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A heated row has broken out over a move by Britain's largest bakery chain to launch a vegan sausage roll.

The pastry, which is filled with a meat substitute and encased in 96 pastry layers, is available in 950 Greggs stores across the country.

It was promised after 20,000 people signed a petition calling for the snack to be launched to accommodate plant-based diet eaters.


But the vegan sausage roll's launch has been greeted by a mixed reaction: Some consumers welcomed it, while others voiced their objections.

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Cook and food poverty campaigner Jack Monroe declared she was "frantically googling to see what time my nearest opens tomorrow morning because I will be outside".

While TV writer Brydie Lee-Kennedy called herself "very pro the Greggs vegan sausage roll because anything that wrenches veganism back from the 'clean eating' wellness folk is a good thing".

One Twitter user wrote that finding vegan sausage rolls missing from a store in Corby had "ruined my morning".

Another said: "My son is allergic to dairy products which means I can't really go to Greggs when he's with me. Now I can. Thank you vegans."

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TV presenter Piers Morgan led the charge of those outraged by the new roll.

"Nobody was waiting for a vegan bloody sausage, you PC-ravaged clowns," he wrote on Twitter.

Mr Morgan later complained at receiving "howling abuse from vegans", adding: "I get it, you're all hangry. I would be too if I only ate plants and gruel."

Another Twitter user said: "I really struggle to believe that 20,000 vegans are that desperate to eat in a Greggs."

"You don't paint a mustach (sic) on the Mona Lisa and you don't mess with the perfect sausage roll," one quipped.

Journalist Nooruddean Choudry suggested Greggs introduce a halal steak bake to "crank the fume levels right up to 11".

The bakery chain told concerned customers that "change is good" and that there would "always be a classic sausage roll".

It comes on the same day McDonald's launched its first vegetarian "Happy Meal", designed for children.

The new dish comes with a "veggie wrap", instead of the usual chicken or beef option.
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It should be noted that Piers Morgan and Greggs share the same PR firm, so I'm thinking this is some serious faux outrage and South Park KKK gambiting here.
 
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I think the Cameron return is a sign Rishi is done with politics. He knows he's losing, now he's looking for work elsewhere which means getting hold of the slimiest Tories imaginable while also spending the remaining time making decisions that benefit some of the most monstrous individuals out there at the expense of the average voter.

Then Kier will make it worse.
 
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Another aspect to consider is that the PM is nearly always succeeded by the Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary, or Chancellor. So Sunak is effectively trying to appoint James Cleverly as his successor by this, which won't go down too well.

He's shit-scared of doing anything involving the culture war (as if it's optional). There will be more talk at the election about trannies than taxes.
 
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Rusty Metal Skull Gun said:
It reminds me most of when Brown brought back Mandelson. That was dumb too.

Is it this? https://archive.is/BqMGg
There's nothing really objectionable in there...
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Yes. That's it. That's the short article / statement that got her fired. I suggest everyone give it a skim so they can see the absolute thin-skinnedness and political cowardice of the current PM.
 
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Overly Serious said:
Yes. That's it. That's the short article / statement that got her fired. I suggest everyone give it a skim so they can see the absolute thin-skinnedness and political cowardice of the current PM.
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I suppose the subtext of such an article by the Home Secretary is "and we need to do something about it". Presumably Sunak didn't want to do anything about it.
 
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Shig O'nella said:
It's kinda the Home Secretary's job to do something about inequitable police actions - seeing as they're her responsibility.
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The hilarious claim they are making is she under mined the police and in doing so made it harder for them to do their work.
You know, after Labour taking a knee for BLM, various scandals including the one with the raped woman involving the police, extensive media coverage that they are refusing to respond to certain crimes and more suddenly her saying that there's a problem, particularly with the perception, is unacceptable.
 
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Another PM is effectively on life support, "he'll be lucky to last til Christmas". Ironically a quote used for Pitt the Younger, one of the most successful PMs in Bri*ish history. now we just have a bunch of deranged mongoloids screaming about the culture war endlessly whilst they try to secure their true goal.

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As for Labour, they aren't winning anytime soon, Starmer may well be in a Doctor Who episode in Cesear's Court. Whilst Angela Rayner is a declawed cat and a mongoloic child at a finger-painting table.
 
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Chaotic Pizzaparty said:
As for Labour, they aren't winning anytime soon, Starmer may well be in a Doctor Who episode in Cesear's Court. Whilst Angela Rayner is a declawed cat and a mongoloic child at a finger-painting table.
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It's whether the Tories lose, rather than Labour winning it. I'm fairly confident Labour will just about squeak in with a minority government, with confidence and supply - if not an outright coalition - from the lib dems and possibly also the SNP, assuming they somehow reverse their current implosion.
 
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What do people here think of the Reform Party? I trust the Farms more than I do any of the main news sources these days. :/
 
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Overly Serious said:
What do people here think of the Reform Party? I trust the Farms more than I do any of the main news sources these days. :/
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I was spooked by their support for House of Lords reform and proportional representation, both of which would be complete cans of worms. Plus Tice seems a complete non-entity - it's like he's keeping the chair warm for Farage.
 
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They are a total non entity, which is a shame really. They could be talking about things people give a damn about like the boats, asylum hotels, CRT in schools or the dire economic situation households are facing.

Instead they have no financial plan and talk about how wonderful fraking is and how badly men like Tice, who has named himself in this, need it. Their conferences, even on their own film releases, are plagued by tin foil hat wearers claiming climate change was invented by [boogeyman] and for more prayer outside abortion clinics. When they can rear their head to complain about CRT or the boats, they propose no realistic solutions.

As much as I can admire a genuine attempt at Reform, they're just not competent and their candidates from what I've seen range from lifelong unemployed in areas they're fielding literally anyone to American style Bible-Believer Theocons.

A vote for Reform is a proxy vote for Labour at this point because traditional tories won't be voting for Rishi, the red wall wins won't like Starmer either but he will have the left vote as much as they whine about him.
 
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Fun note people, when arrests in London were just over 100 and after the EDL lot were largely shut down the met police gave a quote that the vast majority of those arrested were them.

Now we're up to 150 and that same quote is still being used by the news organisations. Despite the fact that almost all the new ones arrested have been the pro-Palestine lot.

No matter how much you hate journalists it's not enough.
 
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teriyakiburns said:
It's whether the Tories lose, rather than Labour winning it. I'm fairly confident Labour will just about squeak in with a minority government, with confidence and supply - if not an outright coalition - from the lib dems and possibly also the SNP, assuming they somehow reverse their current implosion.
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If things keep going as it is I don't see anything less than a firm Labour majority, Starmer would have to pull something truly insane to score an own goal big enough that would tip the scales after having the Tories in power for so long and the revolving door at No.10 last year.
 
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teriyakiburns said:
It's whether the Tories lose, rather than Labour winning it. I'm fairly confident Labour will just about squeak in with a minority government, with confidence and supply - if not an outright coalition - from the lib dems and possibly also the SNP, assuming they somehow reverse their current implosion.
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Scots vote based on the kind of nationalism that would get an Englishman arrested. Of course the SNP remain.
 
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If Humza hasn't managed to scare off the SNP electorate literally nothing on earth will make them go Lab/Lib/Tor. That said I wonder how fast could Alba develop, and how seriously would anyone take them. Maybe not this election cycle, but once the fruits of Humza's reign become more evident that could work for them.

I'm also curious how the unionists in NI might support a minority government, if at all. They surely can't support their natural ally in the Tories with the Windsor agreement in place, but they can't align with freinds of Sinn Fein either.

Wales is...I mean has Wales ever mattered ever politically?
 
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