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Uttar Pradesh will hold elections to the state assemby next year, so abuse between politicians is getting exceedingly crude everyday. What fun! First, a BJP politician, Dayashankar Singh said that Ms Mayawati, Chief of BSP, is worse than a prostitute, for selling election tickets to highest bidders. This naturally caused a huge outcry and Mr Singh was promptly expelled from the party. Rightly so. He will slink back in quietly after all furore has died down. Mr Singh should be censured for disparaging prostitutes who are as much citizens of this country as he is. The BSP has filed a FIR with the police for the abuse. It should have finished here. But this being India party supporters have to prove their absolute devotion to leaders in expectation of a share of the spoils should they manage to win the elections. So BSP workers staged protests and abused Singh's mother, wife and 12 year old daughter in filthy language. Instead of showing her outrage at this abuse of women Ms Mayawati, who just the day before had waxed eloquent about sexism, justified her party goons by saying that this will teach a lesson to Singh. Now Singh's wife has filed a FIR against Mayawati and members of her party. Ms Mayawati is worshipped with garlands of notes by her supporters. While threatening hapless women with violence politicians are very conscious of their own security. One member of parliament filmed his passage from the main gate to inside the building and posted it on Facebook, apparently showing positions of security personnel. At first he tried to brazen it out but has now tendered a written apology to the Speaker. Sadly for him, another MP, who was suspended from the same party last year, has complained that he reeks of alcohol, so that she cannot breathe. India is the only country in the world where state governments love alcohol, because of the revenue it brings, but politicians pretend to hate it because it brings votes from women. Politicians probably get their supplies tax-free from duty free shops or from friendly foreign embassies, but they tax alcohol by several hundred per cent to finance their luxurious lives. A Free Trade Agreement with the European Union cannot be concluded because of the EU demand for lower taxes on wines and spirits. All this time Indian companies were using Britain to get access to the huge EU market but after Brexit the government will need to help our companies. While Delhi is knee deep in water after a short drizzle, giving mosquitoes ample space to breed and spread viruses, Chief Minister Kejriwal is in Gujarat inciting police to revolt against the government. Those living outside India must find it hilarious reading about our politicians but for us who live here life is almost hellish. Helpless, so we laugh.