Glasgow South MP Tom Harris made the comment on his website.
His blog said British people "have never been so wealthy".
Opposition politicians said he was out of touch.
Yesterday, Harris apologised for any offence but added: "What I'm saying is everyone is unhappy and it doesn't make any difference how much money they have."
Mr Harris himself supplied no answers to his controversial question, and instead invited readers to respond.The minister later added a fresh post to the blog, claiming that his comments had been made public by Philip Hammond, the shadow chief secretary to the Treasury. He added: "Seems a shame if ministers and MPs can't provoke a debate about serious subjects without having some headline-chaser making capital out of it."
He now is suggesting that his comments have been misinterpreted (perish the thought).The mail said this: Daily Mail
Though only a pipsqueak junior minister, he enjoys a salary of £92,100. On top of that, he claimed £153,862 in expenses last year. So he is comfortably insulated from the problems that beset most voters.
And there's the rub. Mr Harris may have apologised, but wasn't his clodhopping intervention another example of the chasm between rulers and the ruled?
The Mirror runs with this:The Mirror
The minister who told Britain to cheer up apologised yesterday, insisting he appreciated times were tough.An on his salary I am sure he really does understand our pain!
This BBC site has a pop at Tom cunt Harris: Tom Harris is a cunt.
That Tom Harris MP has got a bleeding nerve wondering why we're all so "bloody miserable".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)
Rising fuel and food prices, the credit squeeze which is gripping us like the hand of Vinnie in the groin of Gazza, a panicky Europe, a pillocky President and the threat of terrorism just around every corner...
And worse than all that, the Germans have made it to the semi-finals. Again.
Oh and for the year 2006/07, cunny boy Harris screwed the taxpayers - that's you and me - out of £153,862 in expenses on top of his undeserved salary 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.
Oh and my previous post where I gave him the "honour" of cunt of the year, the cunt: Tom Harris cunny of the year..
2 people have spoken:
"What I'm saying is everyone is unhappy and it doesn't make any difference how much money they have."
Doesn't that rather undermine the whole of the Labour raison d'etra?
Agreed.
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