‘Whispering in his ear’: how Holly Valance became a cheerleader for the radical right

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/15/its-a-holly-party-how-valance-rose-to-become-reform-uk-royalty

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    1. Critical-Engineer81 on

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hyde_Park

      Just look at this development and ask questions.

      The right wing never learn any lessons. Brexit, Brexit party, reform etc are always trying to weaken our country. They hate our country. Look at the disinformation on reddit from dodgy accounts.

    2. hotdog_jones on

      The last time I saw Holly Valance’s name it was 2003 so this feels like a Brass Eye bit.

    3. Cute Flick from Neighbours is now a far right influencer.

      What a dreadful timeline we live in.

    4. Amazing way to stick the landing on this paragraph from her [Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_Valance). 10/10.

      _Asked about her views, she said, “I would say that everyone starts off as a leftie and then wakes up at some point after making money, working, trying to run a business, trying to buy a home then realises what crap ideas they all are, and then you go to the right.” Although Valance has never run a business, she is married to a billionaire property developer._

    5. Zoyd_Pinecone on

      These foreigners coming to our country and importing foreign, American GOP style “culture wars” values to try and disrupt the indigenous political culture. 

       Tisk tisk.  /s

    6. RaymondBumcheese on

      Should be a fairly short article:

      – Married a billionaire 
      – Suddenly became very vocal about ‘her taxes’ going to poor people

    7. Scared-Room-9962 on

      Grifters gonna grift.

      There’s no money in promoting left wing ideas.

      Populism though… Easy market. “it’s so obvious I know all the answers and these guys say what I think”

    8. Scared-Room-9962 on

      We don’t need Jonny foreigner influencing our politics. It’s why we voted leave!!!

    9. Duanedoberman on

      Isn’t she Australian?

      *Bloody foreigners coming over here and thinking they own the place*

      /s

    10. They’re supposedly the “far right” any other time, guess someone doesn’t want Valance suing with her husbands billions.

    11. “I’m a stay-at-home mum with enough food in the fridge and the school fees sorted, and that’s about all I require,” she said.

      Good grief. How cooked that this is the self description, given that she’s married to a billionaire. Holly from the block, apparently

    12. At school in the 90s I thought people were talking about some dude called Oliver Lance off of Neighbours.

    13. Away-Geologist-1842 on

      So typical that she used a Turkish song to solidify her fame and then became right wing.

    14. Critical_Letter9715 on

      Radical right? Hardly. It’s funny because labour is looking more right leaning by the minute

    15. What makes her on ‘radical right’ as to oppose to just someone on the right? Everyone seems to want to paint their political opposition as an extremist.

    16. Relative-Bit-1920 on

      Anybody notice how quickly this went from some soap opera zero to whining about Reform?

    17. wombatking888 on

      Sign pf the times, I hear that Dannii Minogue is standing for the DUP next election, and the Communist Party of Great Britain is now run by a Stalinist clique led by Gina G.