Liverpool's prince of spin returns to contest city council seat
Liverpool's very own 'prince of spin' Daniel Hughes is returning from the capital to contest a seat on the city council.
He has a reputation for running tough campaigns against the Liberal Democrats, and has set his sights on winning Allerton and Hunts Cross, which is currently held by former Lib-Dem deputy leader Flo Clucas.
Labour won a seat in the ward last year with a huge majority of 1,500 votes.
Daniel Hughes, has spent the last 18 months working as a SPAD (special advisor) for Angela Eagle in London.
He will now also be working for Angela's sister Maria, doing communications for the twins.
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LibDems won't know what's hit them in Allerton when Dan gets going.
I'll be proud to go out campaigning for Dan after all the help he gave me and so many others in Liverpool to get elected.
Shame that small minded bigots still exist "Toots". The spite and venom some people like you possess drains the goodness done throughout our great city. Jealousy and bitterness is an ugly trait and can consume individuals. It's sad that you are trying to bring people down who merely want to make a difference. Remember Daniel, make your haters your motivators and always keep your head held high. JB
As much as he may be a good campaigner, I can see the lib dem campaign now. 'Local councillor against a SPAD parachuted in from london'. However he should be able to win the seat.
Perhaps Cllr (T) Morrison should run the campaign. His success and campaign methods are 2nd to no-one in that part of the city.
Nathan - Dan is from Liverpool and has worked in London for a bit. Parachuted?!
Tootes- I am surprised that David has allowed your homophobic comment.
I have been on the door steps in Allerton with Daniel and the residents love him, his work in the area since being selected is second to none.
I will be on the door steps right up to the election supporting Daniel Hughes who will make a brilliant Councillor,and we new Councillors in the Labour party thank Daniel for all the support he gave us when we were up for election.
As for toots and others you are both a disgrace
well said Gerard.
Alls I want to say if Daniel does half the job you have done for us in County he will have no problem.
You have been a breath of fresh air in County.
I would like to wish Daniel good luck and all the Labour Candidates in the forthcomming election
Hate the cowardice of some people who hide behind a false identity to post their poison on here. One thing is for sure ‘Toots’ - you’ve made a lot of us even more determined to get dan elected.
Toots - your scraping the bottom of the barrel there with them comments.
At the end of the day labour are for the people the opposition are for themselves.
You will be laughed out of the count come may.
Take your small mindedness some other place u prat.
Vote Dan Hughes parachuted back to send flo clucas to the dole que. then she will get a taste of what ordinary people feel like under the con-dems
Vote Dan Hughes
Councillors Knight and Woodhouse,
It probably won't take much - but don't think for a moment talent or charm (so lacking for anyone who has ever seen either of you in the chamber, thats for sure) will get Daniel Hughes elected.
In the same way your malign party continually runs away from the financial fauxs it made in national government, and now riding under the crest unpopular decisions made by the Coalition government, perhaps such delights as the Frank Roderick episode will be Daniel Hughes lasting legacy, and not a probable successful election to Allerton & Hunts Cross.
Any other group of people would be ashamed of this young man. Knight and Woodhouse, you are disgusting, and lets hope you face similair treatment one day, as Frank did.
Still, nice to know what traits are considered as admirable in the politics of spite and envy the Liverpool Labour party preens itself on.
Let’s hope the police find the person responsible for the homophobic attack posted on here. I thought we’d moved on from this sort of attitude. Its 2012 not 1912!
Served Cold do you live in the real world a Councillors work load is not around all that goes on in the Town Hall Idiot.
You come up to County and see Cllr Woodhouse at Public meetings he must call at least one every month and they are well attended also look in the Council Website he was a member who atteded every meeting he had to attend and was in the top 2 last year he has again never missed a meeing and leads in attending the most committees this year.
You want to look at the other Councillors attendance MF attended one meeting still claims expences, go and look at your own friends before you call a hard working Councillor, lets hope the police do get called in.
AND YES YOU ARE COLD AS ICE and living in a dream world
@ served cold
Your obviously not a supporter of the Liverpool labour party.
Poor frank done too little for too long. He just reeped the benefits
Back to the drawing board for him
Give him our regards
So the homophobic comments have been allowed to stand, despite lots of complaints to the Echo and Post by a number of people, not just me (directly and indirectly in my case).
So what is our next step David? How do we get them removed from this blog which stands in your name? Do we have to contact the SIGMA team? And why has your colleague to whom complaints are made, via a link marked "report this comment", failed to respond to a single one of my "clicks" on this post?
Are you the responsible news outlet you claim to be? I look forward to your answers in due course - but don't leave it too long, otherwise I will laboriously have to do something about it, and I really would prefer if you could resolve it without my having to resort to that.
Apologies to anyone offended by the comments reamining on here for so long. We have only just become aware of the comments and have removed them. We do not condone homophobic, racist, or any other type of discrimination. We don't moderate comments ahead of posting and our reporting function seems to have fallen down. We are now trying to rectify the situation.
Thanks David, I appreciate that.
Can you please let me know about the revised reporting function in due course, given that the existing one obviously failed on this occasion.
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