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https://news.sky.com/story/row-over-new-greggs-vegan-sausage-rolls-heats-up-11597679

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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#VEGANsausageroll thanks Greggs

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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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The hype got me like #Greggs #Veganuary


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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.

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.

 

[FedPostalService]

Genuinely incredible that Vaughan Gething tried to imply he was getting forced out due to racism when he's probably the most openly corrupt politician in living memory (including a range of Tory Ministers and that Tower Hamlets mayor).

I didn’t mean for you to play the Keith Vaz game but you have just lost the Keith Vaz game.

 

[Fungible penis]

Why would Jersh do this?

https://www.thetimes.com/article/54f35d13-4e98-4466-aaea-a62a542752b4?shareToken=6719e1fc0fd8db7d8685927053a022c4

 

[Howslans]

Nah. The NHS natal care is a complete shitshow. They staffed it with 3rd worlders so it's dropped to that standard. We're about six months out from having voodoo on the wards.

I remember about 15 years ago in a Northern city, they would fill NHS psych wards with African nurses who would openly beat and physically assault patients - because they believed that mental illness was caused by demons that needed to be beaten out of the patients.

 

[Coelacanth]

And of course the super important major issue Labour and Charlie 3 promises, hand on heart and supersized black dildo up their arses, that they'll tackle first is more housing. Definitely the issue the UK is fuming about.

I give the party a year before they fall apart and leave us to clean up their mess.

 

[Trig.Point]

Jo Cox the Labour MP murdered in 2016, was a fairly thoughtful and effective MP, Oxfam was and is a scuzzy organisation but her time working for the organisation saw her involved in some of their rare successes. As an MP she was known for being that rarity, someone that could actually work across party lines and achieve policy change while in opposition.

Where her judgement did fail was in marrying Jo Cox,one of a host of Alistair Campbell clones, that Gordon Brown allowed to operate around him. Arrogant, poor media presence, and apparently unliked by most people in the party that knew him, he never got selected as a Labour candidate but rode to prominence on his wifes coat tails, something that became easier for him after she was murdered.

He founded Hope Not Hate, which is a money making racket that is essentially cash for access to Labour politicians, with a sideline in reporting people to the police for wrong think.

Well he's back in the news again. He has a schtick where here he goes on news programs and announces how 'he knows' Jo would feel about an issue.



This got a bit of push back... a bit of 'hate'. So he's gone quite.

People are also digging up the fact that the sexual assault allegations from 2015 (from his time at save the children), that were terminated after he agreed to resign the leadership of Hope Not Hate, should perhaps be revisited seeing as how he retook control of the organisation and more imortantly the purse string a couple of years later.

 

[Kier Starmer]

The fuck...

Yes housing is the biggest issue, not the issue of 18% of the UK being over 65 (10 million), what happens to the millions of homes then? A home up the road from me is empty because the elderly parents have to go into care and its a 3 bed attached going for £350,000. I bump into the daughter now and then and ask how's the sale going amongst other things and she is thinking she will have to go down to 200k cash sale in order to sell. The buying market is dead and this is a respectful area with amazing schools etc. These fuckers live in delulu land. So one of the UK's largest exports is professionals as in doctors, engineers etc, if they are leaving your country permanently then do you not think the issue is the state of it.

The problem is the systems we have in place that they are outdated and unfit.

 

[teriyakiburns]

The problem is the systems we have in place that they are outdated and unfit.

The requirement to run searches for every single sale, at great expense to everyone involved, is one of the worst parts of this. All the information is available and most of it hasn't changed in the last decade, so why does someone need to be paid a small fortune to say that yes, there is still a mine under there and no, there's no chance of flooding. It takes weeks just to go through this process, and even longer now that everyone has realised they can use the rona shit as an excuse to be lazy about everything. It took me over two months to buy my current house, from accepted offer to handing over keys. I had the mortgage offer, a deposit in hand, the agents picking out the new car they'd buy with their cut, and the seller was practically begging to give me the keys, but the conveyancers kept delaying and delaying and delaying. For no reason other than because they could.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

This got a bit of push back... a bit of 'hate'. So he's gone quite.

He seems to be chatting away quite happily on Twitter and the news is pushing a lot of stuff around Jo Cox's sister, likely to push his shitty remarks further back.

 

[Chaos Theorist]

So lads PALS finally got back to us with a letter from the head matron at my local hospital. Getting them to put their findings down in writing rather than orally was a chore all in its own right because that means we have physical evidence to take things further if needs be.

It basically read: "We investigated ourselves and found ourselves completely innocent. No we will not elaborate. Hope this answer satisfies you."

Fuck the NHS. I'm dreading what it's going to look like a year from now when Labour finally chimps out and falls apart.

The Tories gutted the NHS like a fish for the last 14 years

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

The kings Speech

• A Planning and Infrastructure Bill will streamline the process for approving critical infrastructure, and overhaul rules on the compulsory purchase of land
• A Renters' Rights Bill, will ban so-called no fault evictions and extend a series of building safety rules for social tenants, known as Awaab's Law, to private renters
• A draft Leasehold and Commonhold Reform Bill will curb ground rent for existing leaseholders, and ban forfeiture - where leaseholders are threatened with losing their home - over small unpaid debts

Energy and infrastructure​

• A new state-owned energy investment and generation company, GB Energy, will be created by the Great British Energy Bill
• A National Wealth Fund Bill will set up a new fund to invest £7.3bn over five years in infrastructure and green industry
• A Water (Special Measures) Bill will make the bosses of private water companies personally liable for lawbreaking, and give the water regulator new powers to ban bonuses

Transport​

• A Passenger Railway Services Bill will allow the government to renationalise nearly all passenger rail services, when existing contracts expire
• A new body to oversee track and trains, Great British Railways, will be established by a separate Railways Bill
• A Better Buses Bill will allow a wider range of local leaders to take over responsibility for running bus services
• A High Speed Rail Bill, previously tabled to build the now-scrapped northern leg of the HS2 rail link, will bring in powers to build new rail infrastructure in northern England

Crime and borders​

• A Crime and Policing Bill will give police new powers to tackle antisocial behaviour and make assaulting shopworkers a specific crime
• The Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill, published in draft form by the Tories, will enact Martyn's Law, requiring large venues to put in place procedures to deal with the threat of terrorism
• A new Victims, Courts and Public Protection Bill will introduce new rules requiring offenders to attend sentencing hearings and to strip parental rights from child sex offenders

Migration​

• A Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill will allow police to use counter-terror powers to tackle gangs smuggling migrants into the UK

Employment​

• An Employment Rights Bill will ban the "exploitative" use of zero-hours contracts and introduce various new workers’ rights promised ahead of the election
• A Race Equality Bill will extend the right to make equal pay claims under the Equality Act to ethnic minority workers and disabled people, and bring in new pay reporting requirements for bigger firms

Health and education​

Ministers want to ban anyone born after January 2009 from buying cigarettes

• Labour will introduce a gradual ban on smoking by bringing back the Tobacco and Vapes Bill first announced under Rishi Sunak
• A Mental Health Bill will tighten rules on sectioning people, and change the rules on care for people with learning difficulties
• A Children's Wellbeing Bill will force councils in England to maintain registers of children not educated full-time in school, and deliver a manifesto promise for breakfast clubs in all primary schools in England
• The Skills England Bill will set up a new arms-length body of the same name to boost and regionalise training
• A draft Conversion Practices Bill will introduce new restrictions on "abusive" practices intended to change people's sexual orientation or gender identity

Technology​

• A Digital Information and Smart Data Bill will allow people to use digital ID to buy age-restricted products and for things like pre-employment checks
• A Cyber Security and Resilience Bill will set out new rules designed to protect critical infrastructure from attackers

Constitutional measures​

• An English Devolution Bill will streamline the process to transfer more powers to elected mayors in combined council areas
• A new bill will phase out the remaining hereditary peers sitting in the House of Lords
• A separate bill will prolong measures designed to boost the number of female bishops in the House of Lords that are due to expire next year
• An as-yet unnamed bill will deliver a pledge for a ‘Hillsborough law’, in the wake of the football stadium disaster, to place a legal duty of candour on public servants

Tax and spending​

• A Budget Responsibility Bill will ensure official forecasts have to take place ahead of Budgets
• A Pension Schemes Bill will introduce new rules and requirements for private-sector pension schemes
• A bill will allow the Crown Estate to borrow from the government to invest in new infrastructure projects, an idea suggested under the previous Conservative administration

Other bills​

• Another law halted because of the election, the Football Governance Bill, will set up a regulator for the top five divisions of men’s football
• There is also a bill to set up an Armed Forces Commissioner, with powers to inspect faulty kit and military accommodation

What wasn’t included?​

• Despite press reports, there was not a specific bill mentioned on regulating artificial intelligence - although the speech said ministers would bring in "appropriate legislation" to regulate the most powerful AI models
• Legislation to scrap the two-child benefit cap introduced in 2016, despite pressure from campaigners
• A bill to reduce the voting age to 16 - but Labour says it is still committed to bringing it in later on
• Legislation to reduce the retirement age in the House of Lords to 80 - with ministers saying the bill to remove hereditary peers would be the "first step in wider reform" of the upper chamber
• No legislation was referenced on social care, amid reports the government is planning a cross-party review on reform options

Online ID and banning fags, what could possibly go wrong?

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

The kings Speech

For those wanting an exact summary of why I compared what's coming to an abusive parent in contrast to a neglectful one this right here says it all.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

For those wanting an exact summary of why I compared what's coming to an abusive parent in contrast to a neglectful one this right here says it all.

I used to be all for nationalisation; rail, energy, phones, water. While in principle I still agree with it, we are so far from a nation that nationalisation is pointless.

A modern-day Britain's version of a nationalised railway is 10 illegal pakistanis raping a child on the carriage while a black guy plays rap at full volume through a Bluetooth speaker.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

I used to be all for nationalisation; rail, energy, phones, water. While in principle I still agree with it, we are so far from a nation that nationalisation is pointless.

Nationalisation is an incredibly hard sell with the current state of the NHS.

If Wes Streeting hauled out the entire NHS upper echelons and hung them high onto gibbets before announcing "the healing can begin" then I would have a smidgeon of hope that they were on the right track for that. Even then though I would want to see results before they got to nationalise anything else.

The majority of the nationalisation plans and a lot of the other stuff instead looks like Sue Iscariot Gray expanding the power of the civil service even further. Which should make any sane human begin Guy Fawkes posting.

 

[Midwit]

I used to be all for nationalisation; rail, energy, phones, water.

The issue is that when something gets nationalised in this country nobody knows what to actually do with it so it gets mismanaged six ways to Sunday until it gets privatised and somehow becomes even worse.

what could possibly go wrong?

The only thing on that list that's worth the data it's stored on is the employee rights bill, everything else is either nanny state nonsense or an excuse to bloat the civil service even further.

 

[Futaba]

The only thing I'm loving from the King's speech is parental rights stripped from pedos. I'm also glad the two child cap is untouched. Everything else is not really inspiring either way.

Surprised that there was nothing about the earnings thresholds for visas which lefties were crying about and are going to increase further soon.

It would be politically savvy to at least pay lipservice to a sustainable immigration policy but I guess they don't even want to pretend.

Also nothing about how they are going to build 1.5 mil houses. You cannot compell the private sector to do this. All the planning deregulation in the world can't counteract the physical reality that you need someone to build them.

My bill proposals:
- national builder boot camps and short courses for the tiktok renovation middle classes
- new prisons for pedos (catchy)
-unrecognise Islam as a religion, fines and deportation for anyone practicing it (inshallah)
- if you do not have autism or ADHD you get a normie tax rebate of 15% as well as a free rail travel

 

[Amin Yasister]

Wow. Archie Battersbee vibes here

 

[FedPostalService]

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Wow. Archie Battersbee vibes here

He’s with with Diana and da angels now xxx

 

[teriyakiburns]

The kings Speech

Half of this is shit the tories were already doing and the rest is shit the tories wanted to do, but hadn't found the time yet. The only clear water between them is anything to do with the Lords. Meanwhile, life is going to get consistently mroe shit for everyone, but we'll be told everything is better now, because the PM is wearing a red flower instead of a blue one.

 

[isalaide]

Children’s Wellbeing Bill

This is actually full of some pretty important stuff, but that's not necessarily obvious.

Remove barriers to opportunities for children by:
- strengthening multi-agency child protection and safeguarding arrangements,
- requiring free breakfast clubs in every primary school, and
- limiting the number of branded items of uniform and PE kits that a school can require.

- Yes, the school must be required to tell social work that a kid hardly shows up and is bruised all over when they do. Poor data sharing is implicated in every single serious case review over a child death that you can name. You can't assess the danger a child is in if you only know half the story.
- Anyone who has any form of objection to giving small hungry children food should be burnt alive, without exception.
- This is one of the ways in which 'academies' ramp up their profits and also gatekeep out (and find reasons to exclude) kids with more difficult financial situations. Most kids in the UK whose parents don't live together have shared custody. That usually means two sets of uniform. In circumstances where both parents are single parenting. It is cuntish beyond belief.
Look at the prices for a random Scottish school (who are not allowed to demand 'branded' pieces be worn but still tell parents this is the 'uniform') here: https://schoolwearmadeeasy.com/collections/bearsden-primary
Those cardigans and fleece sweaters are available in every supermarket for four to five quid. A shitty transfer applied by these bandits puts the price up to fifteen quid. Those polo necks? Three quid in a supermarket. And famously better quality than this shit. This is something that doesn't seem important ont he face of it, but actually will be a big relief to all parents who are a bit strapped for cash.

Improve the education system by:
- creating a duty on local authorities to have and maintain Children Not in School registers, and provide support to home-educating parents,
- providing Ofsted stronger powers to investigate the offence of operating an unregistered independent school,
- enabling serious teacher misconduct to be investigated,
- requiring all schools to cooperate with the local authority on school admissions, SEND inclusion, and place planning,
- requiring all schools to teach the national curriculum,
- ensuring any new teacher entering the classroom has, or is working towards, Qualified Teacher Status, and
- bringing multi academy trusts into the inspection system.

The aims of this legislation aren't being covered much, but this is the anti-madrassa bill. There is a disturbing explosion in the amount of 'home education cooperatives' in the UK and kids being 'home educated'. These kids virtually without exception are Muslim, and in the vast majority are first or second gen immigrants. The 'home education cooperatives' are madrassas. There is no effective oversight of what is being taught to the boys in these places. (Because it's radicalisation. I didn't mention girls because LOL EDUCATING GIRLS amirite Allahu akhbar). Ofsted have shut a few using powers to close unregistered independent schools, but our total fucking lack of home schooling oversight in the UK means that as long as no money is changing hands, those powers don't apply. You just need to tell the local authority "o no I am home schooling" and basically fuck all will happen to check it is happening.
This is bullshit.
It is bullshit because we do not have the ability currently to keep track of whether kids are being home-ed'ed, or if they just don't go to school. This is particularly of concern in relation to Muslim girls, because everyone knows they aren't being taught a fucking thing and aren't even learning English since they are never out in the English-speaking community if they don't attend a real school. The local authority will now be required to check these girls are actually alive and have received any form of education. Since school is our only remaining universal service, it is very easy to disappear your underage, illiterate daughter to Pakistan for 'marriage' or to Africa to get her genitals sliced up without anyone knowing. This is a white people country and the law protects white girls from this kind of outrage. The local authorities will now be forced to make the feeblest attempt to protect brown British girl children from severe abuse too.
The 'teachers' in these schools are barely literate terrorists (Literally, Ofsted found a few known to Prevent and to have left the country for some very sussy times in Syria) haranguing the boys in some combination of Urdu and Arabic. This is why this bill demands they get some sort of fucking qualification.

In addition, the dildo of consequences is not arriving lubed for the 'multi academy trusts' which liberate the taxpayer of their money to produce dogshit results for their pupils. Again, they will be forced to use people who have actually got some sort of teaching qualification, actually get fucking inspected like any real school, and also to stop trying to skim off the brightest and easiest-to-manage kids. (If they actually produced better results, that might be forgiven, but they underachieve even compared to Scumbag High because they are money making businesses and not in any meaningful sense concerned with the attainment of their kids.)
They have also been badly overdue for a reform that takes serious teacher misconduct investigation out of their hands and into the hands of any official regulator.

There are a number of bills on this list of the same design, to stop people generally taking the fucking piss. See also: don't sell fucking vapes to kids in the pound shops; if you run a fucking massive stadium venue you need to have some fucking idea how to secure it from cunts with suicide bombs; Paki landlords will no longer be allowed to force tenants to live in literal Dickensian squalor.

Too many cunts have been taking the absolute piss for too long and they need collars felt.

 

[FedPostalService]

I took my dad out for a few pints last night and holy fuck boomers are based.

My dad and his best mate are old school TDS Labour cattle, but the rest of the guys were full on Reform voters. One was a little too based when he started going on about Tommy Robinson.

Hope lies with the boomers.