UK British News Megathread - aka CWCissey's news thread

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.

View image on Twitter


spread happiness@p4leandp1nk
https://twitter.com/p4leandp1nk/status/1080767496569974785

#VEGANsausageroll thanks Greggs

7
10:07 AM - Jan 3, 2019

See spread happiness's other Tweets

Twitter Ads info and privacy


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."

View image on Twitter


pg often@pgofton
https://twitter.com/pgofton/status/1080772793774624768

The hype got me like #Greggs #Veganuary


42
10:28 AM - Jan 3, 2019

See pg often's other Tweets

Twitter Ads info and privacy


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.

 

[melty]

It's really beyond sad and pathetic how utterly cucked and destroyed the former British Empire has become. It's like a comedy skit about a race of aliens, so soft and broken that rather than fight, they simply invite an invading force in and hand over their young women and children while they sit around sipping tea. People would laugh and think it's too absurd, that a race like that would be too stupid and pathetic to evolve in the first place, yet here we are. The most dysgenic, uneducated, straw-chomping backwater hillbilly in America is easily worth 10 British "men" and it's not even close. It's crazy to think this thing used to somehow be an empire that actually conquered places. Was everybody else in the world just asleep for a century? Was that the secret to European "excellency"? I thank God everyday my ancestors had the wisdom to leave that forsaken continent to come to the greatest nation on earth, the United States of America.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

So with that grooming gang thing being made public -- and that it is not some "baseless conspiracy theory" after all -- could that increase or decrease the risk of civil war breaking out in the UK? And of course it being "racist" to notice such really meant "wrongthink" on the matter. Oh yeah and it shows yet again that Wikipedia is run by SJWs.

 

[Inquisitor_BadAss]

Octopus and Ecotricity are scam companies, I'd expect one of them at least to go bust soon.

Labour seem to have swallowed the Nuclear flavoured Kool-Aid and are rolling back some of the Wind and Solar Farm plans in favour of Battery and smaller Nuclear Plants.

Dale Vince is vehemently anti-Nuclear and has said that Ecotricity will never sell Nuclear Power.

Same bloke can't even build a new Football Stadium for his team.

Nuclear is the only viable option outside of fossil fuel and gas. There's no reason not to at this point considering how efficiently we can recycle uranium rods, we have plans for reactors to be put in coal fire plants which could be started the moment clean up is complete. Energy independent in a couple decades and labor could achieve this if they pull there finger out.

 

[teriyakiburns]

It's

Do you want your sausage roll or not?

 

[Overly Serious]

(The fact that the Black man missed his bus in the process of having 'Liberal Lucy' almost frogmarch him across the road is not important - what matters is that the white liberal feels as if she is a hero and she will gain rewards and reverence from the community).

You are describing this:


(George Alexopolous is not only a really talented artist. Some of his cartoons are fucking hilarious).

Spoiler: A couple of his other gems on Progressive racism

And yes, there is a class war. But it's mainly between the working class and those pretending to be working class. It's hilarious (at first) watching someone from a Middle Class background doing their best to play their mental stereotype of being working class - which includes accents, word choice, fashion but rarely the actual 'working' part. In the popular mind the enemy of the very rich is the poor, but in reality the enemy of the very rich is the Middle Class. The elites live in terror of upwardly mobile Middle Classes encroaching on their lives. I don't think they've ever recovered from cruises becoming available to the upper average family. So they do everything they can to perpetuate a class war - but not between the elites and the downtrodden, but between the working and middle class. Historically most revolutions happen when the Middle Class and the Working Class find common ground. And they are well aware of that.

That's why they shit themselves about the early EDL whereas BNP they were fine with. It's because the early EDL was "suits and boots" with Middle and Working class people finding common ground over Islamism. A lot of the early efforts against it - infiltrating to change the emphasis, constant demonisation - were with the intent of discouraging Middle Class people from participating or just being receptive to it.

 

[FedPostalService]

You dumb fucking nigger, it's not about class war, that shit was left behind decades ago.

The Guardian reading, oat-milk sipping class don't give a flying fuck about which Oxbridge college you studied PPE at, if you know which cutlery to use, or who designed your gardens. And they fucking love certain poors, they just have to be malleable low iq swarthy imports.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a geography teachers sensible shoe stamping on a human face— forever.

THIS! Class war is a distraction. The ARE the ruling class now. Every decision goes through these Guardian reading fuckersabd they will bankrupt and jail you for questioning them.

Owen Jones wrote an entire book on the establishment whilst being too dumb to real he is the establishment now.

 

[Otterly]

This is an idiotic, last century POV. The revolting creatures controlling our government are not from the traditional aristocracy and haven't been for 70-odd years now.

I think there’s still the same ethos. It’s just the way it expresses changes.
They think we are scum. Before they thought we were scum because of pedigree and status. Now they see us as a mass of fungible and disposable economic units. The caste system still exists - the people who are the landed gentry are not really part of the modern side of it, they have a parallel world of their own.
Now it’s about ideology and compliance. If you’re an inner party member with rhe right attitudes and the right beliefs you’re IN. There is a class of people who rule still. Now it’s less dukes and more people like starmer - no practical use, and not even any desire to maintain their vast tracts of land for the future. Just am allegiance to a set of ideas from abroad and an almost cult like devotion to then. But still, rhe bulk of people are a blob of scum to them. At best they are a sort of retarded pet chav to be pitied and revolted by.
The majority of the abused children were poorer, in care, vulnerable in some way. A couple of them being middle class ish doesn’t really change that. These were not rhe children of the people who the people in charge see as human. If it had been MPs. Children, this would have been stopped. But our kids? Well they don’t matter. We don’t matter. The pakis don’t matter either, they’re a bioweapon to be used against the masses.

 

[Special spoonie]

I’ve just come across one of those landlords accounts that has raised a good point. These SERCO landlord contracts may be violating the terms of their by to let mortgages. Since one of the terms is usually obtaining identification from your tenants. And we know these lot chuck their ID in the English Channel. It may be violating terms of some insurances but I am sure the government will foot any bills so that’s a moot point. I am sure a lot of these scumlords are not going to tell their lender they’ve got illegals in there. When I worked for a bank in the mortgage department one of my favourite query to come across was people who had ratted out their neighbours for having illegal HMOs. If enough people told on these people lenders will likely give issues for these scumlords. One thing the lender I worked for did was added extra to their interest rate as a penalty. Lenders may also tighten up the lending criteria if enough shit happens to these properties down the line.

 

[Amin Yasister]

we would be speaking German right now

Yes we would. But Britain won both WW's, evident by the fact that everyone in Germany speaks English, and no one has spoken German for 80 years

people who had ratted out their neighbours for having illegal HMOs.

I'm not one for ratting on anyone, but I would on someone running an obviously unregistered HMO near me. You only have to watch a couple of episodes of "Homes Under the Hammer" to see the types of people that buy properties to turn into HMO's, and just know they already have and run a few unregistered ones.

 

[Special spoonie]

I'm not one for ratting on anyone, but I would on someone running an obviously unregistered HMO near me. You only have to watch a couple of episodes of "Homes Under the Hammer" to see the types of people that buy properties to turn into HMO's, and just know they already have and run a few unregistered ones.

Absolutely. I would also do it too if I ever saw one. It’s really easy to do aswell. For a couple of quid you can check the land registry and find out who has the mortgage charge on the property. (Then obviously tell the council)
They likely will get away with it with retrospective planning in most useless councils. At least then they have a mark against them in the future. If it is been found to be a SERCO contract it may cause them huge problems. A lot of lenders wont even let landlords take benefits as income. Why should they accept illegals? I haven’t checked into it further from what brokers say but I imagine only very few specialist mortgage lenders allow this.

 

[>IMPLYING]

It's really beyond sad and pathetic how utterly cucked and destroyed the former British Empire has become.

Do you want your sausage roll or not?

Maybe he's after a pasty instead?

 

[Howslans]

—

—

Spoiler: personal sperg

Lol I didn’t at any point give any indication as to my personal beliefs concerning abortion, I was correcting wildly sensational info regarding the changes to abortion law and SIDS. For the record, I’ve never had an abortion nor would ever have one, and am literally the furthest point a human could possibly be from a baby killer, seeing as I am in third trimester of growing one

 

[>IMPLYING]

who would and should get abortions

Reminds of a recent tweet I saw.

 

[Vesperus]

The class system has been up-ended, and I don't think for the better.
The ruling class are now those with pol-sci degrees who take bribes from the right billionaires.
The middle class are those in journalism and management who are prepared to sell British culture for £50k/year.
The working class are the rest of us.

You could be a duchess with 50,000 acres and you'll still spend more time shoveling shit in the stables worrying about your bills than a Guardian journalist, and you'll have more in common with Jeff from Thames Water that you do with Susan from Deloitte's HR.

 

[A-Logato]

The class system has been up-ended, and I don't think for the better.
The ruling class are now those with pol-sci degrees who take bribes from the right billionaires.
The middle class are those in journalism and management who are prepared to sell British culture for £50k/year.
The working class are the rest of us.

You could be a duchess with 50,000 acres and you'll still spend more time shoveling shit in the stables worrying about your bills than a Guardian journalist, and you'll have more in common with Jeff from Thames Water that you do with Susan from Deloitte's HR.

Class does still exist to an extent but only certain classes particularly care about it being the working and middle classes. The lower, upper and ruling class don't really care all that much for reasons relating to them but the working and middle still hold those concepts in very high regard.

The working class take a weird pride in the fact they have little to no drive for upwards mobility and would much rather watch football and go to the pub then anything else. For the few of them that do attempt to work their way out then you do get a lot of them that see you as a traitor for moving to a nicer area once you've got the money and not staying in run down council estate #9001 with the rest of them, a lot of "oh you think your too good for us?" attitudes or tall poppy syndrome as it's otherwise known. Overall their mostly lazy and a little dumb.

The middle class if by far the worst which is were all your journalists, management, etc come from. They were placed on this earth to make life for the lower and working class as terrible as possible and have consistently voted and acted in ways to bring this upon them as they are the ones who have voted to import millions of foreigners, stop Brexit and much more. They also have this weird obsession with both trying to become upper class but at the same time portray themselves as working class (whilst also hating the working class for not voting how they would like).

The issue now is society is ran by middle management and not those at the top (which would until recently been our upper class) and guess which group tends to make up most of the middle management? Even a lot of people in government (notably Labour) would be described as middle class, it's why they took particular ire at private schools and farmers.

 

[ParasiteSteve]

The working class take a weird pride in the fact they have little to no drive for upwards mobility and would much rather watch football and go to the pub then anything else. For the few of them that do attempt to work their way out then you do get a lot of them that see you as a traitor for moving to a nicer area once you've got the money and not staying in run down council estate #9001 with the rest of them, a lot of "oh you think your too good for us?" attitudes or tall poppy syndrome as it's otherwise known. Overall their mostly lazy and a little dumb.

Pinnacle guardian reader faggotry. I order you to watch more niggers on the beeb, until you kill yourself.

 

[Zoot]

Non-crime hate incidents should be scrapped, says ‘anti-woke’ police chief​

Sir Stephen Watson says the policy is now ‘past its sell-by date’ as he also hits out at the impact of human rights legislation on policing

Martin Evans Crime Editor - 18th June 2025

Non-crime hate incidents have gone too far and should be scrapped, the head of Greater Manchester Police has said.

Sir Stephen Watson said the policy had been introduced with good intentions but was now past its “sell-by date”.

He stressed it was not the job of the police to involve themselves in people’s arguments, and said the collection of non-crime hate incident data had fuelled the accusations of two-tier policing.

In a speech to the Policy Exchange think tank, the Chief Constable, who was knighted in the King’s recent birthday honours list, urged police forces to get back to basics in order to restore public trust and confidence.

He also hit out at the impact human rights legislation was having on policing, saying it was not right that foreign criminals who “fecklessly fathered children” could then avoid deportation by claiming the right to a family life.

A non-crime hate incident is defined as an incident that falls short of being criminal but is perceived to be motivated by hostility or prejudice towards a person with a particular characteristic.

Non-crime hate incidents were introduced in 2014 following recommendations made in the Macpherson Report into the racist killing of Stephen Lawrence.

The article continues at link
Archive

 

[A-Logato]

Pinnacle guardian reader faggotry. I order you to watch more niggers on the beeb, until you kill yourself.

Said like someone who's never lived around the working class. Move to Liverpool, spend a week there and then do a back flip off of St Johns Beacon.

 

[ApeBass]

Said like someone who's never lived around the working class. Move to Liverpool, spend a week there and then do a back flip off of St Johns Beacon.

I'm more inclined to believe you've never lived around the working class and don't have any working class friends or family. I'm still not sure whether to rate your bizarre waffle as dumb, lunacy or autistic.
Regardless of your place in British social hierarchy, you're a dumb, autistic, lunatic.

 

[teriyakiburns]

The working class are not a monolith. Treating them as one is how you end up with all the problems we have today.

The class system has been up-ended, and I don't think for the better.

This is why I prefer to call them the media-political class. A lot of them are aristos, or connected to aristos, but just as many are nouveau riche sorts. What they have in common is that they've spent their entire lives soaking in the language of post-nationalism, privilege, and intersectionalism (from even before it was called that) and see the world through a purely technocratic lens; they believe in rigid rules and processes that must be followed, with everything put into neat categories defined within those rules and nothing allowed to exist outside of them. There is no morality or ethical behaviour; there is no good or bad. There is only a person who follows the rules and a person who doesn't. The former gets rewards, the latter gets punishments. If the rules change, then they must be followed to the letter, even if following them appears to be a complete reversal of belief.

Starmer is a perfect example of this way of thinking. He followed the rules, so whatever he did must be correct. People objecting to his policies weren't following the rules, so they had to be punished. The Casey report has changed the rules, so he follows the rules, and since he's always followed the rules, his conscience is clear. Never mind that just a week ago he was calling people who wanted an inquiry racist. The rules say an inquiry is required now, so he's correct to institute one. Anyone criticising him is clearly not following the rules.