That’s how Britons describe their attitudes toward the country’s head-spinning political changes, a day after Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister resigned.
“It just feels so confusing,” Louise Barclay, who works in finance, said outside the London Bridge subway station. “We’ve always felt like we had a kind of stable system, and the last few months have been absolutely crazy.”
Many Friday-morning commuters appeared to be grappling with the thought that their political landscape was more shambolic than they had imagined, a little over a month since the death of Britain’s longest-serving monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. And politics aside, they voiced similar concerns about the future.
“We don’t feel that anybody’s actually taking action,” Barclay said. “And we’re getting to winter, and the bills are just going up and up and up.”
Liz Truss’s abrupt resignation Thursday, only six weeks into her term, once again opened the race for someone to lead the country through record inflation, forecasts of a recession, and policy questions about immigration, climate change and the war in Ukraine.
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“It’s a worrying time. They spent the summer going through this campaign of who was going to win, and chaos ensued as soon as she came into office,” said Lucy Waller, who works in event planning and has two children. “And now I worry about what the next few days are going to look like.”
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The British papers blasted Truss’s brief spell in office. “THE WORST PM WE’VE EVER HAD,” one headline screamed.