“Everyone Starts a Leftie Then Goes to the Right When you Grow Up and Realise How Crap All Their Ideas Are”: Holly Valance Comes Out as Conservative as She Declares “There is No Climate Crisis”
Ex-Neighbours star Holly Valance today revealed herself as an avid supporter of conservative politics in a surprise appearance at the PopCon conference, where she denounced the climate crisis as “not a crisis”. The Mail has more.
The 40-year-old, who went on to have a pop career after her stint on the Australian soap opera, attended a central London event to hear from senior Tory MPs.
Valance attended the launch of the ‘Popular Conservatism’ group together with her property tycoon husband Nick Candy.
The couple listened to speeches from ex-Prime Minister Liz Truss, former Business Secretary Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, and leading ‘Red Wall’ MP Lee Anderson.
Speaking after the event, Valance revealed how she was attracted to the Tory Right after shunning “crap ideas” from “Lefties” earlier in her life.
The mother-of-two took a swipe at climate alarmists and revealed her concern about “the way things are going in the country”.
Valance told GB News:
I’m a citizen like everyone else here who’s concerned about the way things are going in the country. Many things worry and bother me with two little children to bring up – what they might inherit. So I want to come and listen to ideas, good ideas.
Everyone starts off as a Leftie and then wakes up at some point after you start either making money, working, trying to run a business, trying to buy a home, and then realise what crap ideas they all are – and then you go to the Right.
The speakers today were fantastic. I thought Liz was actually really, really interesting to listen to. Jacob for PM!
The MP for Ashfield (Lee Anderson) was awesome, love a northerner, straight to the point and very sensible. …
I just think the climate crisis – or lack of – is not a crisis.
The air is better than when I was growing up. It used to stink walking down the street when I was growing up.
Cleaner, cheaper energy is what we need – we’re perfectly able to get it and have it.
But we’re just putting all these restrictions on normal people who are just trying to go about their business and get to work, pick up their children from school, go to the supermarket.
It’s just insanity, it’s like smashing your head up against a wall every day.
Worth reading in full.
Valance, who was once photographed in a communist vest top, has clearly come a long way. I’m sure marrying a billionaire Tory donor may have helped.
The Huffington Post described her “theory” of why people turn to the Right as “truly bizarre”. A powerful rebuttal, no doubt.
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“Everyone starts off as a Leftie . . .”
A lot of us as teens could see quite clearly that Socialism is a crock – and half a century later I’ve had more than enough proof.
I’d not heard of her so I looked her up on Wikipedia which is reasonably OK for basic info on “celebs”. They’ve already added a whole section dedicated to her attendance at this event. I doubt there’s a right wing celeb alive whose right wing views are not recorded on Wikipedia.
Many of us on the left regard climate change as a scam.
The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries, but between authoritarian and libertarians -Orwell
I still can’t get my head round “libertarian socialism” but I’m not that bright
Tony Benn I suppose.
Possibly. I don’t know enough about him. I would hope he’d had condemned the covid scam. I’m not saying that people on the left can’t have sincerely held views about basic freedoms, just that it seems to me that left-wing policies tend to want to erode those freedoms so there is already a conflict. But I guess it depends on your definition of “left”.
The politics of the Left are rooted in empowering the State over the individual, central economic planning and control.
How on Earth can people on the left ‘sincerely’ hold views about basic freedoms, when they believe in and promote ideology and policies to remove them?
“How on Earth can people on the left ‘sincerely’ hold views about basic freedoms, when they believe in and promote ideology and policies to remove them?”
Yes I am still puzzled, yet here is GlassHalfFull, presumably an ardent lockdown sceptic among other things, therefore I am prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt, at least as far as sincerity goes.
George Galloway said Tony Benn was his mentor, yet Galloway was pushing the authoritarian Lockdowns for quite a while, so much so that I stopped following his so have no idea what his views were when it came to the jab rollout.
Years ago, listed in the ingredients for commercial, shop-bought ice creams was ‘non-milk fat’.
The intention was the word ‘milk’ would register and possibly ‘non-fat milk’. Nothing wrong with that – milk in I e cream to be expected. Non-fat milk even ‘healthier’.
However non-milk fat was in fact rendered whale blubber, then once we were required to fret about the fate of whales, vegetable fat. Neither appetising prospects or what you want in your ice cream.
So liberal/social/libertarian democracy and social justice are like ‘non-milk fat’, trying to make us think we are getting something we are not, and instead getting something we consider horrible and off-putting.
“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant, I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished how much he had learned in seven years.”
Attrib to Mark Twain. Whether he said it or not is a matter of dispute. What is indisputable is the message it contains.
This is because you have to have the intellect of a child to fall for socialism, communism, and globalism.
It doesn’t take much brain power to understand and even formulate an objective.
But it takes a little more thought to understand a system.
Once you understand how a particular system works you begin to understand that objectives involve tradeoffs.
Lefties don’unwanted to consider tradeoffs, either because they are to young and dumb to get it or because they are so absorbed in their crusade that they refuse to consider them.
Either way, they are dangerous.
Or the mind of a power hungry tyrant seeking power & control or a grifter looking for government handouts. They fit the bill as well. Western governments have so much money and such poor controls, it is easy to get a small piece for yourself. The waste is prodigious, a small amount will never be missed.
No harm in having the slebs on our side.
Now Holly how about signing up to DS?
You have to be truly dumb to ever accept collectivism, a simple experiment of buying rounds at a bar at 16 made me immediately see the light.
You won’t find an appealing and coherent critique of our reality and a plausible vision of the way out of it from anyone in the political arena.For one thing the way out hasn’t been revealed to us yet completely although it has made an entrance in terms of bringing about a parting of the ways. Like Lao Tse said the worst leaders are feared; almost as bad are those who are loved. The real leaders are completely invisible – they make you feel like you did it yourself. So much so that you may never even notice or acknowledge them
The real time isn’t months away. Obviously we piss about because we feel that our reality isn’t serious. Can you honestly see a non-serious way into the future? And if you can’t then is there any reasin for giving a crap? You either put your heart on the side of reality long ago or you didn’t. That is where I stand.
I am just tryng to keep you alive a little bit younger.
When I was about 14 I used to watch “Question Time” with Robin Day on the BBC. ——It was very easy back then to listen to rants of leftists moaning about injustice and rich people having too much money and feel that they had a point and would it not be better to have fairness and more “equality”. ——–Later on you realise that there is “equality of opportunity” and “equality of outcomes”. ——-The former is the only realistic one and the latter is simply big government communists trying to promise a utopia they cannot deliver, and actually delivering it would be a terrible idea anyway because Central Planning is always an enormous failure and squanders money like it is going out of fashion.
Lots of excoriating comments about her from the Mail Online readership.
As a child, you follow rules.
As an adult, you think.
Holly Valance evidently grew up. Better late than never.
Please note, I am not using “child” and “adult” in the legal senses of those words.
The transition is thus: as a child through teens until work, you are a non-contributing, net recipient of other people’s money, parents, State.
Once in work the balance changes and you become a contributing, net giver of money to others.
Thus focuses the mind.