From: hex@unseen.ac.am 
  
 On 21/09/2025 11:18, JNugent wrote: 
 > On 20/09/2025 11:18 PM, Norman Wells wrote: 
 >> On 20/09/2025 21:24, billy bookcase wrote: 
 >>> "Jethro_uk"  wrote in message 
 >>> news:10alrel$3cgj6$9@dont-email.me... 
 >>>> On Fri, 19 Sep 2025 19:54:15 +0100, billy bookcase wrote: 
 >>>> 
 >>>> 
 >>>>> "Norman Wells"  wrote in message 
 >>>>> news:mj5ae7Fh064U1@mid.individual.net... 
 >>>>>> [quoted text muted] 
 >>>>> 
 >>>>> Advertising doesn't necessarily involve commerce. Political 
 >>>>> advertising 
 >>>>> being one obvious example. 
 >>>> 
 >>>> Political advertising is intended both directly and indirectly to raise 
 >>>> revenue. 
 >>> 
 >>> The bulk of political advertising appears in the immediate run up to 
 >>> General 
 >>> Elections; as was also the case with the Brexit Referendum 
 >>> 
 >>> When it might be imagined, that by that stage,€€ it's rather late in 
 >>> the day to be 
 >>> attempting to raise the revenue to pay, for it all. 
 >> 
 >> It is advertising a product, namely the party, which is spending in an 
 >> attempt to buy votes.€€ It's got all the elements of commerce. 
 > 
 > Buying votes is illegal. Even buying a drink for a voter is illegal: 
 > "treating". 
  
 Why then do they do it? 
  
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