text: Australia's 'tiny hearts and balls of steel', it's apparently the perfect combination in dealing with asylum seeker boats, and a policy which could be copied by Britain, according to a British commentator. Controversial The Sun columnist Katie Hopkins has heaped praise on Tony Abbott's government for its success in stopping the boats, which was a key election plank. But her backhanded compliments may not sit well with our policy-makers and social justice groups, in which she claimed Australia's strategy of 'threatening them with violence', was the way forward. 'It's time to get Australian,' she wrote. Scroll down for video . 'Threaten them with violence until they bugger off'. Controversial UK commentator Katie Hopkins has written that Australia's approach of having 'balls of steel and tiny hearts' should be followed as policy by the Brits . 'They (Australians) threaten them with violence until they bugger off, throwing cans of Castlemaine in an Aussie version of sharia stoning' said Katie Hopkins . Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has been 'praised' for leading the charge to stop the boats . 'Their approach to migrant boats is the sort of approach we need in the Med. 'They threaten them with violence until they bugger off, throwing cans of Castlemaine in an Aussie version of sharia stoning.' Her tone has won few friends in Europe and her timing, even less so, slammed as it coincided with the drowning of up to 900 men, women and children on a sunken fishing boat, off Italy. Hopkins went on to write: 'Make no mistake, these migrants are like cockroaches.' 'Australians are like British people but with balls of steel, can-do brains, tiny hearts and whacking great gunships. 'And their approach is working. Migrant boats have halved in number since Prime Minister Tony Abbott got tough.' But her inflammatory remarks has led to an outcry on social media and tens of thousands joining a Change.org campaign to have her removed. A campaign has been launched by the social justice website Change.org to have Katie Hopkins removed by The Sun as a columnist . The backlash against Hopkins' thoughts was immediate with her views slammed in social media . Twitter lit up with commentary on Katie Hopkins' controversial views. She has suggested the UK follow Australia's approach and 'threaten them with violence' Katie Hopkins said: 'And their (Australian) approach is working. Migrant boats have halved in number since Prime Minister Tony Abbott got tough.' Hopkins continued with her comments, saying: 'They might look a bit like 'Bob Geldof's Ethiopia circa 1984', but they are built to survive a nuclear bomb. 'Bring on the gunships, force migrants back to their shores and burn the boats.' She stated that areas of the UK had now become 'festering sores, plagued by swarms of migrants and asylum seekers, shelling out benefits like Monopoly money'. Hopkins stated that areas of the UK had now become 'festering sores, plagued by swarms of migrants and asylum seekers, shelling out benefits like Monopoly money'
target: Australia's 'tiny hearts' approach to stopping the boats should be copied by Britain .
  Controversial columnist Katie Hopkins wrote that Tony Abbott's policy was effective and like 'an Aussie version of sharia stoning'
  'Australians are like British but with balls of steel, can-do brains, tiny hearts and whacking great gunships'
  She calls those on board migrant boats 'cockroaches built to survive a nuclear bomb'
  It came as more than 900 people were feared drowned on a sunken fishing boat headed for Italy .