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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.

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.
 
Some good news to wake up to - the normally Welsh Labour worshipping Wales Online now admits that it's curtains for Labour this side of Offa's Dyke, and that it's between Plaid and Reform UK at the next Welsh Election:

Archive: https://archive.ph/wip/l5d78

They're finally rounding on Drippy Drakeford, Loony Morgan and Starmer.

Strange timing, when everybody from The Guardian to The Daily Mail is vilifying Labour.

In England, it will be Lib Dems (possibly Greens) v Reform UK with the Uniparty gone.
 
Weeds a nigger drug and you're a retarded faggot if you use it. No one worth knowing smokes it, and everyone knows this, which is why everyone flids out and cries and shits themselves whenever its suggested that maybe they stop drugging themselves. You are however not going to convince a drug addict of this fact, and they aren't going to stop. Same with a pisshead, or glue sniffer, or anyone else like that. Festivals are fine as long as you're not a retard who can't relax a little bit without going insane. There, I the unbiased authority have spoke and the debate need not carry on further.

Also the very real idea of a lib dem vs reform election legitimately makes me belly laugh.
 
Horse shoe theory is always funny to read. If someone opposes a country full of problems they're just like the Muslims because the Muslims oppose some of those same problems?

You can't claim the problem isn't weed, it's that people can't handle weed. That makes it a problem and many of us are talking first hand experiences with these people and of problems in our area because of it. "Just move some where else" is not a solution to a country full of brain dead weed addicts (spare the it's not addictive line) pissing every where.

I'm going to sum it up as Lad culture because it short hands the conversation. Getting fucked up on substances or booze as a regular thing isn't healthy. It's not the same as having a cold pint and a natter with the locals at the pub. No one believes "I just want to get drunk and dance with my friends!", not even your Dad did. We've all been there and we've seen what those girls do once they think they're not been watched. The state of relationships is completely fucked and it has got to change if we want to have a proper society. The 1950s larp does say we need to protect our women and we do need to protect them. Teenagers do stupid stuff and parents need to start raising their kids properly. Modern Britain looks like a brothel, it acts like a brothel, it stinks and all the women you see are dressed as skimpy as possible and flashing camel toe. That's so unhealthy to live in and hedonism has to end and people have to be honest about their behaviour and how destructive it is. When people compare us to the Weimar republic we have a problem and the solution isn't to keep carrying on as if everything is fine. I feel sorry for you if you think seeing women dressed like prostitutes dancing every where so they can upload videos to tiktok is something normal or healthy. It's a meat market for weirdos online to pull up and masturbate to. Our culture is rotten internally and externally and unless it's fixed there's no point deporting all the foreigners. We'll simply decline further into hedonism and act no better than the people we just kicked out. We have had better socities, we can do better and it's up to each and everyone of us to do better. Not make excuses for why 'it's just a bit of fun' means you act like a nigger.

Why do you need weed to enjoy the view from a mountain? What is so wrong with your brain that you can't just enjoy the view with a fully functional brain? The problem isn't the view, it's the person viewing it.

Also the very real idea of a lib dem vs reform election legitimately makes me belly laugh.
What do lib dems even stand for? They've always been that party college kids vote for once then never again around here.
 
Weeds a nigger drug and you're a retarded faggot if you use it. No one worth knowing smokes it, and everyone knows this, which is why everyone flids out and cries and shits themselves whenever its suggested that maybe they stop drugging themselves. You are however not going to convince a drug addict of this fact, and they aren't going to stop. Same with a pisshead, or glue sniffer, or anyone else like that. Festivals are fine as long as you're not a retard who can't relax a little bit without going insane. There, I the unbiased authority have spoke and the debate need not carry on further.

Also the very real idea of a lib dem vs reform election legitimately makes me belly laugh.
Well, if it makes you laugh, then so be it.

There's no point in voting for anybody but these two, depending upon your stance regarding Brexit - if you oppose it then it's Lib Dems or Greens, and if you support it then it's Reform UK.

The only concession to this is if you care more about Welsh or Scottish independence than anything else.

Nobody at this point can give a valid reason for voting for the Uniparty.

As for Weed, I know of somebody who takes it with her soup or green tea - she is 80, a shut-in, her knees have turned to shit and she has been in constant agony. The Weed has helped ease the pain, therefore I more than understand her taking it as the local hospital is worse than fucking useless and her Son doesn't give a damn (he's got a myriad of mental health issues, and is probably better out of the way) and I won't judge her taking something which at least partly gives her a reason to go on.

@Kofi Drinka The Lib Dems stand for re-joining the EU and that's pretty much it - I think they want to be 'Labour Lite' i.e. not as heavy handed and controlling and I believe they want to get the cost of living down but they also want to keep the Green Levy taxes as well...
 
Some good news to wake up to - the normally Welsh Labour worshipping Wales Online now admits that it's curtains for Labour this side of Offa's Dyke, and that it's between Plaid and Reform UK at the next Welsh Election:

Archive: https://archive.ph/wip/l5d78

They're finally rounding on Drippy Drakeford, Loony Morgan and Starmer.

Strange timing, when everybody from The Guardian to The Daily Mail is vilifying Labour.

In England, it will be Lib Dems (possibly Greens) v Reform UK with the Uniparty gone.
Plaid Cymru is such a joke of a party, I feel like most people in Wales who vote for them don't understand that they'll just be an accessory to the EU and not really independant.
 
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As for Weed, I know of somebody who takes it with her soup or green tea - she is 80, a shut-in, her knees have turned to shit and she has been in constant agony. The Weed has helped ease the pain, therefore I more than understand her taking it as the local hospital is worse than fucking useless and her Son doesn't give a damn (he's got a myriad of mental health issues, and is probably better out of the way) and I won't judge her taking something which at least partly gives her a reason to go on.
This is a good thing and it's what it should be used for. I've known people who use weed this way and it really improves their lives. There are medical reasons why it's a good thing and people should use it. It's bad as a recreational thing.

That's the reason it hasn't caught on generally. People see it as a gay drug and don't want to be associated with it.
Where's the kiwi thread on underground gay drug scenes in the UK? Which streamers and politicians will we reveal to be drugged up faggots?
 
The stark reality is that even if weed was punishable by crane tomorrow, there's no fucking police to enforce any of it. That's one of the key reasons why people are so fucking tired of weedbros, back in the 90s you'd have to be completely fucking retarded to consider smoking it in the city centre because some copper would take it from you, give you a ticking off and you MIGHT even get arrested if the copper was one of those clean as a whistle types. Now? There's no punishment for it so why not smoke it everywhere with zero sense of security? Why not smoke it with zero disregard for anyone around you.

THAT is why half the country would enforce a strict weed ban out of fucking spite. There was a perfectly fine social contract of "if you want to do it, do it at a festival or in your own homes or in the middle of nowhere" and now it's shattered because niggers and pakis and native retards can't grasp subtlety or the concept of a high trust society.
 
just want to get drunk and dance with my friends!", not even your Dad did. We've all been there and we've seen what those girls do once they think they're not been watched.
I wasn’t being watched. I, and the mixed sex bunch of 16-21 year olds I hung out with managed to go to loads of gigs, have a couple of pints and dance and come home with nothing worse than a t shirt. Same as the lads did, only we had better bladder control. We weren’t drunk out of our mind or shagging strangers . At worst a bit tipsy and cringe dancing.
Perhaps we are just Terribly Old, or perhaps we were just somewhat shy nerdy teenagers, but not everyone descends into drug fuelled orgies the moment they’re out of the parental supervision.
(there’s a point of being told that all women are drug fuelled/gold digging/‘cum sluts (ffs) where one begins to wonder if the ladies at the BP zone arent actually right …. )
That's one of the key reasons why people are so fucking tired of weedbros, back in the 90s you'd have to be completely fucking retarded to consider smoking it in the city centre because some copper would take it from you, give you a ticking off and you MIGHT even get arrested if the copper was one of those clean as a whistle types.
This is the point, really. All these things that plague the city centre are things you wouldn’t have dreamt of doing thirty years back. Drop litter? You wouldn’t anyway because your mum would have thrashed you, but if you did? Someone would clip your ear. Piss in public? You’re getting a public order offence. You just wouldn’t do it. You would be shamed and taken to task and if someone like your clean as a whistle types was there you’d get arrested. Group of men lurking around? You’d get moved on.
All that is gone. Everyone’s fragmented, there are no communities. Over half the people you meet if you go it o town are brown and you know they’ll kick your head in if you object to them dropping litter

We no longer police each other’s behaviour like we used to. Now our thoughts and opinions are policed instead. So the city centre looks like sodom and gomorrah on a Friday night and there’s nary a copper to be seen but criticise starmer or a tranny and you’ll have six polis at the door in minutes.
We badly need a return to shame as a thing, and to bobbies on the beat and broken windows policing. I want the people fly tipping in the countryside rounded up and shoved in the landfill. And then frankly once everything’s nice and quiet and clean again I don’t give a toss if people go clubbing at the weekends. Not my thing, but have at it.
The root cause is the people who caused mass immigration and anti British policies
 
@Otterly The only 'policing' that some people tend to do of each other is police thoughts and words.

If you don't like a littered-up countryside, then I'd avoid looking at the photos of the Glastonbury site today - honestly, it's disgraceful.
It is absolutely disgusting. Do they still let you in for free if you agree to be the cleanup crew? I’d institute a HHGTG style policy;

The fabulously beautiful planet Bethselamin, , where the cumulative erosion by ten billion visiting tourists a year has led to a unique situation where any net imbalance between the amount you eat and the amount you excrete while on the planet is surgically removed from your body weight when you leave.
 
(there’s a point of being told that all women are drug fuelled/gold digging/‘cum sluts (ffs) where one begins to wonder if the ladies at the BP zone arent actually right …. )
BP Women are too fat too be any of those things AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAA.

But no, I've been to a few modern festivals, and they basically were open air brothels yes. But that I think was probably always going on and available if you were looking for it. Same with universities. I drank and partied and was an animal at uni, but that was optional; and a lot of people opted out of doing that. I also enjoyed boardgame nights, and D&D soc and met people (girls and boys) who were never going to touch booze; or if they did touch it, they didn't go overboard and never would.

I don't think we have an endemic problem of hedonism as an endemic problem in of itself. I think a lot of younger people are unemployed, bored, and it's something to do. A lot of them also don't drink, don't go out much and will play boardgames with each other, or walk around museums. With the rise of social media, we probably just notice the ones acting out more. On the other hand though, ~5% of British girls are creators on OnlyFans, which is a disgustingly high number.
 
And then frankly once everything’s nice and quiet and clean again I don’t give a toss if people go clubbing at the weekends.
Seeing the local towns even before letting out time is like a zoo on a weekend night. Constant fighting, women so pissed they can't stand flashing the world, constant police and ambulances racing around. Taxis acting like it's mad max.

I know I'm no fun allowed man today but that's not a good culture. That's why I sum it up as Lad culture so we know roughly what I mean. No one wants to see up a fat girl's skirt while she's puking into the gutter and her best mate tries to call for a taxi. We can't have a clean and quiet town if every weekend is a free for all.

I am a good lad and I clean up my area. I don't ask any one to help or mention I do it. I will go pick up litter I see on the road side and trim hedges to keep the paths clear. I know the council won't do it so I keep my community as tidy as I can. I bought some poopa scoopers a few years back and placed them along the public footpaths and people started using them so the paths weren't covered in dog shit any more. You can make a difference with small investments of time and effort. If you only do it so you don't have to walk through a hedge or on the road it's rewarding.
 
I know I'm no fun allowed man today but that's not a good culture. That's why I sum it up as Lad culture so we know roughly what I mean. No one wants to see up a fat girl's skirt while she's puking into the gutter and her best mate tries to call for a taxi. We can't have a clean and quiet town if every weekend is a free for all.
I do wonder if that's maybe because of our drinking age. I hate to be a 'The USA has redeemable and good features' guy; but the drinking age of 21 in bars and pubs; does give them a softer and more relaxed night out culture. I would do Rugby socials at university and I'd get through a £40 bottle of jameson every single night we had one. I wasn't even one of the crazy ones either. America doesn't seem to have it as bad.
 
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Plaid Cymru is such a joke of a party, I feel like most people in Wales who vote for them don't understand that they'll just be an accessory to the EU and not really independant.
Exactly, they don't want 'independence' they want EU serfdom.

Sad thing is that there's no other credible opposition to Reform UK in Wales than Rhun ap Iorwerth and Plaid - Labour and Tories are dead, the Lib Dems have bled out support since Kirsty Williams was an AM (she is the cretin who said that four year olds learning about blowjobs is harmless...) and the Greens only seem to do well in Cardiff and Newport seats, possibly the Gower too as they've had increases there recently.

Reform will win the Senedd and 22 seats at the next GE - Plaid could feasibly get the other 10 which would be an all time high for them (if they can take Gower, the Cardiff seats - though the Lib Dems under Rodney Berman are rallying in the Welsh capital - and Arfon, Monmouth and Montgomeryshire.
 
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I do wonder if that's maybe because of our drinking age. I hate to be a 'The USA has redeemable and good features' guy; but the drinking age of 21 in bars and pubs; does give them a softer and more relaxed night out culture. I would do Rugby socials at university and I'd get through a £40 bottle of jameson every single night we had one. I wasn't even one of the crazy ones either. America doesn't seem to have it as bad.
A lot of that comes from there being no real value in being alive to those people other wise. They live for the weekend and get off their face when it arrives. I don't get it myself. I've never been one to drink to excess. I could drink at home as a kid if I wanted and there was no appeal to it. You had a sip, thought it tasted crap and got a better drink. It stopped drink being something special and I think that's the best way to do it. Drinking age doesn't matter, it's exposing kids to healthy drinking habits in adults and not making it taboo so they see it as a mile stone to abuse it.
 
Weed is a substance predominantly used by Muslims and mainly men, because they are, in their view, of clear mind when praying to Allah. For those unaware, Muslims don't drink because to be inebriated while praying to allah - when they touch the floor with their foreheads, it's to show they are the lowest they can be to show allah's glory in the highest - is the highest form of disrespect. To be pissed up while praying shows they have nothing but contempt for allah. So, the muslims smoke weed because they are clear minded when praying.

To ban weed, or to enforce the already law breaking act of smoking weed, would be hugely unpopular with the muslim community. There's no coincidence that sadiq khan is pushing to legalise weed for "the community" and "integration". It's so his paki mates can get stoned without question and can begin to deal without problems.
FWIW, pakis sell the best weed.

Be aware though, that not all stoners, crack heads, piss heads, gaming addicts and coke-heads are obvious. Not all stoners are slow-minded mongs, not all piss-heads have shakes and big red nose. Obviously food addicts can't hide that well, but everyone has a vice and not everyone is retarded enough to hide it.

Just like on the farms HIDE YOUR POWERLEVEL.
 
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