{"id":700580,"date":"2026-07-19T22:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T22:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/700580\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T22:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T22:00:12","slug":"australian-mp-left-fearing-for-england-after-witnessing-rude-awakening-in-multicultural-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/700580\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian MP left ‘fearing for England’ after witnessing ‘rude awakening’ in multicultural London"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Australian MP said she was left “fearing for England” after experiencing a “rude awakening” in multicultural London. <\/p>\n

Pauline Hanson, the leader of right-wing party One Nation, launched a fierce attack over mass immigration, Net Zero and “woke” ideology in the UK during a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The London event has attracted the likes of Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and former Prime Minister Liz Truss, both of whom gave talks at the event.<\/p>\n

But Ms Hanson admitted that she felt she was visiting “another country” and was unable to even believe she was in England while visiting east London.<\/p>\n

The poitician warned that her country was five to 10 years behind the UK in its “decline”, treating Britain as a “crystal ball” for Australia’s future.<\/p>\n

During her speech yesterday, Ms Hanson said: “I went to Tower Hamlets [a multicultural area in east London] just last week.<\/p>\n

“Well, wasn\u2019t that a rude awakening to me! I felt I was in another country. I didn\u2019t believe this was England.”<\/p>\n

She continued: “London? No, thank you. That\u2019s my opinion…<\/p>\n

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Pauline Hanson spoke to crowds at CPAC on Saturday<\/p>\n

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“I see this happening too in some parts of Australia… I fear for England, I really do.<\/p>\n

“You were the crystal ball for me to come over here and see what\u2019s happened here. I believe we\u2019re about five to 10 years behind England.”<\/p>\n

Ms Hanson said people should not apologise “for being white”, adding: “I\u2019m sick of hearing about white privilege. <\/p>\n

“We are all human beings. We must learn from the mistakes of the past, but we don\u2019t repeat that in reverse now, and I see that happening.”<\/p>\n

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Ms Hanson is the leader of One Nation, a right-wing party in Australia<\/p>\n

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Ms Hanson also warned the UK had been “destroyed” by immigration – and her country was next.<\/p>\n

Following a meeting with the MP over the weekend, Mr Farage heaped praise onto the visiting politican. <\/p>\n

“She never goes away, she just keeps on going,” the leader told the Sydney Morning Herald. <\/p>\n

He added that a “political revolution” was taking place in Australia, adding that Ms Hanson was “amazing for what (she’s) done to get to the top of the opinion polls”. <\/p>\n

But Ms Hanson is far from being the only critic of London. <\/p>\n

In fact, Donald Trump has an ongoing feud with the city’s Labour Mayor, Sir Sadiq Khan, over soaring crime rates and a series of personal jibes. <\/p>\n

Last month, the US President told journalists that Sir Sadiq was a “bad person” and a “horrible representative” for Britain. <\/p>\n

But the newly-appointed peer attempted to fight back, adding he was “not quite clear why this man appears to have a crush on me”. <\/p>\n

“You know, all I would say is it could be because I’m the mayor of a progressive, multicultural, liberal, successful city,” Sir Sadiq mused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Australian MP said she was left “fearing for England” after experiencing a “rude awakening” in multicultural London.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35884,428,59,57,58,388,50,229,56,44208,54,55,231],"class_list":["post-700580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-across-the-uk","tag-australia","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-london","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-uk","tag-uk-politics","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}