Why is David Cameron sticking to the EU line when he doesn't have to?

See transcript from the EU website They can be contacted here: citizen_reply@edcc.ec.europa.eu ------- Forwarded message ------- From: "Europe Direct" To: Cc: Subject: [Case_ID: 0779865 / 3897383] Unemployment in the UK Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 14:39:28 +0100 Dear Simon, Thank you for your message. Please note that Member States are not obliged to follow the Employment Package. The Member State’s policies and reforms are monitored under the European Semester. We have provided you with all the information available on this matter. In line with the code of good administrative behaviour we will now cease correspondence with you on this issue. With kind regards, EUROPE DIRECT Contact Centre http://europa.eu - your shortcut to the EU! Use your power. Choose who's in charge in Europe European Elections 2014. Disclaimer Please note that the information provided by EUROPE DIRECT is not legally binding. We would like to ask you 4 questions about the enquiry that Europe Direct has just answered. The whole survey will take only 3 minutes of your time. -------------------------------------------------- Date: Thursday, 10/04/2014 17:16:00 From: Simon Subject: [Case_ID: 779865 / 3897383] Unemployment in the UK -------------------------------------------------- Good afternoon, Well done for stating the obvious - in that the neither the Employment package or the EU create actual jobs. We can see that every day we live here!! If that is the case, and pretty much everyone I know in this borough is crying out for work, or has work but is working much longer hours for less pay, or reduced hours on minimum wage - what is the point of being in the EU if you are just advisor's on employment to member governments? From where I sit here in Bedfordshire, UK the job growth rate is abysmal. It is is either part-time or minimum wage. What has the EU employment package done to create full time permanent work? Nothing from what I can see here!! The government we have obviously is not implementing the employment package correctly or is not doing it at all? Which is it? And what happens when this occurs? Do they get fined or do their people live in poverty forever whilst they work out how to implement your directives? Are you monitoring what individual countries are doing? In Britain we have not created jobs despite what our government states, I can assure you! Kind regards Simon On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:15:46 +0100, Europe Direct wrote: > Dear Simon, Thank you for your message. Please find below the answer > provided by the relevant within the Directorate-General for Employment, > Social Affairs and Inclusion: “The point is that the Employment package > of > course does not create jobs by itself, nor does the European Union (EU). > The > package recommends what Member States could do (or would be wise to do) > in > order to create jobs, i.e. it sets the conditions for job growth. How to > implement the package and what policies exactly to pursue is a matter for > the Member States, as it depends on the economic and labour market > situation > in that particular Member State." We hope you find this information > useful. > Please contact us again if you have other questions. With kind > regards,EUROPE DIRECT Contact Centrehttp://europa.eu - your shortcut to > the > EU!Use your power. Choose who's in charge in EuropeEuropean Elections > 2014.Disclaimer Please note that the information provided by EUROPE > DIRECT > is not legally binding. > > We would like to ask you 4 questions about the enquiry that Europe Direct > has just answered. The whole survey will take only 3 minutes of your > time. > > -------------------------------------------------- > Date: Sunday, 06/04/2014 12:20:03 > From: Simon > Subject: [Case_ID: 779865 / 5897333] Unemployment in the UK > -------------------------------------------------- > > Good morning, Where is this 'more competitive economy with higher > employment'? If one job applicant is up against 135 other applicants for > one > vacancy how is it your policies are still valid? Nine months on from my > original email the situation is actually DIRE!!! The Employment package > heralded in 2012 is not creating jobs - it is NOT working here! Or have > we > got to wait nearly six years for these policies to actually work? I put > it > to you that the EU has next to no understanding of what the residents it > purports to be representing are going through! What a farce the EU is! > Kind > regards Simon