Walaa's Weekly Wrap-Up ~ July 6, 2013

Hurrah! Summer is finally here!

Andy Murray is through to his second Wimbledon final. Both Nicaragua and Venezuela offered Edward Snowden asylum. Egypt’s military overthrow their first democratically elected president and Labour fell out with their paymasters, the Unions, over the selection of candidates.

And on Friday we were given a lesson on how politicians can openly disagree with a bill they actually support and not stop it passing to the second stage. James Wharton’s European Union referendum bill received 304 votes for and none against and will now be given its second reading.

If Labour and the LibDem intended to belittle the bill by abstaining, it didn’t come across that way.

The website’s traffic was very good this week, many thanks to all visitors, readers liked posts in this order;

• So MPs will get a £10,000 pay rise, not a good idea.
• It took Egypt 60 years to form a democratically elected government and one to dissolve it
• It’s the wrong time for the Mandelas to negatively hog the limelight.