Dan is a lobbyist and campaigner for animal welfare who was a Stocksbridge Town Councillor from 2007 to 2011.

Winner of a prestigious UK Political Studies Association award for the best thesis of 2007 for his research into the weakness of Britain’s animal testing regulations.

He is an Honorary Research fellow at Sheffield University’s Politics Department and works with his partner Angela.

Sheffield council and budget cuts

While Labour and the Lib Dems on Sheffield Council fight each other over small differences our city suffers. Green Councillors have offered real alternatives for residents eg :

• Opposition to the Highways PFI on the grounds of it’s huge, rising cost.
• Help for local people most affected by the proposed change to fortnightly bin collections.

Green councillors fought to stop the cuts from government unfairly affecting the most vulnerable. Our council budget for 2012/13 tried to cut backroom functions and the wages of top executives. We wanted to :

• support frontline services like Citizen’s Advice and the Youth Service
• support children, elderly and disabled people
• raise standards in private-rented housing
• stop cuts to teams fighting anti-social behaviour

But we were voted down by Labour and the Lib Dems