From: JNugent73@mail.com 
  
 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". 
  
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