Life lesson: Think about what you’re going to say before you say it (Picture: BBC)

One thing we can all agree on is that democracy is wonderful, whatever your political views.

But sometimes we are reminded why asking the general public to make such important decisions is risky, at best.

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Enter this man, known only as Adam, who gave an instantly legendary interview on the BBC’s Victoria Live programme this morning.

Speaking live from Manchester in the wake of Britain voting to Leave the EU, Leave voter Adam told Victoria Derbyshire he is ‘worried’ because he thought Remain would win.


Just to be clear here, this man had as much say in the referendum as you and everyone else who cast a vote.

Adam didn’t think it would actually happen. It did. Now he’s worried. Don’t be like Adam (Picture: BBC)

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This is what he said.

I’m a bit shocked to be honest. I’m shocked that we actually have voted to Leave, I didn’t think that was going to happen. My vote, I didn’t think was going to matter too much because I thought we were just going to Remain, and the David Cameron resignation has blown me away to be honest. I think the period of uncertainty that we’re going to have for the next couple of months, that’s just been magnified now. So yeah, quite worried.



The footage quickly became a discussion point on Twitter.

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Bizarrely, Adam doesn’t seem to be the only Leaver that appears to have regretted their decision.

@verityharding @SusanCarland One of my relatives was a leaver and regretted it by 8am. Vote would be very different this afternoon. — Taryn Harding (@TWTaryn) June 24, 2016

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