Born in Manila, Philippines. Bio graduate at UP at Los Banos 1989. Medicine graduate at UERMMMC 1993. Presently living and working as a chef in London, UK
East Ham, London
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Melfred Recto Palma retweeted
Labour's Jonathan Reynolds slams Conservative Helen Whately on #BBCQT
"Frankly there's no evidence to suggest that unemployed people spend all their money on fags and booze"
"It's just a way of you saying you don't like poor people"
My view: Whately shakes her head in disagreement, but why else would a party be so cruel to those in need if not because it sees poverty as a moral failure?
There is no evidence that people on unemployment support are frittering it away on “fags and booze”. It is a tired stereotype used to make cuts sound virtuous.
Benefits are already too low for many people to cover food, rent, heating and basic dignity, and as the cost-of-living crisis deepens, those cuts will mean even more hardship.
Is this really the country we want to be: one that
responds to people in need by making them suffer even more?
Melfred Recto Palma retweeted
Donald Trump hates this photo of himself. We definitely shouldn’t make this go viral.
Melfred Recto Palma retweeted
The revelation that Sunak has paid £1M in tax in the last 3 years 0.13% of his £720m wealth.
While the average person has paid about £45k or 14%, 100x as much.
Should open your eyes to just how much and how blatantly the rich dodge tax
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
UK taxes are levied on income and capital gains, not net worth. Sunak paid £1.05m in tax on £4.77m income over three years (effective rate ~22%), not 0.13% of wealth. bbc.com/news/uk-politi… instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/weal…
Melfred Recto Palma retweeted
If @Nigel_Farage loses Clacton, he'll have blown his only chance of being an MP and the protections it may bring. Investigations into his crimes will continue. If he wins, Standards Committee investigation will restart, hastening his prosecution. It's lose-lose for him
Melfred Recto Palma retweeted
Knocking on people’s doors and trying to feed them shit. This chap wasn’t having it 😂🤣👏🏽👏🏽
Soon as they’re scrutinised they fall apart 🙄
Melfred Recto Palma retweeted
Who remembers when Martin Bell successfully stood as an MP to rid us of Neil Hamilton and the sleaze that surrounded him?
Let’s hope that, 30 years later, Count Binface can rid us of Nigel Farage and the far worse sleaze he’s up to his eyeballs in.
Melfred Recto Palma retweeted
So Kemi Bay-denoch thinks Britain's problems go deeper than bus fares and VAT cuts.
Well, she should know.
She was a cabinet minister in the Tory government that wrecked the country.
@KemiBadenoch @Conservatives @MelJStride @griffitha @alexburghart @NJ_Timothy
Melfred Recto Palma retweeted
Britain doesn't need more decisions made in Whitehall.
It needs more power in the hands of people and places that know their communities best.
That's exactly what No 10 North will deliver.
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Melfred Recto Palma retweeted
Reform kept demanding Starmer resigned because he was "the most unpopular" leader ever.
Looks like it's time for Farage to go then now...
Melfred Recto Palma retweeted
Question for the Electoral Commission
- there is a byelection happening in 3 weeks
- should a candidate be platformed by a news Channel in this way
- will GB News offer the same time slot to all 33 other candidates in Clacton
- are rules just ignored because it's Farage (again)
Melfred Recto Palma retweeted
FIFTY MPs resigned from the government of walking scarecrow Boris Johnson in July 2022. The mass exodus cost taxpayers £423,000.
The Tories can piss right off with their grandstanding over the Angela Rayner severance payment.
Melfred Recto Palma retweeted
If you’re just waking up and haven’t caught the news yet…
Reform UK lost two council by-elections to Labour last night in Thurrock.
I know Zia Yusuf and Nigel Farage won’t be tweeting about this one, so just making sure you’re all aware 😂😂😂
Melfred Recto Palma retweeted
I'm not gonna pretend. The answer is yes. It's not a mistake. It's a conscious choice.
Melfred Recto Palma retweeted
🚨When @LeeAndersonMP_ was in government, he said you could feed a family on 30p a day. Now he says families can't manage with an extra £45 in their pockets. Is there a more obnoxious and thick as shit member of parliament?
