Countdown To The EU Referendum: Can The British Government Avoid Brexit?

The countdown begins. Within a month, precisely June 23rd, the British will vote to determine its future within the European Union. This is coming in the midst of doubts of what the outcome of the referendum will be. The uncertainty is already being seen in markets across the globe. It needs to be determined how we all got here, the keys are now offered on a historical query that can trigger a process hitherto unexplored. No nation has ever left the EU block. How then will the block manage if the eventual outcome of the Brexit referendum turns out to be unfavourable to the block?

Who Can Vote in the Referendum?

All British citizens that are 18 years and above, Irish and Commonwealth citizens living in the UK , along with British citizens residing abroad  who have been on the electoral register in the last 15 years. European residents in the UK may not vote.

Can Spain Claim Gibraltar?

Although Gibraltarians are not lovers of the community project, but they are ready to defend themselves so long as it gives them a solution to the difficult relationship they have with Madrid. For this reason, all political parties of the Rock are campaigning within the EU block. According to the treaty of accession of the United Kingdom to the EEC in 1973, the Rock came as a "European territory for whose external relations the UK government is responsible for."

The Spanish has emphasized on several occasions that London does not want to leave the block. Although, according to British newspapers, if that scenario occurs, Madrid could take advantage of it to return to claim sovereignty over the Rock 

What is the Official Position of the British Government?

Given the popularity in recent years, the Eurosceptic UKIP were the ranks 'Tories' which pushed David Cameron to convene the referendum. The 'premier' is campaigning for permanence. But to avoid internal revolt, he was forced to give freedom to his people to defend the position that most convince them. Half of the Conservative MPs, including five ministers, are campaigning for the exit. The most significant case is Boris Johnson. The former mayor of London had always defended the European project, but now advocates leaving the club. According to analysts, more than conviction, by a sheer strategy to prepare his way to party leadership.

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