because Gib is, in effect, a city state it relies on a Spanish hinterland to grow the food it buys. when Spain plays silly buggers on the border it does so knowing that food will, literally, rot in the lorries sat for 9 hours at the border crossing.
it has a similar effect on workers - lots of Gibs work in southern Spain, having those people spend 18 hours a day at a border crossing means they can't work.
the EU, to a very large extent, kept the Spanish from buggering around on an internal EU border. if however that border is an External border the Spanish can do what they like. the Gibs know that, so they voted to remain to keep the border open, and to have a higher, very powerful court/authority to appeal to when the Spanish start arsing around.
there is a possible solution - in 1985 Greenland, a constituant member of the Kingdom of Denmark, left the EU after a referendum, but it stayed as a member of the Kingdom of Denmark, and the rest of the Kingdom of Denmark remained in the EU...
the problem however is that Spain would have to agree. which poses an, err... obsticle.
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