Opinion: Make politics fit women’s lives, not vice-versa
For today’s women “motherhood, not sexism, is the issue”. So says The Economist (“We Did It”, 30 December 2009), noting that “women who prosper in high-pressure companies in their 20s drop out in...
View ArticleIn other news… Teather’s non-defection, Mulholland on beer price-fixing &...
Sarah Teather Would Rather ‘Poke Her Eyes Out’ Than Join Labour (Huffington Post) Lib Dem MP Sarah Teather would rather “poke her eyes out” than defect to the Labour Party despite being sacked from the...
View ArticleThis week in Europe… 26-29 November
Lib Dems welcome the launch of free trade negotiations with Japan UK Liberal Democrat MEP Catherine Bearder, the party’s European spokesperson on international trade, today welcomed the Council’s...
View ArticleThis week in Europe: 17-20 December…
EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement signed Catherine Bearder, the Liberal Democrat European spokesperson on international trade, has welcomed the EU trade deal with Singapore as a potential gateway for...
View ArticleLiberal Democrat MEPs lobby for fair distribution of EU funding
Lib Dem MEPs have welcomed the Coalition Government’s commitment to ensure that cuts to European funding from 2014 onwards will be shared in a fair manner across the UK. The Coalition Government has...
View ArticleFinally, the media pick up on Coalition split on offensive poster vans
There’s a big lesson to learn from the offensive poster van fiasco this week. Sometimes we Liberal Democrats, including me, can be quick to feel a dividing line between those inside the Whitehall...
View ArticleOpinion: UKIP are a blessing in disguise for pro-Europeans
Liberal Democrat MEP Catherine Bearder works harder than nine UKIP MEPs put together. She speaks more sense than their entire delegation, of course, but in terms of turning up to vote, it’s official:...
View ArticleIt’s International Day for the elimination of violence against women. Lynne...
Today marks the start of 16 days of action, from today’s International Day for the elimination of violence against women to Human Rights Day on 10th December, when events all over the world will raise...
View ArticleNigel, was there something you forgot to do?
As the net migration figures come out today, Nigel Farage has never been far from a tv camera. He’s been on the BBC News Channel. on the Daily Politics, spreading his ill-informed nonsense that we have...
View ArticleLibLink: Tim Farron: Only way to make blue go green is to add yellow
View image | gettyimages.com Over at PoliticsHome, Tim Farron has been showing up the Tories, who voted in favour of loosening controls on air pollution. Liberal Democrat MEP Catherine Bearder opposed...
View ArticleBearder: Liberals must save the EU-US trade agreement, but we must ditch ISDS...
Writing for politics.co.uk, Lib Dem MEP Catherine Bearder writes a strong defence of the proposed free trade agreement between the US and EU, but takes the view that the now much-maligned Investor...
View ArticleCatherine Bearder MEP doesn’t need men telling her what’s important
View image | gettyimages.com I have to say that I am incandescent with rage at a profile of the only Liberal Democrat MEP Catherine Bearder which has appeared in the New Statesman. The implied...
View ArticleMiriam Gonzalez Durantez argues for quotas on boards – but warns that...
View image | gettyimages.com Remarkably, we’ve seen a consensus between our two leadership candidates that some for of action such as all women shortlists or zipping in list contests, is necessary to...
View ArticleLibLink: Catherine Bearder MEP: Cameron must wake up and join the EU’s...
View image | gettyimages.com Liberal Democrat MEP Catherine Bearder has written for Left Foot Forward to criticise David Cameron’s decision to take Syrian refugees, as long as they aren’t already in...
View ArticleCatherine Bearder to Nigel Lawson: Pulling out of the EU would mean losing...
Liberal Democrat MEP Catherine Bearder has written to the Times (£) to respond to Nigel Lawson’s article which argued that the UK should leave the EU: She wrote: Sir, Lord Lawson’s argument for EU exit...
View ArticleLibLink: Catherine Bearder says that any post-Brexit deal would be tough on...
View image | gettyimages.com Catherine Bearder, our only Lib Dem MEP, has been interviewed about the consequences of Brexit by the EU Observer. She doesn’t think that an arrangement similar to...
View ArticleLibLink: Catherine Bearder: There will be no 12 days of Christmas if we lose...
This year the turtle dove officially became an endangered species. Psssionate conservationist Catherine Bearder MEP, who’s been made the dove’s species champion by the RSPB, has written tot the...
View ArticleBearder calls on Theresa Villiers to quit if she backs Brexit
Lib Dem MEP Catherine Bearder has said that Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers should resign if she wants to campaign for Britain to leave the EU. She joined Northern Irish politicians who...
View ArticleLib Dem Remain campaign to be launched this afternoon
Tim Farron heads to the unlikely environment of a table tennis bar in London to launch the Lib Dems’ In campaign this afternoon. Also speaking will be London Mayoral candidate Caroline Pidgeon and MEP...
View ArticleLibLink: Catherine Bearder: The campaign to keep Britain in Europe must be...
Catherine Bearder has written for the New Statesman’s Staggers blog to castigate both sides of the EU Referendum debate for negativity, citing the example of Scotland: On the one hand, Ukip and the...
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