60 years since the Treaty of Rome

[NormanH]

I wonder if it will be celebrated in the UK press with lists of what has been achieved there thanks to the EU, as  this article does for France?

http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/2017/03/24/01003-20170324ARTFIG00314-ces-projets-francais-realises-grace-aux-aides-europeennes.php

Personally I loved the idea in Le Monde that Boris Johnson is the Ubu Roi of Brexit

http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2017/03/21/60-ans-du-traite-de-rome-boris-johnson-ubu-roi-du-brexit_5098470_3214.html

"the central character is notorious for his infantile engagement with

his world. Ubu inhabits a domain of greedy self-gratification".^[7]

Jarry's metaphor for the modern man, he is an antihero — fat, ugly,

vulgar, gluttonous, grandiose, dishonest, stupid, jejune, voracious,

greedy, cruel, cowardly and evil — who grew out of schoolboy legends

about the imaginary life of a hated teacher who had been at one point a

slave on a Turkish galley, at another frozen in ice in Norway and at one more the King of Poland. Ubu Roi follows and explores his political, martial and felonious exploits. There is a particular kind of pleasure for an

audience watching these infantile attacks. Part of the satisfaction

arises from the fact that in the burlesque mode which Jarry invents,

there is no place for consequence. While Ubu may be relentless in his

political aspirations, and brutal in his personal relations, he

apparently has no measurable effect upon those who inhabit the farcical

world which he creates around himself. He thus acts out our most

childish rages and desires, in which we seek to gratify ourselves at all

cost"

[Chancer]

Part of the satisfaction arises from the fact that in the burlesque mode which Jarry invents, there is no place for consequence