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Hello and welcome to the Mayday, Mayday edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance news of the week. I'm Felix, Sam, and

I'm joined as ever by Anna Schumansky. Hello. Hi, Anna. And by Jordan Weissman of Slate.

Hello. And I have to say that up until the actual UK election, my general feeling coming into this week was, this is the least

important election of my lifetime. It's not going to make any difference to Brexit. There's

no point in talking about it. The only way we're ever going to talk about it is if there's

something completely insane happens. So I thought to myself, let's talk about Spanish banking

and how, like, there's a huge banking crisis going on in southern Europe.

And let's talk about sexy things like the Qatari royal family paying a billion dollar ransom

and these kind of things.

And then maybe we'll talk about activist investing or something like that.

But no.

But no.

British voters strike again. We are going to talk about the UK election because like that. But no. But no. British voters strike again.

We are going to talk about the UK election because the UK election was bonkers.

So there's a great quote from this Belgian, from this like Eurocrat who got interviewed by the Times.

He was like, I thought the Belgians invented surrealism.

So the Belgians, I mean, this is the wonderful thing, right?

The Belgians really did invent the idea of a country without a government.

They managed to go over a year without having a government not that long ago.

And it is increasingly looking as though the only way that Britain is going to be able to move

forward is by not having a government.

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