Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

As the High Pay Centre observe, as over 70% of profits are returned to investors as dividends (up from around 50% five years ago), its unsurprising that an HPC survey found a misalignment between what people thought corporations should be focussed on & what they thought firms *were* actually focussed on.

While BCorp incorporations continue to grow, the attack on 'social responsible' business behaviour by the Right is also growing (not least from Trump & his fellow travellers).

#business

The painful truth.

As the Lords start debating the Palestine Action proscription, Peter Hain notes that under this sort of suppression of protest, groups from the anti-apartheid campaigners to the Suffragettes would all have been suppressed.

Its a sad day for democracy when we are now hoping that an unelected second chamber will save us from the machinations of our representatives, all of whom bar 26 voted against democracy!

#democracy #PalestineAction #politics

h/t Guardian

As expected, MPs have this evening voted to proscribe Palestine Action, with only 26 MPs voting against this attack on the democratic right to protest.

The state has reserved to itself the power to decide what is 'legitimate' protest & render other (non-violent) protests as 'terrorism'.

This is a grave day from democracy & the right to protest;

normally I don't like talk of a 'slippery slope' or 'a thin end of a wedge' but this feels like a step change in the attack on protest!

#politics