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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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Clem Fandango said:
Guys, I want to believe. I probably want a Reform govt more than most in this thread - I'm a Reform hipster: I liked them before they were cool. By which I mean I travelled quite a way to visit their rally in Derby like 4 years ago (celebrity guest speaker, Anne Widdecombe!). For all their flaws, it was truly refreshing at the time to have people giving speeches with lines like "I am white, and I'm not ashamed", and openly disparaging the recent Black lives Matter movement.

I want it to happen, ASAP. I just don't think it will.

Anyway, enough talk. Let's put some stakes on it. If there's a GE before 2029, I'll change my pfp to some equivalent of the Burger Suit thing in the US politics thread.

Anyone who's confident the other way should make a similar bet!
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Okay, I'll change mine to Vincent Tan (the demonic little shit currently in charge of Cardiff City) if we have a GE called for one of the following dates:

September 4th
September 11th*
September 18th
September 25th

* Date I believe most likely that it will take place.
 
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Chunky Salsa said:
General elections are forced when there is a mechanism to force it, shit doesn't happen just by magic. What actual mechanism do you think will compel a general election, walk me through the steps that you think will happen to make a general election occur.
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Elections are, in general, the responsibility of being called by the Prime Minister. Here's the steps to force one, assuming Starmer doesn't do it himself if he loses the upcoming vote on the bill because contrary to what he says, the bill might be regarded as confidence in him and so he calls one then resigns (throwing a grenade and leaving to not deal with it himself, which'd be the funniest) or he just resigns.
1. No Confidence Starmer
2. New Labour leader is selected (Labour have their own entire process) which may take 4 months (2024's started in January, Starmer was elected leader in April)
3. New leader, now Prime minister, will have to decide whether to hold a GE or not.

Tons of factors involved, but the other half of the Labour party who chose not to no-confidence Starmer might be a pain in the ass for them so may wish to call a GE just to get rid of them, or call one to assuage them until the date of the new election ("Play ball unti xx/202x"), something to that effect. It'd also go against recent precedent to not call one (early GEs called following resignation of Cameron, May, Boris/Truss), which acts as ammo for the opposition in some capacity (don't know how but it feels like it could).

The most definite way to call one regardless of the PM is if commons no-confidences the government, which would also require a large swathe of Labour MPs to vote in opposition to their own party, forcing them to either give power to the opposition or call a general election.

Though it's far more beneficial for Labour to keep their majority than give it up, so it's not very likely.

Edit: If an early one is called, I think we're looking at 2027 or 2028 at the latest or 2026 at the earliest (which relies on Starmer being outed, a new prime minister selected in a similar amount of time to Starmer becoming Labour leader, and then said prime minister calling for a GE a reasonable amount of time from his tenure).
 
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Zoot said:
the more I get involved in propagating nationalist ideas the less doompilled I feel.

Politicians will keep lying and cheating and ignoring people. The increase in browns will increase the anger.

The far right needs to keep working on pushing its ideas out on the grassroots level. from irl to online. It might take twenty years, it might take longer, but imo a return to a properly nationalistic attitude is coming back and once that happenst he apparatus of the state returns to us.

We don't need to rely on the current crop, once the public become hardloine on brown people, the we will just take it all over.
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Just adding to what I was saying.

I do'nt think the UK can hold together as it is racially at the moment. The divisions are grown deeper. Even if we didn't get full migration, I could see some kind of segregation happening in the next 20 years. Maybe even exchanges of populations between towns to make some towns white town and other brown ones.

Where else in the world has this kind of racial and religious difference, in a tiny country, no ended up in serious strife?
 
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Made In Wales said:
* The Unions hate Starmer

* The Woke Left hate Starmer (they're also furious at him proscribing Palestine Action and banning them from all UK Airports - arguably, this is one of very few sensible things Starmer's done whilst in office).
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So he’s based? :o
 
Clem Fandango said:
Guys, I want to believe. I probably want a Reform govt more than most in this thread - I'm a Reform hipster: I liked them before they were cool. By which I mean I travelled quite a way to visit their rally in Derby like 4 years ago (celebrity guest speaker, Anne Widdecombe!). For all their flaws, it was truly refreshing at the time to have people giving speeches with lines like "I am white, and I'm not ashamed", and openly disparaging the recent Black lives Matter movement.

I want it to happen, ASAP. I just don't think it will.

Anyway, enough talk. Let's put some stakes on it. If there's a GE before 2029, I'll change my pfp to some equivalent of the Burger Suit thing in the US politics thread.

Anyone who's confident the other way should make a similar bet!
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They were once men said:
can you give me one example in british history where politicians have ever served the people?
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Maybe?
Almost blind, when he received the last letter from Victoria of which he was aware on 5 April, he held it momentarily, then had it read to him by Lord Barrington, a Privy Councillor. One card, signed "A Workman", delighted its recipient: "Don't die yet, we can't do without you."
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They were once men said:
can you give me one example in british history where politicians have ever served the people?
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Not 100% of the time, no, I cannot.

However... in order to be successful in a democratic government they have to work for their constituents at least some of the time if they want to stay in office.

Plus, they have to keep those who put them where they are happy too (in Labour's case, this includes the various Unions). Basically, if the Unions backed a Labour leader only for that leader to come down heavily on them (i.e. not serve them as agreed) then the Unions have that power to make that leader's time at the top very short indeed.

It’s always a dangerous balancing act for them and, they always run the danger of pleasing no one when they try to please everyone.

It’s therefore up to the voters to see past pompous chest-thumping and flag waving to see who are the true politicians who truly care about their constituents and who will at least try and make their lives that little bit better - even if they are only doing it to steal a little bit of glory on the way, it's an overall good and positive thing to be seen as kind, caring and compassionate.

I will say that Rupert Lowe and possibly Nigel Farage have the best rapport with those they have been elected to serve, though even some Labour MP's outside of the London bubble do care about their electorate and would rather do them right then try and suck up to those in higher rank.

Historically, I would say that Lord Anthony Wedgwood-Benn was a real man of the people and didn't care who in Labour he pissed off by giving a damn about the electorate - had he stood against 'Maggie' and not the Welsh duo of Foot and 'We're Alright!' Kinnock, history could well have been a lot different. Alas, now, we'll never know.

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So he’s based? :o
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Actually, that in itself spawns a bigger question:

Just what is a Sir Keir Starmer and what does it stand for?

(Okay, technically two questions...)
 
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Zoot said:
The far right needs to keep working on pushing its ideas out on the grassroots level. from irl to online. It might take twenty years, it might take longer, but imo a return to a properly nationalistic attitude is coming back and once that happenst he apparatus of the state returns to us.
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I don't believe far right ideas are unpopular or uncommon. I think most white people share those ideas and would openly express them if they didn't fear a knock at the door. The police state keeps the conversations over garden fences but there's a lot of garden fences where it happens.

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Actually, that in itself spawns a bigger question:

Just what is a Sir Keir Starmer and what does it stand for?

(Okay, technically two questions...)
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A wanker

He stands when he wants to put his willy in a little boy's mouth.

Any disagreements?
 
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But no for real, he's legit a sociopath, or a psychopath or however you want to say 'shark in a people suit'. There's genuinely nothing in that man, the interview he did where he casually admitted that he's never really felt fear, that he has no hobbies, doesn't have a favourite anything, and his interaction with his children is a transactional information seeking thing showed that. He's a husk.
 
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I have been saying for a year, I wholeheartedly think Starmer beats Victoria. He said in the same interview that "he does not dream." The fuck! The guy also hates women and uses them as props, but is afraid of men because they'd square up. I read that interview and was horrified because who the fuck thinks that is a good piece to publish.

I think his father was Jopedo, and this is just a Pinnichio-style LARP.
 
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British Businesses Invited to Join UK Delegation at China’s Leading Investment Fair (A)

The China-Britain Business Council (CBBC), in partnership with the Department for Business and Trade (DBT), is inviting UK companies to take part in the official business delegation to the 25th China International Fair for Investment and Trade (CIFIT), where the United Kingdom will be recognised as the Country of Honour.​


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Amin Yasister said:
Seeing as the two have been in conflict since 1979 and are always having spats, perhaps they just tune it out because they couldn't give a fuck?
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That'd rely on said people being aware of events preceding that far back, retaining the names of other countries, knowing the vague history of other places beside their own, watching news on telly or learning of it via osmosis or something, etcetera. If they tuned it out then it's probably less a result of "Israel and Iran? Who cares" and more "Somewhere, someplace that doesn't concern me is fighting another place somewhere, someplace that doesn't concern me? Who cares". Israel could be some country in the middle of Africa and Iran South America for all it matters.

However: "Giving my hours away to some Paki cunt" is a remark at least one of them has said in recent times, so it doesn't really matter what they do or do not know about other places, heart's in the right place politically lmao
 
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Angela almost made Reeves cry.

I think Ange is playing a game here, fair play, you can't take the North out of the slag. If Starmer thinks there will be no backlash in partnering with the Tories, then he is either being played for a fool or exceptionally retarded. You may as well ask Tony Martin's ghost to shoot you in the face in the Commons. It is suicide, your party at the very second will be sharpening the knives.

All they need to do is shit can the migrant hotels and ask benefits for the illegals because it will save over 13 billion compared to the alloted 5 billion and that 5 billion is not even tested.

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