‘I’m not your enemy’: Pauline Hanson hits back at Angus Taylor in video from London
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Pauline Hanson has issued a video statement urging Opposition Leader Angus Taylor to work with her after he made his strongest rebuke of One Nation to date.
Speaking from London, the One Nation leader said she was disappointed that Taylor criticised her emerging minor party in his speech on Thursday afternoon.
Pauline Hanson has issued a video statement urging Opposition Leader Angus Taylor to work with her. Pauline Hanson
“Angus, I’m not your enemy. We both need to get rid of the Labor,” she said.
Hanson is in London to meet with far-right conservatives Nigel Farage, who is embroiled in a $1.9 million donation scandal, and podcaster Tommy Robinson, who led to Karl Stefanovic’s departure from Nine.
Taylor made a clear shift away from One Nation in his speech on Thursday after previously leaving the door open to working with the party to oust Labor at the next federal election.
He said an eternity of pain would follow a One Nation government and gave three reasons why undecided voters should reconsider supporting Hanson’s party.
“First, One Nation is a column of smoke,” he told the Sydney Institute.
“Long on rhetoric but short on substance, One Nation’s offering is a random grab bag of poorly defined, contradictory, and constantly changing positions that leave no clear sense of who they are or what they stand for.
“Second, One Nation does not have the team needed to meet the challenges Australia faces.
“Third, One Nation would send us broke.”
Opposition Leader Angus Taylor makes a speech at the Sydney Institute on Thursday. Sky
Hanson, in her video, hit back at Taylor as she called on him to work with her.
“You picked up and said a lot of One Nation’s policies, so I don’t agree with you having a go at me and what I stand for,” she said.
“The people of Australia are crying out for change. Listen to the people, Angus, and work with me.
“Stop denigrating One Nation and work together.”
The back-and-forth continued on Friday when Taylor reiterated that One Nation cannot provide a solution to the country’s problems.
“This is a great country, but we do need serious change, and that’s what we are offering, and One Nation isn’t,” he told the ABC.
When asked whether he would consider working with One Nation, Taylor said it is not his plan and he would want the Coalition to govern in their own right.
“Our plan is to get rid of a rotten Labor Government that is leading this country in the wrong direction,” he said.
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