Brexit Voter’s Cringeworthy Tweet About His 93-Year-Old Mum Goes Viral

While the UK is deciding upon whether or not it will remain in the European Union during the EU referendum today, there has been an expected barrage of Facebook posts and tweets from either side trying to convince fence-sitters to vote for their particular set of beliefs. However, among these last-minute pleas was one tweet that has captured the attention of the nation (or at least the portion of the nation that uses Twitter), with Keith Adam’s tall tale about his voting experience leading to him being ridiculed across the social networking site.

Keith, who says he “despises the EU and hates politicians with a passion” in his Twitter bio, posted the following tweet on the morning of the EU referendum describing his trip to the potting booth with his 93-year-old mother:

Needless to say, some suspected that he may have been telling a little fib, leading to Keith receiving a reasonable amount of stick from his fellow Twitter users:

Then something miraculous happened. Keith, who had under 900 followers before he posted the tweet, suddenly found his short story garnering a lot of attention on the site. Eventually “93yr Mum” began trending throughout the UK, leading to people making up their own similarly questionable tales regarding their visit to the nation’s polling stations with their pensioner parents.

Despite the swelling amount of jokes being launched in his direction, Keith was adamant that his initial tweet wasn’t a lie, stating that he was going to write a blog post in order to “set out the facts of my Mum voting”. Good luck with that, Keith.