From: hex@unseen.ac.am 
  
 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. 
  
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