Milo Yiannopoulos has attacked Britain’s National Union of Students as a “ridiculous anachronism” and a “cancer that deserves to be eradicated”.
The conservative provocateur took aim at the body, fronted by controversial president Malia Bouattia, at a speech in central London last night.
Yiannopoulos said the hard-Left union had abandoned any pretence of respectability and must be “laughed out of existence”.
The NUS – shunned by most students for years – took a further turn on the spiral into irrelevance this spring when Bouattia was elected – sparking an unabating anti-Semitism crisis in the organization.
Its devotion to mindless protest took an incredible turn last week when The Tab revealed that the NUS has spent £60,000 planning a mass protest – without deciding what to protest about.
Yiannopoulos turned to the NUS towards the end of an address to the Young British Heritage Society, during which he predicted a renaissance of on-campus conservatism.
He said: “I hope that this becomes a very successful society.
“It is much-needed in British education. It is very important that British education pulls itself back from the brink and the NUS is laughed out of existence.
“The National Union of Students is a ridiculous anachronism that no longer represents even a slight fraction of the student body, and in many cases it actively works against the interests of most people at university.
“It is a cancer that deserves to be eradicated. And I would love to believe that one day this society will take its place.”
