Not Many Now, Not Long Now

According to the latest figures from our friends the bean-counters over at the INE, there are now just 236,669 Britons on the 'padrón' here in Spain. That's a 10% drop from this time last year. Are we dying... leaving... getting Spanish nationality? Were we ever registered? Does the British consul, the embassy and the media know? How accurate are these figures (with the crafty ones careful to not contribute to this fine country in any way, and certainly to not even register their presence here)? With such a low number of Brits apparently here, the Spanish government is not going to be too worried about us post-Brexit, now are they!