Provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos returned to Britain last night promising to sow the seeds of an on-campus conservative renaissance to rival that in the US.
Yiannopoulos – fresh back from the first leg of his “Dangerous Faggot” tour of American campuses – said that he’s seen a new counter-culture emerge across the Atlantic, which he wants to spread.
Addressing a crowd of some 400 attendees in Holborn, central London, Yiannopoulos said: “I’ve probably been on more American campuses than anyone else.
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“And I can tell you, something interesting and exciting is happening, and I’m happy to take almost all the credit for it.
“For decades it was sort of embarrassing to admit you were a conservative, or a libertarian. It was one of those things you had to say quietly, or people would pick it up because you were wearing a bow tie and look like a dick.
“But something a bit weird’s happening. At the very height of the social justice craze in America, the moment where everyone’s expected to be a sort of black supremacist, lesbianic man-hating feminist horror-show – or you’re a bigot! – there’s a sort of movement emerging.”
Yiannopoulos – sporting an even more outlandish hairdo than usual and dressed in messianic white – received a rapturous reception from the crowd, the first meeting of the Young British Heritage Society.
The gathering – mainly students at university, or even still in school – seemed to bear out his hypothesis that his ideas have an audience in Britain comparable to those which have seen his well-attended and controversial talks make the headlines in the United States.
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He told the crowd: “What I want to do this evening is inspire you, tell you what’s happening in America and how you can make it happen here. It seems to me that until relatively recently when conservatives said it was a cool thing to be a conservative, the appropriate thing was to cringe – because of course it wasn’t.
“But it is becoming that. If you want to annoy the establishment, to irritate the powers that be, what better way than wearing a Make America Great Again hat – or voting to leave the European Union.”
Yiannopoulos predicted a grim future for the British campus, of increasing controls on speakers, no-platforming and bans – but said his ideas would eventually prevail.
He concluded: “The facts are no longer on the Left’s side – nor is the fun. So have fun, tell the truth – never stop laughing at these people. These people deserve to be laughed at, they deserve to be ridiculed off their pedestals because they are preposterous.
“And the values that will serve you best – which Americans don’t have – are British values, and they are conviction, bravery, camaraderie, critical thinking – and pride.”
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