Voters will today decide whether the United Kingdom will remain in the European Union or leave the union.

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More than 46 million voters will go to the polls in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, today, June 23, 2016 to decide whether the country will remain as a member of the European Union (EU) or leave the union. BBC reported that the UK public are being asked to choose whether the UK should stay in the European Union or leave in the first vote on the UK's links with Europe for more than 40 years.

During the four-month campaign period leading up to today’s vote,  Prime Minister David Cameron and his team members such as Jeremy Corbyn and Tim Farron  have been  addressing rallies arguing the UK will be better off and safer with a “Remain” vote in today’s poll. BBC reported Prime Minister David Cameron as arguing during a campaign rally in Bristol that the decision taken in the referendum will be irreversible and there will be  no coming back if the UK votes to leave. "You can't jump out the aeroplane and then clamber back through the cockpit hatch," he is quoted as saying.

He said leaving the EU would be a "massive problem" for the UK and doing "untold damage" to economic growth, jobs and family finances and hindering the opportunities and life chances of future generations. He said, "If I had to sum up this entire campaign in a word, it would be that word 'together'. I think together we are better able to face the challenges from terrorism and climate change, we are better able to grow our economies, better able to drive good trade deals... and I want us to get the good deals so we give better chances to everyone in our country."

Proponents of quitting the European Union such as Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage   have been appealing to their own supporters to "believe in our country". Boris Johnson and other Leave campaigners reportedly argues that only a vote to leave the EU could give the UK the freedom it needs to set its own course, rejecting the economic forecasts suggesting the country would face a downturn following Brexit. He argues that, "It's time to have a totally new relationship with our friends and partners across the Channel. It's time to break away from the failing and dysfunctional EU system.”

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