued it needed to be amended through legislation.
She also drew a distinction between the ideological struggle involving Western liberal democracies and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and its modern equivalent.
“We’ve got a new battle now in the West, and it’s not the battle that was being fought in the 1980s because we are fighting against a group of people that have infiltrated the system, and that’s a very different fight,” Truss said.
Hanson is in the UK ahead of her appearance at Britain’s first Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) from July 16 to 18.
