From Hanson to Howard?

Interesting perspective from Australia on Michael Howard’s campaign against Travellers

Towards the end of her political career Pauline Hanson complained loudly that John Howard and the Liberal Party had stolen her ideas on race and immigration. No doubt Hanson now feels entitled to make the same complaint against Michael Howard, the Conservative Party leader in the UK. Perhaps Hanson’s ideas migrated via Lynton Crosby, Howard’s political advisor and former Australian Liberal Party director. But if so, the Conservative Party has given Hanson’s ideas on race a distinctive European spin.

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