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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.

 

[Mark Goldbridge]

> Country being ruined by immigrants
> Tells people to become immigrants

What did he mean by this?

Seriously though, there is no stranger blight on this earth than colonies of British ex-pats.

Doesn’t seem fair to ruin someone else’s country the same way ours is getting ruined.

You can say it like that and be noble and stay for all your life but the reality is you do back breaking work just to subsidize a local muslim family of 20 who want you dead. No, what's the point? Go somewhere whiter and nicer where you won't be actively discriminated against and hated by an increasingly large part of population.

 

[A-Logato]

You can say it like that and be noble and stay for all your life but the reality is you do back breaking work just to subsidize a local muslim family of 20 who want you dead. No, what's the point? Go somewhere whiter and nicer where you won't be actively discriminated against and hated by an increasingly large part of population.

I'm not one to talk since I plan on leaving anyways but some people do not like the idea of handing our country and it's history over to Jamal and Mohamed and kicking the can down the road by going some where else and praying they don't enact the same policy that ruined here there.

 

[Mark Goldbridge]

I'm not one to talk since I plan on leaving anyways but some people do not like the idea of handing our country and it's history over to Jamal and Mohamed and kicking the can down the road by going some where else and praying they don't enact the same policy that ruined here there.

There's no honor in a noble fool, it's far too late and if you think the thing you outlined there hasn't already happened, you're in too deep.

 

[>IMPLYING]

house mouse, not an outside boy

You got me worried for a moment in that I could possibly mistake an immigrant for a native. Me, a Civnat — well I never!

Thankfully I think can confirm that this guy comes from the outside after I reviewed the video I took of him. It's not your fault in assuming he was an even more bothersome resident; the photo I uploaded here hides his pale feet and white underbelly, and the lighting makes his body and tail appear much browner too which is a feature of the house mouse. From above they're pretty much identical from what I can see except the house mouse appears to have eyes that bulge out less and the field mouse has a slightly pointer face. I also think the photo's perspective makes him appear larger than he actually was, since he was no larger than a clementine. Still an immigrant, but a little less dangerous than a terrorist thankfully.

My first interaction with the furry squatter was after going to bed one night, hearing the cat's bell going crazy and checking the hall to see what was up. The cat, soaking wet from having been outside, was swatting and toying at one of the rugs it had somehow managed to fold over. I nudged it back flat and suddenly he's darting between my legs in search of free accommodation. There was a whole ordeal involving emptying out a storage closet at 11PM, cornering him with the cellar spiders I so desperately didn't want to be near, trying to scoop him up in a towel only for it to result in him making yet another escape. I was worried that the wet patch on his back was blood I'd have to worry about finding a dead mouse somewhere, but in hindsight he was probably also soaked from the heavy rain like the cat, which would confirm he came from the outside.

Get poison down ASAP

Wait, I have to kill the immigrants instead of sending them outside?
...
Sorry guys, I think I'm on team Badenoch now, it's been a good ride.

 

[Kier Starmer]

Me and my fiance are going to pull the K1 trigger soon I think, the job market is dreadful currently and I can pick up base accountancy over in the states. Labour is really speed-running shit atm.

 

[Chaos Theorist]

Me and my fiance are going to pull the K1 trigger soon I think, the job market is dreadful currently and I can pick up base accountancy over in the states. Labour is really speed-running shit atm.

You are taking up kickboxing?

 

[Special spoonie]

Remember Rayner being cagey on the details about whether her new 1.5 million homes were going to migrants?

Illegal migrants will be put up in hotels for years to come, Treasury admits - as advisers tell the Home Office to find cheaper accommodation

The Home Office has been ordered to find cheaper accommodation for migrants in a bid to stop private firms from 'profiteering' from small boat crossings.

A Treasury document acknowledged that in the face of 'global instability' migrants are likely to need to be put up in hotels for years to come, The Sunday Times reported.

At present the Home Office houses more than 38,000 migrants in hotels at a cost of £5.5million per day, with a further 65,000-plus migrants staying in 'dispersal accommodation'.

Dispersal accommodation refers to longer-term, temporary housing for asylum seekers in the UK where they can stay until their claim is processed - the term encompasses everything from shared houses to bedsits and flats.

The difference in cost to the UK taxpayer is considerable, with a hotel stay costing £145 per night on average, compared to only £14 for dispersal accommodation.

The new document, published by the Treasury's new Office for Value for Money (OVfM), makes clear that, if achieved, Sir Keir Starmer's plan to build 1.5million homes in England by 2029 would help reduce the need for asylum seekers to be funneled into hotels.

Labour pledged during the election campaign in June last year to 'end asylum hotels, saving the taxpayer billions of pounds'.

But earlier this month it was revealed that he number of migrants living in hotels at the expense of taxpayers has actually risen by 8,500 since Sir Keir took power.

Back in 2019 the Home Office agreed ten-year contracts with three private contractors to procure accommodation for migrants on UK shores. While each firm has a £12 cap on the profit they can make per person, the influx of small boats has led to a sharp spike in revenues

While Labour pledged during the election campaign in June last year to reduce the number of asylum seekers living in hotels, earlier this month it was revealed that the figure had actually risen by 8,500 under Labour

A group of men outside one of the many hotels across the UK currently housing migrants
However, the document also reaches less than flattering conclusions about the private outsourcing companies contracted to find hotels for migrants, which it says have 'made record profits in recent years,' leading to 'accusations of profiteering'.

Back in 2019 the Home Office agreed ten-year contracts with three private contractors who were tasked with procuring accommodation for migrants on UK shores at a total cost of around £4.6billion.

The three firms - Serco, Clearsprings Ready Homes, and Mears - pay hotel owners, who in turn make a profit of their own.

Each of the three private firms have a limit of approximately £12 on the profit they can make per person but the influx of small boats has led to a sharp spike in migrants for them to accommodate.

According to their most recent accounts, Serco registered a 5 per cent spike in profits in 2023 to £249million.

Meanwhile both Clearsprings and Mears made a profit of more than £50million - a record for the former.

Serco and Mears told the The Sunday Times that their profits resulted from performance across their companies and were not solely the consequence of Home Office contracts, while Clearsprings did not respond to a request for comment.

Mears said: 'The provision of asylum accommodation and support is one part of our activities and our publicly declared profits relate to performance across the group.

Serco is the biggest of the private contractors paid by the government to find accommodation for migrants. According to their most recent accounts, the company registered a 5 per cent spike in profits in 2023 to £249million - which they say resulted from performance across their overall company and were not solely the consequence of Home Office contracts
'Profits on the provision of the asylum accommodation and support contracts are capped and open book arrangements exist with the Home Office.'

A government spokesperson accepted that the cost of temporary accommodation for migrants had 'skyrocketed' but said that was partly because they had 'inherited an asylum system under unprecedented strain.'

They added: 'We are absolutely committed to ending the use of hotels, and since coming into government have taken immediate action to restart asylum processing to begin closing hotels, have surged the number of returns, removing more than 19,000 people with no right to be in the UK, and established the Border Security Command to dismantle the gangs driving this trade.

'The Office of Value for Money will work with departments, local government and the private sector to tackle these problems, ensuring a more strategic, co-ordinated approach that delivers better value for the taxpayer.'

 

[Kane Lives]

I like how the article skirts around the obvious solution: stop taking in browns. It's being framed as a sort of natural phenomenon, which I find extremely dishonest.

 

[Otterly]

Remember Rayner being cagey on the details about whether her new 1.5 million homes were going to migrants?

The knock on effects are huge - hotels are there because people need somewhere to stay on business, or holiday. When you take entire hotels out of business, entire towns’ hotel stock in some cases, you destroy all the businesses that rely on those travellers who were previously there for business, holidays, weekend stays, weddings etc. All the tourism and catering and little shops - all gone.

 

[Overly Serious]

The knock on effects are huge - hotels are there because people need somewhere to stay on business, or holiday. When you take entire hotels out of business, entire towns’ hotel stock in some cases, you destroy all the businesses that rely on those travellers who were previously there for business, holidays, weekend stays, weddings etc. All the tourism and catering and little shops - all gone.

I know a town like that personally. In Ireland and quite touristy (and rightly so - lovely town) and an entire large hotel was taken over long-term with refugees. Drove past it and there was a huge knot of them outside it. Don't know what that did to the tourist trade there.

 

[isalaide]

Thankfully I think can confirm that this guy comes from the outside after I reviewed the video I took of him.

I also support freeing the outside boys. I have a soft heart just no tolerance to cohabit with any rodents. You're right, it was the colour and the tail that made him look like a domestic terrorist to me. You've also got a better idea of the size. Field mice are absolutely tiny. House mice on the other hand, well tbh having had the privilege of living in infested accommodation for much of my childhood, I honestly don't have anything personally against them but the hygiene issue is completely unacceptable. You can't live with the buggers shitting everywhere. The thing to be really frightened of those is when they all disappear, because that means rats have arrived. One of the worst fucking experiences of the human condition is to have your living quarters invaded by rats. Trying to sleep at night whilst listening for the bastards thumping about and then trying to climb upon the furniture to get out of the way of the Jack Russell and the Yorkie killing the bastards is not a restful way to prepare for school the next day. I unequivocally support living with terriers btw. Thanks for letting me share my adverse childhood experiences

 

[6MillionCoofs]

The Home Office has been ordered to find cheaper accommodation for migrants in a bid to stop private firms from 'profiteering' from small boat crossings.

They realise right that the reason private firms take advantage is because there is no cheaper accommodation that is actually fit for the purpise of housing them all right?

And that if you do put them in something that is somehow cheaper everything else gets more expensive.

To say nothing of all the things that shut as @Otterly said because people can no longer come and make use of them.

 

[A-Logato]

Remember Rayner being cagey on the details about whether her new 1.5 million homes were going to migrants?

Build millions of homes on greenbelt land and air drop in 1.5 million immigrants people whilst dismantling local councils into giant mega councils who are less centralised to your area and flip the voting demographics in an area for ever.

 

[Overdrive]

Hopefully your industry is less evil and retarded than mine is

I don't know about being less evil or retarded, we're part of a company that makes most of it's money blowing brown people up.

 

[A-Logato]

I don't know about being less evil or retarded, we're part of a company that makes most of it's money blowing brown people up.

I did work for a "company that blows up brown people" and I remember they had us doing diversity and equity training. Couldn't help but crack a smile a couple of times.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

Build millions of homes on greenbelt land and air drop in 1.5 million immigrants people whilst dismantling local councils into giant mega councils who are less centralised to your area and flip the voting demographics in an area for ever.

Ok but what does all that matter if at the end ot’s all shit? Like it will end up screwing the people that did this in the end.

 

[BongoMongo]

Ok but what does all that matter if at the end ot’s all shit? Like it will end up screwing the people that did this in the end.

They don't care, they only care about the medium term and being in power.

They despise the native population of this country. They absolutely hate us. A gang of machete wielding niggers went to a school this week and attacked children. Have they even started arrests on the scale they did after Southport?

No they have not because they love niggers and pakis and coons and they hate the native population of this country.

If you are white and your elected reps are labour then rest assured: they despise you.

 

[A-Logato]

Ok but what does all that matter if at the end ot’s all shit? Like it will end up screwing the people that did this in the end.

By design to replace whites, doesn't matter if it did and actively still is back firing on them. They will bring in a new client group and pander to it to replace you and bring down wages and rights for the natives. The end goal of all of this is to turn the UK into some where like Dubai or Saudi Arabia with a massive wealth divide and the few last ethnically native people being sat at the top with the remaining natives being swept away into the ethnic sludge of the imported serfs.

 

[isalaide]

They are in hotels because there was a collective pants-shitting early-mid 2000s about holding them in secure immigration detention centres, and to be fair, to build the equivalent of say, 12 to 15 new mega jails across the UK would be a significant public undertaking in terms of cost and time.

It should still be done. (Also, at least 12 new mega jails should be built on top of the existing jails we have in ANY case, the prison estate and pressure on prison places is an absolute disaster already unfolding.)

A huge amount of the public disorder and pressure on services and general humptyness over immigrants awaiting processing would be substantially alleviated if they were banged up 24-7 from arrival until refusal and deportation. The rate of immigrants going on the missing list would be substantially lowered. The opportunity to go on the missing list and join existing diaspora communities would be substantially lowered. The pull factors of the UK as a final destination would be lowered.

Fucking get it done. This is a pretty statist nation. 'Build giant jails' is not a vote losing proposition in 2025. It will provide work placements for all the NEETs who are getting chucked off their benefits. Build some massive fucking jails and send them all there.

(In a side note, I saw a truly phenomenal DWP figure from 2024 that I will track down the source for, that EIGHT PERCENT of all kids under 18 in the UK are in receipt of DLA, overwhelmingly for autism and or ADHD, what the absolute fuck, eight percent, that is taking the piss, absolutely this should not be paid for, no tugboat for tards it only encourages them to be useless to keep their entitlement)

 

[Special spoonie]

They are in hotels because there was a collective pants-shitting early-mid 2000s about holding them in secure immigration detention centres, and to be fair, to build the equivalent of say, 12 to 15 new mega jails across the UK would be a significant public undertaking in terms of cost and time.

It should still be done. (Also, at least 12 new mega jails should be built on top of the existing jails we have in ANY case, the prison estate and pressure on prison places is an absolute disaster already unfolding.)

A huge amount of the public disorder and pressure on services and general humptyness over immigrants awaiting processing would be substantially alleviated if they were banged up 24-7 from arrival until refusal and deportation. The rate of immigrants going on the missing list would be substantially lowered. The opportunity to go on the missing list and join existing diaspora communities would be substantially lowered. The pull factors of the UK as a final destination would be lowered.

Fucking get it done. This is a pretty statist nation. 'Build giant jails' is not a vote losing proposition in 2025. It will provide work placements for all the NEETs who are getting chucked off their benefits. Build some massive fucking jails and send them all there.

(In a side note, I saw a truly phenomenal DWP figure from 2024 that I will track down the source for, that EIGHT PERCENT of all kids under 18 in the UK are in receipt of DLA, overwhelmingly for autism and or ADHD, what the absolute fuck, eight percent, that is taking the piss, absolutely this should not be paid for, no tugboat for tards it only encourages them to be useless to keep their entitlement)

It would also help if we scrapped free legal representation for these illegals. Then they can’t appeal on repeat until they get some woke judge who lets them stay for absurd reasons. If your first appeal is denied you should be out. Allowing one appeal is generous in the first place.