Ex-UK PM Cameron says populism cost him his job

That's populism, and not being popular. The two are very different of course

I was right to call the EU referendum
the issue has been poisoning British politics and the Conservative Party for years

"I believe and still believe that the fact that we hadn't had a referendum on this issue for 40 years, despite the fact that the European Union was changing ... was actually beginning to poison British politics - it was certainly poisoning politics in my own party.

"And I think, more broadly people felt 'well, we have been promised referendums and they haven't been delivered' and people were beginning to feel very frustrated about this issue.

"Britain has made its choice - I believe that choice will be carried through.

"I think it is right it is carried through and yes, there will be difficulties along the way because it's a big change, but ultimately it can be made to work."

Ex-PM Cameron has been up spouting forth across the pond at DePauw University on the subject of The Historic Events of 2016 and Where We Go From Here".

Mr Cameron's speaking engagement at Depauw University - his first since he quit as PM in June and resigned as an MP in September - follows a familiar path for ex-UK PMs. Tony Blair gave a speech there in 2008, the year after he resigned as PM, and John Major spoke there in 2001.

Brexit vote and Donald Trump's election in the US are a "movement of unhappiness"

"So far these three events - the Brexit referendum, the election of President Trump, the referendum in Italy - I'm sure people are going to write about this movement of unhappiness and concern about the state of the world."

How 2016 goes down in history "will depend on what political leaders do next,

"If they put their heads in the sand and say: 'Well this will pass and we just carry on the way we are,' then 2016 will be seen as a real watershed.

But if, as I believe will happen, our democracies are flexible enough and our leaders are aware enough, they will correct - 'course correct' as I put it - the problems that they face.

So you will see a greater emphasis on trying to help those who are left behind"

Did Cameron really want to push the EU referendum button as he claims, or was he forced into it by UKIP in order to stand a chance of winning the 2015 election? Discuss.