Possible Clues:

• Ineffectual
• Hopeless, lacking purpose
• Reason English won't help?
• European support for common sense is out of the question
• ''___ crying over spilt milk''
• Lacking purpose, but in France we get the point
• Ineffectual Sue on manoeuvres
• Intelligence and energy are ineffective
• 'It's fruitless'
• "It's ___!" (cry of despair)