One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has joked about “rounding up” Australians who disagree with her politics and sending them to live on an island.The quip came during the latest stop on Ms Hanson’s tour of the United Kingdom, which has seen her embrace several of the country’s far-right voices.The most controversial among them was Tommy Robinson, a fringe anti-Islam activist with a long criminal record. Ms Hanson called him “brave”, among other compliments, and walked the streets of his hometown Luton alongside him.Now she has also sat down for an interview with former British prime minister Liz Truss, who has tacked hard to the right in the years since her chaotic time in the top job.Ms Truss was prime minister from September 6, 2022 until October 25, a period of just 49 days, before she was forced to resign by her own Conservative Party.She currently hosts a podcast called The Liz Truss Show.One of Ms Truss’s fixations is an entity she calls “the blob”. That’s her term for the British public service, as well as some of the country’s institutions, which she believes are slanted to the progressive side of politics and stymie the will and interests of the people.She blames the Bank of England, in large part, for the disastrous end of her career.The theory of the case is that even if a government is brave enough to oppose left-wing ideas like open borders or net zero, “the blob” will sabotage its efforts to make progress.“We’ve got some of them sitting on the floor of parliament,” Ms Hanson said when Ms Truss brought up the blog during their chat.“They’re called the Greenies, and a couple of the independents.“How about we just round them all up and give them an island or somewhere? And say, ‘Here, go and do what you want to do over there. Leave us alone.’”Ms Truss laughed and replied: “Didn’t we try that with Australia in the first place?”Ms Hanson, apart from her media tour is in Britain to attend its iteration of the (originally American) Conservative Political Action Conference, used the interview to repeat her warning from recent weeks that Australia is following Britain into decline.She believes Britain has allowed itself to be overwhelmed by immigrants, and that Islam has too great an influence there.Asked which country was worse off, she replied: “Britain. But we’re not that far behind you.”As the interview turned to One Nation’s policy agenda, Ms Hanson said she wanted a major reduction in the federal bureaucracy.She claimed Australia had 216,000 public servants, including an increase of 50,000 under the current government – those numbers are roughly accurate – and added that One Nation would push for a “big clean-out” if it won government or held the balance of power.“If One Nation does get government or is in a position to have that shared balance of power in either house, yes, we’re going to push for it,” she said.Ms Hanson also ruled out entering a formal Coalition agreement with the Liberals and Nationals, who are currently lagging behind One Nation in the polls.“I have no intentions of forming any coalition with them,” she said.“I am not going to come under that umbrella. I want to remain totally independent.”On immigration, Senator Hanson said she wanted Australia to withdraw from the 1951 UN Refugee Convention, describing it as “out of date”.She said Australia needed to reclaim control over its borders and decide who entered the country without being bound by international agreements.“I’m sorry, I don’t care about those people,” she said of asylum seekers, some of whom she claimed were destroying identification documents before seeking refugee status.Read related topics:Pauline Hanson