USE-less or USE-ful?

Sir, – I see that Declan Ganley and Brendan Simms are now promoting the notion of a United States of Europe (USE) (Home News…

Sir, – I see that Declan Ganley and Brendan Simms are now promoting the notion of a United States of Europe (USE) (Home News, January 9th).

Will EU member states opting out of the Big Thought be referred to as USE-less and will historians refer to the earlier era as “USE-before”, a period that Flann O’Brien might have called a Selby date? – Yours, etc,

PATRICK JUDGE,

Rochestown Avenue,

Dún Laoghaire,

Co Dublin.