>>It's happened.
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>If you only just found out you're probably the last person in the western world to do so :-}
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>Must admit, although things looked tougher than usual, I thought they would still scrape in under the wire......

I think they'll fix this soon enough, or else the people would notice that they don't notice much difference between functional and non-functional government...

Look at Italy - during the 2nd half of the XX century, they had an average of one month a year without a government. Nobody remembers those months as different from others.