One Nation is so pleased with itself at the moment, the party – which is on the brink of recruiting Barnaby Joyce – is planning to sell a Pauline Hanson-branded sandwich press early next year.

And Hanson’s most important adviser, James Ashby, is so confident with how things are going that he has revealed the party has plans to unveil a second high-profile MP – not Joyce – who will join it as soon as January, with a third high-profile recruit pencilled in for March.

The party has surged in the polls, its primary vote ranging from an already record-high 12 per cent in this masthead’s Resolve Political Monitor to 18 per cent in Newspoll. The key issues it champions, such as concerns over immigration, are front and centre of many voters’ minds.

Joyce is leaning towards joining One Nation but he tells me: “It’s a big decision and I haven’t made a final decision. I’m thinking about it over summer, away from Canberra.”

The sandwich press idea – which is designed to cash in on the viral moment when Hanson cooked a steak in her office for Joyce last week – might sound ridiculous but consider this recollection from Ashby, Hanson’s chief of staff, sometime pilot and political svengali for the past decade. It was nearly 10 years ago that Ashby filmed his boss hauling in a fish while on a boat off the Sunshine Coast.

“This one’s for the girls!” Hanson declared.

Barnaby Joyce and Pauline Hanson talk over a dinner of pasta, salad and steak in Hanson’s office on November 24.

The clip turned into an ironic meme online, circulating on left-leaning social media. Eventually, however, Ashby turned the catchphrase into a pink stubby holder that was sold on the One Nation website. The party has now sold 25,000 of those stubby holders, first at $7........

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