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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.

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.
 
The whole leadership of Reform's Isle of Wight branch have resigned, led by one of last year's GE candidates for the island.


The Great Yarmouth branch has gone a step further and has dissolved itself in protest at the party's treatment of their MP.


Meanwhile, someone leaked Farage's WhatsApps to the BBC, which prove that Lowe's excommunication was driven entirely by Farage throwing a tantrum after the Daily Mail interview.

The leak itself also proves that someone still in Reform's inner circle is less than happy with the current state of affairs.

 
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Andrew Bridgen MP just soft confirmed he and Lowe are intending to collaborate on a political party 'if Musk will back it'. [Source]


Time has come, I'm making a Happenings thread, please feel free to DM me with anything you think should be included. The original zoomer fan video made for Rupert Lowe is top priority if anyone has it.
 
Andrew Bridgen MP just soft confirmed he and Lowe are intending to collaborate on a political party 'if Musk will back it'.
They should approach the others Farage has driven out. Richard North should be at the top of that list. He was a very early victim of Farage's egomania.
 
The only issue with those like Richard North (and his brother(?) Pete) is that after their experiences they are very distrusting of anyone who didn't suss Farage out ASAP, which will include Rupert and most anyone who joined the Brexit Party or Reform. Pete is openly a member of Homeland, and lots of others who were burned by Farage are as well. I don't think they will attack a Lowe party so long as it doesn't punch right like Farage does, but they won't join or work with it either.
 
Andrew Bridgen MP just soft confirmed he and Lowe are intending to collaborate on a political party 'if Musk will back it'. [Source]
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They should just join Homeland.
 
Honestly, Homeland should just join them, Lowe is a powerhouse, and if everything goes in his favor the trappings to be a great leader. I can see Musk doing it too he hates Starmer because I think as a South African he understands what people like Starmer want to do, use the whites for wealth generation, and then all the Muzzies are off all day raping.

Even though it is the Express

Looks like Starmer is terrified of the good weather coming. Also, the stories of rebellion keep coming and the Council tax hikes are not going to help. I should not joke about abuse but Victoria Starmer must be parkouring like fuck around Number 10 dodging her abusive "husband".
 
I should not joke about abuse but Victoria Starmer must be parkouring like fuck around Number 10 dodging her abusive "husband".
Please, he's too busy slapping around those who voted him in to harm his own family.

I said back when the election happened that Labour were going to treat the UK like an abuser who just got their victim back. As it happens I massively undersold the degree to which they would do so but I stand by my assessment of the Tories as a neglectful parent and Labour as an abusive one.
 
Bad Lads Army ages like a fine wine every year.
The main problem is Capita and how fucked recruitment is. People act like basic training is like full metal jacket where you get screamed at all the time. Directing Staff do genuinely give a shit about the recruits under their care and unironically I think that the army can provide what a lot of lads are missing in this day and age, self discipline and camaraderie. They might only do four years but it can set them in good stead for the rest of their life.
That's a very generous deptiction of the typical DS. Who for phase 1 recruits is usually some Cpl whose unit could do without them. With the infantry they're often not even Cpl, they're L/Cpl who get a temporary 2nd tape.

Phase 1 training in the British Army is different from other militaries because they try to jam so much into it. Every hour of every day is accounted for, and their simply isn't time to have some moving moment where a shitbag learns the error of his ways. If the troop staff think a recruit isn't worth the time and isn't going to pass out, he'll be encouraged to 'leave'. Not many years ago that encouragement could take the form of a section commander taking a shit in a recruits locker.


The only conflict we entered in the last 70 years that didn't come after a spending cut was desert storm, where the British Army performed admirably and regularly showed the Americans how it was done
Sometimes I forget just how little contact most British people have with the military. The British Army is not regarded as the best in the world, we're not envied, and we don't show how it's done. The American attitude to the British Army particularly after the 2012 taliban raid on Bastion ranged hit levels of outright contempt.

The British Army is the source of the majority of its own problems not starmer, not the Labour party. It's the Army that unique among western countries takes non degree holders usually from a military family or certain private school, and then commissions them after a 44 week course.

I've encountered Army officers that were sub 80 IQ characters from a 70's sitcom. The government might as well set fire to additional military spending as give it to the army.

The RAF and RN aren't much better but because their officers have technical roles it's harded for them to bluff their way through their miltiary education.
 
Every single one of our ruling class should be made to live in Grimsby on benefits in the winter in a flat with junkie scum below and migrants above.

I have long believed that this country would be a far better place if, in order to run for MP, it should be a hard requirement that you must have lived in the constituency you're running for,earning NMW, for at least 12 months before being considered.

This is what they consider the minimum level of an acceptable income. Let them see how a gigantic chunk of the population exists.
 
I've encountered Army officers that were sub 80 IQ characters from a 70's sitcom.
This is the case with every military’s officers, no matter the branch or nation. Do you really think that officers who went to some university and had some military training courses mixed in with their weekend benders and normal classes are somehow more well-adjusted, more intelligent? Even military academy officers are hardly prime specimens.
 
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This is the case with every military’s officers, no matter the branch or nation. Do you really think that officers who went to some university and had some military training courses mixed in with their weekend benders and normal classes are somehow more well-adjusted, more intelligent? Even military academy officers are hardly prime specimens.
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It's not worth arguing with people like Trig, they are fueled by nothing but hate and bitterness. Probably from being padre's driver on Herrick. It's easier to just let them tire themselves out from sperging than argue with them.
Most of what he's saying is outdated anyway. The Army is for better or for worse far different after the Deep Cut inquiry came out. You can't just shit into recruits lockers anymore and training centres are inspected by Ofsted to make sure that fucked up shit isn't happening.
RMAS is cranking out shit officers precisely because they have too many degree holders. Unis are borderline indoctrination centres these days and all they do is take that indoctrination and bring it to the Army with them. Most of them are great at peacetime officering like writing SJARs but I'm hesitant to say how they'd perform on a deployment. Not to mention that the Army is hemorrhaging junior officers and struggling to fill Coy 2IC PIDs from in battalion, I heard like two out of twelve officers remaining from two intakes or somthing equally ridiculous. Wouldn't bet my eyebrows on how genuine that fact is though but it gives you an idea.
 
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