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"Give them nothing - zero, zilch, nada" was the refrain as I travelled around Spain, striking up conversations about Brexit and the future of Europe.
While I was there, the governments of Spain and the UK signed a deal to protect voting rights of British residents in Spain and Spanish residents in the UK after Brexit. Beyond that, it was hard to find any appetite for easing the path for what they see as UK's baffling track to irrelevance.
One Madrid-based lawyer who travels widely across the continent for work believes British voters made the wrong call, grasping at some fictitious past and failing to grasp the reality and possibilities of modern Europe. "Now," she tells me, " they want concessions out of the rest of us to compensate for their mistake. There's no patience for that".
Others I spoke to pointed to the ongoing dispute over Gibraltar as a reason for their lack of sympathy for Britain's self-inflicted plight. The irony of the insular UK clinging on to the last vestiges of colonialism isn't lost on anyone, nor is the country's double standards when it comes to the free movement of labour.