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Billy Goat Sverige
10-18-2018, 12:08 PM
government (and don’t look like having one for another four weeks at the earliest) :-| Somehow we’re in limbo despite 60% of the population voting for centre-right politics. Coalitions are ****.
Sir C
10-18-2018, 12:11 PM
government (and don’t look like having one for another four weeks at the earliest) :-| Somehow we’re in limbo despite 60% of the population voting for centre-right politics. Coalitions are ****.

Those whacky Swedes, eh? Didn't Belgium go several months without a government a few years ago? Apparently no one really noticed a difference.
Billy Goat Sverige
10-18-2018, 12:17 PM
Those whacky Swedes, eh? Didn't Belgium go several months without a government a few years ago? Apparently no one really noticed a difference.

Didn’t Merkel have something similar recently trying to get together a government? Any way as you say, WE don’t notice much difference.
IUFG
10-18-2018, 01:04 PM
Those whacky Swedes, eh? Didn't Belgium go several months without a government a few years ago? Apparently no one really noticed a difference.

541 days, sc.
Sir C
10-18-2018, 01:05 PM
541 days, sc.

It was actually two weeks, but, being in Belgium, it felt like 541 days.
Luis Anaconda
10-18-2018, 01:08 PM
Didn’t Merkel have something similar recently trying to get together a government? Any way as you say, WE don’t notice much difference.
Yep - took nearly a year for Merkel to put a coalition together I think. Still, at least she didn't bribe a bunch of religious bigots to prop her up in power, thus giving them huge amounts of money and obscene amount of influence
Sir C
10-18-2018, 01:10 PM
Yep - took nearly a year for Merkel to put a coalition together I think. Still, at least she didn't bribe a bunch of religious bigots to prop her up in power, thus giving them huge amounts of money and obscene amount of influence

They're not religious bigots, they're Huns.
Norn Iron
10-18-2018, 01:32 PM
https://howlonghasnorthernirelandnothadagovernment.com/

640 days for us.
Luis Anaconda
10-18-2018, 01:48 PM
They're not religious bigots, they're Huns.

Correction noted. Tiocfaidh ár lá