[jaxie]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

They are in a very similar position in fairness, they voted to remain safe in the knowledge they were part of the EU. That is also of great importance to them, they must be feeling very conflicted.
Of course that has nothing to do with the conditions attached to the agreements signed with Spain concerning the retention of overseas territories, that may be a more complex issue.

The issue is fairly simple. Spain gave the UK Gibraltar as part of a treat 300 years ago. The British settled Gibraltar and the descendants of those settlers run their own territory as a UK protectorate. They are self governing but under umbrella of our protection. They were asked if they wanted to go with Spain or have a shared sovreignity and chose by 99% vote to be British. Spain has no rights to them or their rock.