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A pro-Brexit group's bid to prove Britain does not want a second referendum has hilariously backfired.

Britain Bites Back ran a poll on Facebook yesterday asking its followers how they would vote in another referendum.

"Let's prove how pointless that petition really is," the group wrote, referring to a call to revoke Article 50 that has amassed nearly six million signatures.

The group appeared to assume that its Leave voting followers would support its claim.

However the poll did not go to plan with 85 per cent of more than 165,000 voters opting to remain.

And the group moderator was unable to delete post despite trying to alert someone named Tegan in the comments.

"TEGAN DELETE THIS!!" they wrote.

People online were quick to mock the mishap as the moderator wrote "how do you delete? Im only a mod not admin!!"

One wrote: "This is gold. The people of Britain were sold a scam and they are smart enough to know they were wrong and want to change their minds. Good for them."

Another said: "Good to see another page supporting the remain campaign."

While one posted: "Superb poll. It takes a brexiter to make such a mess of something."

Despite the calls to Tegan, the poll remained live so the moderator appealed to the thousands of people commenting on the post.

"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."

They then launched a second poll, writing: "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?"

Some 88 per cent voted to "Remain in the EU" prompting further ridicule in the comments.

One person wrote: "A second vote. Surely the first one should have stood?"

Britain Bites Back later posted: "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."