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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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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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>IMPLYING said:
"We will smash the people smuggling gangs at source."
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Revenge for 1558! We're taking back Calais from the French!
Based Keir!
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Ooh, he gets it. Don't worry guys, Kier gets it.

It's too late mate. The normies have woken up. Literally yesterday my wife (who is always my test for the ultimate normie) said to me "You know [area where we're planning to move to in London] is only 40% white?"

Why is she even looking stuff like that up? It's not like I've been ranting on about it (despite how I post on here). She's literally doing her own research, and seems pretty surprised by what she's finding out.
 
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-Jack- said:
I mean, how many restarts can one person get?
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Both deals include us "investing" money into these third world shitholes, which won't resolve or fix anything but give these governments tax payer money. Round and round we go again, nothing of significance ever happens.
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How else will the politically connected get their kickbacks? If it was anything domestic, there would be taxpayers demanding results to show for it, a foreign tribal warlord will just pocket the money and parrot whatever they want him to say.
 
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Funny thing is we don't even have to shoot them, we just don't have to rescue them. Boats are being sent out with just enough fuel to get stranded on the channel so they have to be picked up, so the first few batches of people will simply drown before trafficking gangs start giving them more fuel.

Alternatively we could just carpet bomb Calais. Anyone who has ever been to that complete and utter shithole or got jammed in traffic for hours before being allowed through the tunnel knows that it's for the best.

In fact one of my most Right Wing opinions is that the channel tunnel and all ferrying should be cut off until France dismantles the camps. All cargo to the UK should be done via the Newcastle to Amsterdam ferry and not a single fucker in Calais is ever getting here. France would lose out on a metric fuckton of money and all the brave doctors and footballers would seep back into the mainland and kick off something fierce.
 
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Muad'Dick said:
I hope the Tories are paying attention to this heel turn. If they were to play their cards right (they won't), they should be channeling the spirit of Peter "if you want a nigger for a neighbour, vote liberal or labour" Griffiths in the lead up to the next general election.
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They’ll just lie again.
 
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The Tories cannot say or do anything to help them at this point, they've had 14 years in power and despite multiple promises of cutting immigration they've done the direct opposite. The Boriswave alone is enough to condemn them to the Liberal Democrat tier of lunacy vote.

I think they only thing that could probably get them in is if they run a campaign entirely on the death penalty.
 
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They’ll just lie again.
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Of course they will. Same as Labour and Reform. You don't just abandon a major voting bloc.

The pearl clutching I've seen from Labour party members of Starmer's recent change of heart is pretty funny though. Even Ed Miliband displayed a surprising amount of awareness when he said that immigration had a direct effect on the working class. Fucks sake, even Gordon Brown of all people ran with "British jobs for British workers" and Jack Straw said asylum seekers were faking it. Labour are acutely aware of the damage that immigration poses.

The 1964 Smethwick campaign that saw Gordon Walker (who at that point was a Labour permanent fixture) get ousted caused shockwaves in the party because it highlighted the differences between public and private opinion. Labour knew, even back then, that immigration was creating "urban blight", which was why Harold Wilson passed the Commonwealth Act in '68 in an attempt to stop the boroughs turning into Kenya.

They all fucking know the damage immigration is causing, but the only way you're going to cure it at this point is physical removal and who is going to step forward and sign off on that?
 
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It is crazy that the Overton window shifts just a little bit right, and Kier Starmer, the most pro-immigration person alive, turns to this.




His Twitter spammed 13 immigration posts for 2 days, pop off sis.

Could this be a similar tactic to how he ousted the Corbynites by making the far left reveal their power levels and deal accordingly? Did Tony update his patch notes and enter the command <be based af>? I have to admit it's been 3 days, and this feels like an RKO out of nowhere.
 
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Sorry for the autism, but speaking of Enoch Powell, there's a corking episode of Call the Midwife (the missus watches it, leave me alone), an extremely gay but pleasant show with a 50s/60s British setting, with this episode set around his Rivers of Blood speech. The main arc being the community all coming together in support of the boat arrivals and absolutely sticking it to the knuckle dragging RACIST SCUM who don't want their jobs taken and peaceful, white British community dececrated.

The show is based in Tower Hamlets. If you've been you know.
 
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