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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.

 

[Made In Wales]

fuck i'm praying that something happens that forces starmer into a general election. i don't know i can last this prick.

Assuming that the Disability Bill goes before Parliament before the Summer Recess, 150 or more Labour MP's voting against it will mean Starmer's position in untenable.

That will mean removal of the Whip for them and a minority Government which no other party will back.

Then it's the G & E

Trump has Starmer in check for now, and Starmer supporting Israel will only annoy the Wokes into demanding that he go - there's been protests in Havant & Rochester at Lockheed properties today by the great unwashed, plus Youth Demand are threatening violence against Labour MP's for not obeying them (ironic, when yesterday was the anniversary of the murder of Jo Cox).

If and when anything comes about, my money is on the Left (paid by Russia) to do something so 'off the scales' bad that whilst it removes Starmer it will remove them as well.

The hotheads on the Left are only getting more angry - there's the risk of violence in London tomorrow morning as one of Kneecap is up before the beak, and if he is sent down then the Police will have to deal with the mental midgets screaming 'free plasticine!'

 

[EddyRooney]

Yakoob and Afzal were granted unconditional bail to appear at Southwark Crown Court on July 15.

Unconditional bail and a month before the next appearance ? We'll never see them again. Why has it been decided they aren't a flight risk ?

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

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I wonder why 2,000,000 Brits have officially left the UK since covid.

Can we make you PM already?

I would turn this little Island into the envy and power of the world, raise the Empire from the ashes and like the Phoenix, it would rise stronger, faster, more powerful than before. To bring forth a new technological age of free energy, medical, scientific and military advancements the likes of which mankind has never seen. A people willing to build, sweat and fight for the defence, love and growth of the country. A business sector so efficient that it could pay people to do nothing but create art, music and literature for no reason other than it can. Business leaders so flush with capital that they would build towns, hospitals and infrastructure like their forefathers did.
A social program not abused, but admired and adored by all of those from each corner of the globe.

So incredible would this new Empire be that ancients from beyond the veil would notice; The Romans would be in the awe at our military might, The Greeks would nod in admiration at our forward thinking philosophers, the Egyptians would kneel at our monuments that laugh in the face of the impossible, The Victorians proud at what their children have become.

We would stand on the shoulders of bowed giants, carried forward to upon them to appreciate the past and build a new future, not just for our children, but for their children and their children forever more.

For the few, it would be a lifetime sacrifice of hard work, so much would be owed to them for the dedication and achievements. For the many, the greatest reward at for minimal effort; just one stroke of a pen in a box to begin a new world.

Vote for BGS party and we can start the future of past glories, today. Here, take our party pin

 

[FedPostalService]

Shit, I'd take @Null as PM before Starmer.

I thought you guys wanted a white PM?

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Back from Megacity 1, was genuinely surprised there wasn't any flash protests but I get the feeling it might build up and we'll get them this weekend. Everything from the release of the report has horrified me. I was right. Big Baz was right. Muslamic Rayguns guy was right. The icing on the cake being the 2010 cover up to push the problem along another 15 years so whoever was in charge didn't have to deal with the political fallout.

The sheer audacity of some politicians has added more fuel to the fire. "Think of the victims" is such an evil cop out answer, "The line isn't good, I didn't hear the question" is another. I can't work out if MPs are absolutely fucking terrified and are forcing themselves to repeat the party lines until they can't anymore, or whether they genuinely believe what they're saying.

All I can say is this: There's no unified "Gotcha" that can disperse this, and this is something that'd require about 5 months of interview question training to be able to deflect this. So the next few weeks are going to see a LOT of careers being ended with quotes. They may not know they're dead wo/men walking as they'll still have their seats until their next election, but every single misstep puts more fuel into the fire, and when the next Paki is caught it's going to fucking explode.

 

[>IMPLYING]

Hope lies with the racist proles.

Agree with this sentiment completely.

Biblically accurate:

 

[Zoot]

Huh, almost like creating massive disincentives to come and incentives to fuck off has a powerful effect. Just imagine if we applies this to BAMEs and their religions across the board.

 

[Product Placement]

All this talk about getting Muslims to leave the country, yet no one bringing up the one thing that would get overwhelming public support. Ban cousin marriage and make having sex with your cousin fall under existing incest laws. And no grandfathering in, any cousin marriage in the UK is no longer recognised and they get no protection.

Also how much money does the UK spend on caring for disabled inbreeds. You have extra costs for school, extra money for the NHS to keep them alive, benefits, then butch of other stuff. Lot of money to be saved.

 

[Clem Fandango]

Hey guys, how ya doing?

Oh, me? Not so great. See, I recently discovered this site locrating.com, anyone heard of it?

Well, if you've not been astonished and/or horrified today, check it out!

Basically, it's a site that let's you check some statistics on schools in your area, or maybe an area you're planning on moving to. Some of the stats include stuff like ofsted rating, truancy rate, and some more interesting stuff like demographic breakdown and "English not first language" percentage of pupils.

How this site exists and isn't a national fucking scandal is kind of bewildering to me. I don't think I've kept it a secret that I'm moving to London. Well here's a fun game: put in any postcode within the M25 and find a school with more than 50% white British students.

I've been fucking horrified with this site. The nearest school to my new house has over 50% Indian students. That's not a joke. Over 50%. Why even live in England at this point??

I've found nearby schools with over 75% English not first language.

I wasn't planning on sending my son to a private school, because I literally just bought a second house and I'm a little over stretched right now, but what choice do I have? I guess I'll be selling my kidney to loansharks to send my son to a school where they don't give the assemblies in Urdu.

 

[>IMPLYING]

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Huh, almost like creating massive disincentives to come and incentives to fuck off has a powerful effect. Just imagine if we applies this to BAMEs and their religions across the board.

Damn straight.

For reference:
10,000 Krona = 780.02 Pound sterling
350,000 Krona = 27,300.50 Pound sterling.

This decrease was predicted last year.

It also coincides with them handing out fewer and fewer grants for "asylum seekers" (which we know from UK precedent are just illegals with government acknowledgement for the most part).

They have are also discussing implementing a policy which I think should be enacted immediately in the UK, if not everywhere and anywhere.

If the nation bearing the title "Captain Swedistan", rape capital of Europe, and otherwise cucked beyond all belief can come back from the brink, so can anyone.

 

[BongoMongo]

Yeah, I’m not a fan of abortion if im honest. It’s always killing but I also understand that horrible suffering is a lot to ask of someone, and so in some cases that killing may be acceptable. The law already allows for this. If the unthinkable happens and you get a shock from your 20 week scan then it is possible to abort, and ALL cases where the health of the mother is on the line would also be allowed.
You’re asked, if you’re high risk, if it comes down to it and it’s you or them what are your wishes as well (fairly subtly and gently I must say.)
What these bills want is abortion on demand, for no reason up to birth, and I cannot support that. It is simply murder. On demand now I think is up to 18 or so weeks (20? I don’t know) but it’s well after the initial scans.

It's 20 weeks. Though if you live in Scotland and find out at your 20 weeks scan that your baby is incompatible with life and you cannot face an induced abortion then you are packed off to London (I can't understand that, why not Newcastle? It's nearer) to have the abortion.

It's a fucking horrible thing to go through at an already traumatizing time in your life. BBC Radio Scotland covered it a few years back and the Scottish Government commissioned the WELTOP (Women's experience of later termination of pregnancy) report in 2013 which changed precisely nothing. You can have a surgical abortion in Scotland up to 18 weeks only and I would imagine it's to appease the more-likely-to-vote-SNP-Cafflicks.

Personally I couldn't have gone full term and i don't regret my choice. It was the less shitty of the two options. However the changes they propose are simply unconscionable to me and I can't stomach it.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

If the nation bearing the title "Captain Swedenstan", rape capital of Europe, and otherwise cucked beyond all belief can come back from the brink, so can anyone

You can tell Sweden's on the right track because within about a decade people have stopped saying "more countries should be like it" and instead just barely mention the place.

 

[Coolio55]

All this talk about getting Muslims to leave the country, yet no one bringing up the one thing that would get overwhelming public support. Ban cousin marriage and make having sex with your cousin fall under existing incest laws. And no grandfathering in, any cousin marriage in the UK is no longer recognised and they get no protection.

Also how much money does the UK spend on caring for disabled inbreeds. You have extra costs for school, extra money for the NHS to keep them alive, benefits, then butch of other stuff. Lot of money to be saved.

I've been thinking about this sort of topic* but how the fuck are we supposed to process all the mandatory divorces?
*Specifically, "How would I undo gay marriage?"

 

[BongoMongo]

I've been thinking about this sort of topic* but how the fuck are we supposed to process all the mandatory divorces?
*Specifically, "How would I undo gay marriage?"

Put through legislation rendering cousin marriages null and void. Make them non-existent in the eyes of the law and make it a crime to enter into a false marriage or to have a child with your cousin, punishable by expulsion from the country.

 

[Snekposter]

We should return to our ancestors. Paint yourselves blue and stab a Frenchman today!

"The French may take our lives, but they will never take our... damn, this yoke they've slapped on us is fucking heavy."

Can we make you PM already?

They've got strong competition from Otterly though, don't they?

 

[>IMPLYING]

I've been thinking about this sort of topic* but how the fuck are we supposed to process all the mandatory divorces?
*Specifically, "How would I undo gay marriage?"

All this talk about getting Muslims to leave the country, yet no one bringing up the one thing that would get overwhelming public support. Ban cousin marriage and make having sex with your cousin fall under existing incest laws. And no grandfathering in, any cousin marriage in the UK is no longer recognised and they get no protection.

Also how much money does the UK spend on caring for disabled inbreeds. You have extra costs for school, extra money for the NHS to keep them alive, benefits, then butch of other stuff. Lot of money to be saved.

There's some genies you can't put back in the bottle, at least without compensation of some kind — such as gun buybacks — but illegalising cousin marriage will be somewhat impotent. All marriages now illegal under the law will simply not recognised by the state anymore; they can still remain together in their abominable pairing and their marriage is still recognised by "Allah" or "under Islamic law" or something so it's like whatever. It's not like "gay marriage" was any different than "civil unions", they just got the name changed effectively, and if it's a sham marriage anyway in the eyes of God who cares what the gays themselves call it? It might cause issues when it comes to taxes and whatnot but for the devout sort what will they care?

Certain, implementable measures to get Muslims to leave the country that don't on undoing a big procedure like that and will require a change in behaviour are:
1. Banning "religious face coverings" (niqab/hijab)
2. Banning "non-religious slaughter" (halal)
3. Banning "circumcision for under-18s unless medically necessary" (stops them from being able to abide by religious law)

I think the young and more devout lot (I don't know why they have this trend but apparently younger Muslims are more zealous than their parents, probably trying to assert their identities as a minority) are more likely to go home to be able to abide by their religion than stay. The olds are more difficult though since one of the rights that gives some Muslims a permanent right to stay is if they can't get the medical treatment they receive here at home, which old Muslims who come over on temp visas to see their kids end up staying forever — you could change this for future visitors but applying it retroactively might be seen as too cruel.

If there's still too many of them here after that, we can pay them to leave like Sweden, renouncing their citizenship in the process and making it so they can't ever come back.

Would you guys pay one hundred and thirty-eight billion pounds (138000000000 ) to pay six million Muslims to leave the country forever? (23k if they leave)

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

They've got strong competition from Otterly though, don't they?

@Otterly can be my Health Secretary.
@EddyRooney can be Finance Secretary or Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Other positions available. Apply within.

 

[Clem Fandango]

Would you guys pay one hundred and thirty-eight billion pounds (138000000000 ) to pay six million Muslims to leave the country forever? (23k if they leave)

Sounds like an absolute bargain. And no I'm not joking.

 

[Made In Wales]

@Otterly can be my Health Secretary.
@EddyRooney can be Finance Secretary or Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Other positions available. Apply within.

I'll take Minister for Wales and other fish, if available.

...and congrats, we can now kill babies in the UK same as Gaza!

MPs have voted to decriminalise abortion after 24 weeks in England and Wales.

Yes: 379 No: 137.

Also:

https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/politics/abigail-marshall-katung-national-crime-agency-house-seizure-5174447

Archive: https://archive.ph/JF6vd

Ex Leeds Lord Mayor 'dreadfully upset' as £1m luxury house seized by National Crime Agency after High Court ruling

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

illegalising cousin marriage will be somewhat impotent.

Bingo. The cousin marriage thing, while it should be made illegal, is another distraction. Banning it will see zero adherence to the law and just give fuel to the "wah, racism" lot.

It should be an aside in a much larger bill.

Other positions available. Apply within.

High executioner for complicit prior politicians. I'll carry out my role sans mask due to the universal acclaim it will receive and because denying people the smile so wide it will cause my ears to meet atop my skull would be cruel.