A ‘pro-Brexit’ group’s attempt to engage its followers with a second referendum poll has hilariously backfired.

Britain Bites Back decided to run a poll on Facebook in response to the Revoke Article 50 petition attracting more than five million signatures.

They purportedly wanted to prove how ‘pointless that petition really is’ and assumed its fan base of supposed Leavers would back them up.

Oh dear, it seems democracy has spoken (Picture: Britain Bites Back / Facebook)

‘If another referendum was held today, how would you vote?’ they wrote.


But it didn’t turn out as planned as thousands of voters said they would now choose to Remain, winning the poll by 90%.

Unfortunately for them, the poll went live on Facebook when a ‘moderator’ was apparently running the page and they had no idea how to delete it.



In their frantic attempt to rouse an admin with enough clearance to remove the poll, they began trying to alert someone called ‘Tegan’ in the comments, rather than directly messaging them, as you do.

‘TEGAN DELETE THIS FFS!!’ they wrote in desperation.

Where are you Tegan!? (Picture: Britain Bites Back / Facebook)

(Picture: Britain Bites Back / Facebook)

That’s when the jokes came flooding in.

‘Quick delete it, this heavily disproves our preconceived notions and we don’t want to look like totally stupid gammons,’ one joked.

Another wrote: ‘You had one job Tegan! One f***ing job.’

Some showed Tegan a bit of solidarity at the difficult time, simply writing: ‘Je suis Tegan.’

It all got so ridiculous that some commenters believe Britain Bites Back is a ‘spoof’ or ‘parody’ account.

Bloody Remainers voting democratically (Picture: Britain Bites Back / Facebook)

Either way, Tegan was nowhere to be found so the flailing ‘moderator’ desperately implored to the thousands of jokers: ‘Leave us in peace. We are a democratic page and demand only fair comments.

‘Please do not join or share our page if you are a hacker.’

But they then decided to give democracy another go, thinking the ‘remoaners’ had left the page for good.

They wrote: ‘As our previous poll was hijacked we have deleted it and will ask for page members ONLY to respond thank you. If there was another national vote which would you choose?’

Well, that settles it (Picture: Facebook)

Well, you can guess what happened next.

Yup, more than one hundred Facebook users flooded the site, which only has 2,800 followers, swinging the vote in favour of Remain once again by 89%.

In the wake of the two disastrous polls, the group said it fired poor ‘Tegan’ from her role as ‘moderator’, but she apparently went on to set up a new page.

‘Tegan now set up another page claiming this one is false,’ an admin wrote in the comments section, along with the page’s ‘ffs’ catchphrase.

‘Je suis Tegan’ (Picture: Facebook)

It seems the page is now doomed for a life of endless trolls.

In a few posts decrying the ‘remoaners’, they wrote: ‘You idiots will realise that democrasy has spoken and there are 17 million of us.

‘We are leaving europe and theres nothing you can do about it lol [SIC].’

They added: ‘We think the snowflakes will get bored and leave us, the ones with our eyes open to the state of Britian to discuss things properly [SIC].’

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