CUNT OF THE YEAR: Tom Harris MP (Lab) Glasgow South

Oh there are just so many nominations for this one. But Tom Harris wins by a fucking mile. For the simple reason of being so out of touch with working folk who want to earn a crust and for the state to be their for them rather than for the indolent and feckless.

Food bills up, house prices sliding, pay rises below inflation ... but Labour minister says: Stop being so MISERABLE

Transport Minister Tom Harris said that despite the escalating credit crunch,

'our citizens have never been so wealthy'.

And he claimed we were spending money on food and clothes in sums that would have 'made our parents gasp'.

Mr Harris, MP for Glasgow South, declared: 'In our own country today, despite the recent credit squeeze, our citizens have never been so wealthy.

'High-def TVs fly off the shelves at Tesco quicker than they can be imported.

'Whatever the latest technological innovation, most people can treat themselves to it.

'Eating out - a rare treat when I was a child in the Seventies - is as commonplace as going shopping.

And when we do go shopping, whether for groceries or for clothes, we spend money in quantities that would have made our parents gasp.'

There are more two-car homes in Britain today than there are homes without a car at all,' he insisted.

He added: 'We live longer, eat healthier (if we choose), have better access to forms of entertainment never imagined a generation ago (satellite TV, DVD, computer games), the majority of us have fast access to the worldwide web, which we use to enable even more spending and for entertainment. Crime is down.

'So why is everyone so bloody miserable?'

Mr Harris mused that 'crippling levels of cynicism and pessimism' might simply be 'part of the human condition'.

'Were we always like this?' he demanded. 'What happened to that post-war optimism and commitment to common values?

'Are they gone for ever and if so, why? If not, how can we bring them back?'

**Right, so where oh where do I correct Mr Harris?

How about this one: I work some 40+ hours a week Mr Harris, thats to cover my transport, living costs, utility bills, food and most of the stuff that you as an MP can just charge to the proles like my good self.

Oh I also will add that I get not a fucking bean from the state, nothing, sadly I don't live in Merthyr fuckin' Tydfil the land of the sick note where some one in five is on long term sick, neither Mr Harris am I coloured or some form of ethnic minority, disabled in any of its many and fiscally rewarding forms or able to claim for a hoard of feral children.

Although I will say that my partner is out of work and due to some legal quibble where she has been told she has not paid enough stamp, gets not a penny of HM Govt. So guess Mr Harris who has to cover all of the added costs to my weekly bill.

I could be better off Mr Harris, but I choose not to get divorced and free myself of that "burden" - having some morally - yes you might need to look that word up, Mr Harris. I was actually told that should we seperate, we would be better off. Nice to see that Labour look after the working folk Mr Harris.

Hi Def TV's may fly off the shelves Mr Harris, sadly I am one who can not afford to fucking buy one. I worry about paying the rising utility bills.

As for eating out, can't remember the last time I did that. You see that costs money, something that go's on Gordon's stealth taxes.

You say that crippling levels of cynicism and pessimism' might simply be 'part of the human condition, well that is as maybe. What I will say is put yourself in my shoes Mr Harris, try covering everything, wondering what you will have to skip paying in order to eat, why those who choose not to work get more than people like me who support their partner and seek nowt off the state - having had it made plain to them by said state that the only option is to leave their partner for more money.

You said about buying clothes Mr Harris, God I wish. My money go's on such frivolous stuff as food and what with having two mouths to feed and one low income an no help off the uber state I see no prospect of clothes shopping.

Tory Treasury spokesman Philip Hammond said: 'Tom Harris's breathtaking comments raise Labour's arrogance and complacency to a whole new level.

'Like his boss, Gordon Brown, he clearly lives on a different planet from ordinary hard-working families - who are struggling with soaring living costs, stagnant earnings and falling house prices.

'The short answer to Mr Harris's question asking why everyone is so miserable is, "Because we've got Gordon Brown as our Prime Minister".'

Mr Harris's incautious remarks come only a day after Bank of England governor Mervyn King warned families to prepare themselves for 'most difficult economic challenge for two decades'.

Why is everyone so miserable you ask? Well I lack a thick MP's salery for a start(£92,100). I lack your expenses(£153,862 last year), I lack being able to get my utility bills paid graitis at the expense of plebs and proles.

I am Mr Harris so bloody miserable because I am ruled by complete and utter cunts like yourself.

Fuck you Mr Harris,

You are my cunt of the year 2008.

**Update: Mr harris has previous made my cunt list for MP's who signed the 42 days detention. The list of MP's who voted yes to 42 days(the cunt list)

Oh and for the year 2006/07, cunny boy Harris screwed the taxpayers - thats you and me - out of £153,862 in expenses on top of his undeserved salery for doing sod all.

He also voted for covering up MP's expenses Tom Harris MP shows himself up to be a cunt again.

Oh and the authoritarian little fucker also voted for ID cards, which shows the authoritarian little shit to be a total cunt of the first order. Shame on the Rt. Hon Tom Harris MP and cunt.

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