‘I feel sorry for them’: how the mood among British voters is seen around Europe

Correspondents covering the UK election find Brexit amnesia bemusing, Nigel Farage's return surreal and the sense of public disillusionment overwhelming

For a German audience currently staring with disbelief at an upsurge of far-right populism on its own doorstep, the British elections are mostly a reminder of where the destructive cluelessness of populist politicians can lead a country. Nothing you want to look at too closely, when you are potentially just at the beginning of such a turn of events yourself.

Annette Dittert is the senior UK correspondent for ARD German TV