I am suddenly wondering if we could be so lucky as to find ourselves able to challenge Belgium.

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  1. Stephen Gunnell3 July 2016 at 08:52

    For what? Social division between the Waloons and Flemings?

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  2. Rob Masters3 July 2016 at 09:28

    I was more thinking the record they hold for not having a government in office.

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  3. Andrew “Noisy” Muhling3 July 2016 at 10:40

    oh?  is that what's happened..
    ~goes back to playing trains~

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  4. John Samuel3 July 2016 at 12:05

    Unlikely. I suspect that the lure of ministerial salaries will be a powerful incentive to negotiate a minority government with someone.

    If it's Xenophon we may even get actual gambling reform as part of the deal, which would be nice.

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