RE: OptsyPerhaps, but they are politicians, and income trust investors do vote. I think they underestimated the memories of IT investors. Normally a politician shafts a voter and within a year or two that voter tends to forget and move on. Not the case with IT investors and I doubt the Tories expected that. Since they have observed it by now, my guess (and perhaps hope) is that they will leave us alone on this one.
But of course, you may be right. In any event, I don't own any companies because they might get some small, short term tax break. A new law here may affect them for a few weeks, but it will have very little to do with their longer term business models, so in the end, it doesn't really matter.