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Gerrit Six, a teacher and former journalist posted an ad on ebay.be<\/a> selling a very unusal item: ‘For Sale: Belgium, a Kingdom in three parts … free premium: the king and his court (costs not included).’ The ad was posted in protest at his country\u2019s political crisis. <\/p>\n‘I wanted to attract attention,’ ‘You almost have to throw a rock through a window to get attention for Belgium.’ said Gerrit Six, <\/p>\n
Gerrit, placed the advertisement on Saturday, offering free delivery, but pointing out that the country was coming second-hand and that potential buyers would have to take on over \u00a3153 billion (\u20ac220 billion) in national debt. <\/p>\n
Like many of Belgium’s 10 million citizens, Six is exasperated that the power struggle between the country’s French-speaking and Dutch-speaking political parties has left Belgium in political limbo since June 10 elections. Demands for more autonomy from the Dutch-speaking Flemish are resisted by the French-speaking Walloons, making it impossible to form a government coalition and triggering concern the kingdom is on the verge of a break-up. <\/p>\n
Six decided to vent his frustration through the Internet ad. <\/p>\n
‘My proposal was to make it clear that Belgium was valuable, it’s a masterpiece and we have to keep it,’ he told Associated Press Television News. <\/p>\n
‘It’s my country and I’m taking care of it, and with me are millions of Belgians.’ <\/p>\n
EBay was happy to take Gerrit\u2019s advertisement. <\/p>\n
‘It was a really fun listing made by a Belgian,’ Peter Burin, PR manager of eBay Belgium said. ‘This person, in a very funny way, reminded the Belgians what a great country Belgium actually is and it would be a shame to sell it.’ <\/p>\n
However, the company decided to pull the ad Tuesday after receiving a bid of \u20ac10 million (\u00a36.9 million) <\/p>\n
‘We decided to take it down, just to avoid confusion,’ he told APTN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here\u2019s something which I couldn\u2019t stop laughing at. I mean its little weird and same time makes U laugh. Gerrit Six, a teacher and former journalist posted an ad on ebay.be selling a very unusal item: ‘For Sale: Belgium, a Kingdom in three parts … free premium: the king and his court (costs not included).’ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}