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Amid austerity and sanctions, people are being forced to steal just to survive, says MICHAEL MEACHER

THE papers are full-on when members or ex-members of the government behave badly when they can't get their way - witness Andrew Mitchell bad-mouthing a policeman, with the toxic "plebs" allegedly added in, because he couldn't ride his bike through the Downing Street gates, and David Mellor ranting at a black cab driver over the best route home to his £8 million pad near Tower Bridge.

But what really matters about members of the government is not their silly misbehaviour, it's the way they're crucifying millions of people even to the point where they're denying them food and shelter.

On this, with a few honourable exceptions, the media are largely silent on the grounds presumably that they don't matter because they're not famous.

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