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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 5h

Vets already experience mental health challenges at far higher rates than the general population. As we tackle unfair business practices, we must also support and respect the people who dedicate their lives to caring for our animals.

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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 5h

And it’s devastating for vets too, especially when we have to euthanise animals. Those moments stay with us — we struggle with them long after the surgery lights go out.

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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 5h

It’s heart-breaking to hear of vets and vet nurses facing abuse from angry clients. The vast majority act ethically, work long hours, and always put animal welfare first.

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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 5h

As a vet, I know that individual vets don’t set the prices — corporate owners do. So please, don’t take out frustration on the person in front of you who’s just trying to help your pet.

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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 5h

I’ve long called for an update to the Veterinary Surgeons Act to help achieve this balance — protecting both pet owners and the independent vets who are being squeezed by corporate consolidation.

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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 5h

This inquiry is vital to make sure the big providers are operating transparently — with clear, accessible pricing information — and competing fairly with small independent practices that serve our communities.

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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 5h

Veterinary care is already expensive — there’s no NHS for animals. That’s why I welcome the CMA inquiry into large veterinary businesses which can use their dominant position to raise prices while hiding behind individual vets.

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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 5h

With the cost of living crisis, it can be a real shock for pet owners when they have to take a sick or injured animal — a member of their family — to the vet and face bigger bills than expected.

Dr Danny Chambers working as a vet. He is applying a stethoscope to a dog as a veterinary nurse assists.

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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 5h

As a vet and MP, I’ve seen both sides of this issue — the heartbreak for pet owners facing huge vet bills, and the pressure on vets doing their best within a broken system.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Vets should be made to publish prices, competition watchdog says

Vet prices have risen at nearly twice the rate of inflation, the Competition and Markets Authority found.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 2d

People are waiting years for mental health support but then end up in A&E in crisis.

It’s time we treat mental health as seriously as physical health.

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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 1d

The animation in this BBC feature is so slick — the storytelling and visuals are beautifully done.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

Huge dinosaur trackway uncovered in the UK - BBC News

One of the longest sets of dinosaur footprints in the world has been discovered in a limestone quarry

www.bbc.co.uk

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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 1d

Political parties that deny climate change exists, or seek to weaponise it as a political football, are no friends of farmers. They are paving the way for deeper losses and long-term damage to British farming.

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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 1d

"...genuine grievance with the way the industry has been treated is being exploited by people who are primed and ready to betray farmers once again."

www.farmersguardian.com/blog/4520222...

EXCLUSIVE - Danny Chambers:

Winchester MP Danny Chambers writes on food security, rising production costs, climate change, trade deals which work against farmers, and why agriculture underpins everyday life

www.farmersguardian.com

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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 5d

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the gravest public health threats confronting the world.

AMR will cause 39 million deaths by 2050.

This is a direct threat to the UK that demands urgent action, not short-sighted funding cuts.

substack.com/@dannychambe...

Picture of an E. coli under a microscope

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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 5d

You can find local support with mental health here:
www.winchester.gov.uk/cost-of-livi...

Wellbeing support

If you need someone to talk to about your mental health and wellbeing then please do use the resources below. It's an extremely difficult...

www.winchester.gov.uk

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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 5d

There's really good organisations, locally & nationally, who are there for support. You just need to ask.

On World Mental Health Day, we have to recognise that there's no stigma in having mental health issues and that we need to treat mental health as seriously as we treat physical health.

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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 5d

We've become very good at counting the costs of mental health care, but ignore the huge value it gives us. People deserve access to good mental health services when they need it. I'll keep fighting to protect our services and ensure mental health is treated as seriously as physical health.

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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 5d

It's World Mental Health Day. At a time when our NHS is under threat & struggling to meet demand despite the amazing efforts of staff, it's so easy for politicians to dismiss mental health & cut services even further as part of their "tough choices" for the economy. I reject this way of thinking.

Liberal Democrat Graphic. - World Mental Health Day.

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 6d

There is only one way to make this a proper peace and that is a two state solution.

A Palestinian independent state alongside the state of Israel, where both peoples can live in security and dignity.

@LaylaMoran.bsky.social

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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 6d

Allowing Southern Water to raise bills even further than the 53% they were already given is as disgusting as the sewage they continue to dump in our rivers.
meonvalleytimes.co.uk/further-bill...

Further bill hikes an ‘insult to customers’ says Winchester MP Danny Chambers

Winchester MP Danny Chambers has blasted the latest decision to let Southern Water raise bills even higher, calling it “an insult to customers” and “as disgusting as the sewage they’re dumping in our ...

meonvalleytimes.co.uk

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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 6d

🚨URGENT! On Monday, the Govt could make last minute changes to the Planning Bill, removing protections for national parks like the South Downs. Join my campaign to save nature. Sign the petition and share!. We must force the government to change their mind.

www.winld.org.uk/save-the-sou...

Save The South Downs

www.winld.org.uk

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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 6d

There is plenty more to do to ensure that the risks to our biosecurity are taken seriously, particularly when it comes to the illegal import of animal products - and I will continue to put pressure on the Government to address these threats to public health.

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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 6d

Brucella canis is an infectious disease affecting dogs and, in some cases, humans. Vets have long been calling for more testing, so it's welcome that the Government has announced - dogs commercially imported from Romania must have a negative Brucella canis test result.

www.bva.co.uk/news-and-blo...

Government decision on mandatory testing for Brucella canis vital step forward for animal and public health

Following years of campaigning, BVA has welcomed news that all commercial dog imports from Romania into Great Britain will be required to undergo mandatory pre-import testing for Brucella canis.

www.bva.co.uk

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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks to the Winchester Litter Pickers for inviting me along to help tidy up our streets. They've fostered a fantastic community atmosphere where people can come along to help and meet new people. I really recommend it!

Danny Chambers out litter picking with the Winchester Litter Pickers. Walking alongside one of the litter pickers, he wears a hi-vis jacket, carries a blue bag. They're walking along a pavement down a street.

Group picture in a local park of all the Winchester Litter Pickers. They're wearing their hi-vis jackets. Some are holding their litter grabbers in the air.

Danny Chambers MP alongside two Winchester Litter Pickers walk down the street in commanding fashion, ready to tackle the scourge of street debris that lies before them.

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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 8d

Two years ago, we witnessed the horror of Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel. 1,200 people brutally murdered, 251 people taken hostage. We have since witnessed Netanyahu's disastrous response, leading to 10s of thousands of deaths in Gaza.

Two years ago today, we witnessed the horror of Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel. 1,200 innocent people brutally murdered, 251 people taken hostage, torn from their homes.

Antisemitism is on the rise around the world and here in the UK. My thoughts too are with the victims of the synagogue attack in Manchester - Adrian Daulby, Melvin Cravitz and their families.

I stand in solidarity with British Jews, Jewish communities around the world and the people of Israel against terrorism and antisemitism in all its forms.

For every day since then, we have witnessed Netanyahu's disastrous response, leading to 10s of thousands of deaths of innocent people in Gaza.

Let us hope that recent peace talks will finally see the hostages returned home to their families, an end to the genocide and Hamas out of power in Gaza for good.

Those responsible for terrorism and genocide must be brought to justice so the people of Israel and the people of Gaza can live in peace.

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