One Nation, Indeed

I am all for giving subjects of Her Majesty's other Realms and Territories at least the same rights of entrance to and residence in this country as are afforded to EU citizens. But I wonder what Pauline Hanson would make of such a provision, extending as it would to the people of Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Grenada, Jamaica, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu.

Not to say to those of the three inhabited Pacific territories voluntarily dependent on Australia, the one inhabited Pacific territory voluntarily dependent on New Zealand, and the two Pacific states in free association with New Zealand. As well as at least to that Melanesian half of the people of Fiji whose Great Council of Chiefs, which elects the President, continues to acknowledge the Queen as Paramount Chief even though Fiji became a republic following two coups in 1987 (and has not exactly had a happy history since), so that Her Majesty is still depicted on the currency and on the stamps.

And then, of course, there are the British Overseas Territories.

These are the ties that Mrs Hanson, and her new friends in what little remains of the BNP, have in mind. Aren't they? After all, no others really exist.