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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.
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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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Doesn't mention that "Laura" is a bloke
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Oh... interesting!

Some more items before Bedfordshire time:


Northumbria Police bans officers from displaying trans colours and scraps rainbow Pride car after landmark ruling:


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Labour urged to 'close all migrant hotels' after 'ignoring' concerns of Epping locals: 'It is disgusting!':


Archive: https://archive.ph/wip/RszH1


Three dead after explosion at Los Angeles police training centre as 'bomb squad deployed':


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Bradford 'crime boss' mum jailed after using children as drug runners in £14m international cocaine plot:


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Crystal Palace demand UEFA explanation over emails with Nottingham Forest and secret deadline extension:


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Taxi drivers caught dodging anti-rape gang safety rule brought in after Rotherham and Telford grooming scandals:


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Le b0wski said:
They would just approve planning permission to turn them into "full service co living studio apartments" or some other junk that amounts to running them like a hotel in all but name.
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Maybe, but Starmer knows that stating 'we're smashing the gangs' is having no positive impact on his ratings and people aren't buying his crap and aren't going to listen to him.

He's toasted himself - even if he says 'okay I will deploy the Royal Navy to shoot the bastards out of the water' that won't be enough for some people.

This is only being done IMO to stop another summer of riots, but Starmer's also forgetting that the angry Left are now making their own angry plans to topple him.

@teriyakiburns Now if that becomes mainstream public knowledge, a lot of holiday cottages will be torched and Starmer will be panicking until the Autumn.
 
Man I love this country so much. First they stop me using my cosy little shitposty internet drama forum, now I can't even make silly little images of the characters I love from dead franchises to make myself happy. I genuinely cannot remember a time where politics in this country have ever gotten better. I remember being a child and thinking wow these new laws sure do seem like they're coming from absolute retards who are just doing performative bullshit. And it has not changed at all in the 15 years since, though I guess technically it has changed, namely for the worse. I just want my dumb little ai generation website, I promise Kier, I will definitely not depict you as the massive faggot you are, just let me fucking do the things I enjoy you cunt. The 500th law passed to 'protect kids' yet they still refuse to deport (or preferably hang) convicted rapists, and I'm meant to believe they give a shit?
 
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Wes Streeting is projected to lose his seat even if Labour get the largest vote share at the next GE. Why? He's being crushed on all sides:

- Traditional Labour votes going to Reform
- Protest votes going elsewhere
- Disgrunted lefty Labour voters voting for Green
- He has a heavily-Muslim constituency (around 30% of his constituents are Muslim). Most of these will go to pro-Gaza independents.

And the piece de resistance? 16 - 18 year old voters will likely pivot to the hard left Corbyn party (bedfellows with the goatfuckers) or Greens as an alternative. It was a toss-up but this latest piece of legislation has actually ensured he loses the seat.
 
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So many of these illegals are allowed to remainon the basis they've a "right to a family life". They've been allowed to develop a "family life" by being put into communities and roam freely. They should be locked up in camps.

The default argument against camps is "they'll be violent places". If they're violent places it's because those there are violent, and why would we want violent and dangerous people here?

They could end this is they wanted to. They don't want to end it though. They hate you and they want to replace you.
 
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BongoMongo said:
So many of these illegals are allowed to remainon the basis they've a "right to a family life". They've been allowed to develop a "family life" by being put into communities and roam freely. They should be locked up in camps.

The default argument against camps is "they'll be violent places". If they're violent places it's because those there are violent, and why would we want violent and dangerous people here?

They could end this is they wanted to. They don't want to end it though. They hate you and they want to replace you.
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They’re giving leave to remain out like it was sweets. It’s a pain in the arse hiring as you get a decent slightly off white candidate with an otherwise English accent only to have to spend half a day finding whether visa status is and what it means for how they can work.

My tin foil hat thing is they’re doing this to bring in ID cards and they’re going to make it were it’s just easier to have them that well beg to have this one other bit of liberty taken away.

Before any of you start with “just hire white people”, you’re a retard and there’s a reason I wouldn’t employ you and it’s not down to your race.
 
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They’re giving leave to remain out like it was sweets. It’s a pain in the arse hiring as you get a decent slightly off white candidate with an otherwise English accent only to have to spend half a day finding whether visa status is and what it means for how they can work.

My tin foil hat thing is they’re doing this to bring in ID cards and they’re going to make it were it’s just easier to have them that well beg to have this one other bit of liberty taken away.

Before any of you start with “just hire white people”, you’re a retard and there’s a reason I wouldn’t employ you and it’s not down to your race.
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Cant you just ask upfront for proof of right to work and live here? I answered that in my application for my current job and then had to, after interview,provide documentary proof of it within 2 working days of the offer when I took my current job.
 
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Doesn't mention that "Laura" is a bloke.
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Laura Greenwood:
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Can't find any online references to being trans but did send the message to Rachel Riley of "suck my fat one". Laura Greenwood is listed as having the previous name "Rachel Moran". Prior convictions for arson, criminal damage, harassment and malicious communications. Has threatened people before. Couldn't find a video clip from the show.
 
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Made In Wales said:
Maybe, but Starmer knows that stating 'we're smashing the gangs' is having no positive impact on his ratings and people aren't buying his crap and aren't going to listen to him.
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Amin Yasister said:
Anyone know how many gangs have been smashed? I've not read of one being smashed since he first said this.
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They ARE the gangs.
 
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I have several questions:

  • How are the migrants convinced to come to developed nations where they get free hotel stays? And who convinces them to go anyways?
  • Why do Western European governments allow and "socially engineer" to accept unchecked mass immigration despite the surge in crime?
  • Why are there so many military aged men from Bomalia and Bomalistan? Do women there have like 5+ kids each?
  • Why is it that it seems it's always military aged men from Africa and the Middle East anyway?
  • How do migrants make it over to developed nations anyway, finally arriving by boat or planes?

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Kofi Drinka said:
They insert a paki into the system then the paki agrees the other pakis are depressed and need PIP while they work at their dad's shop.
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Rampant in all areas that they work.

People are getting very free with talking about this kind of thing the past year here in Ireland and I've got one of those faces that people like to confide in. Safe to assume the pattern matches in both states.

Stuff I've heard happening includes:

College bursary and college administered scholarships skewing massively ethnic when one of them was put in a key roll. Apparently it already was bad with a woke white in charge but now it's on red bull

a consultant who had to pay off a ethnic secretary to get rid of her because she was scheduling her co ethnics before whites with no regard to the medical urgency.

Loan officer promoted out of the role rather than let go because there was no avoiding the conclusion that the poorly performing loan book was primarily caused by loans to co ethnics that should never have been given a rubber stamp. That one came to light when the sheriff's arrived to repossess a restaurant fit out only to find the address was a vacant owned by a landlord in Pakistan

"Approved housing bodies" that the state is using to disburse housing funds in parallel to the usual county councils. They don't have to follow the usual "last on the list, last to get a house" rule and a few of them have been infected by ethnics so they favour their own. We had the phenomenon on a politics talkshow of an African glowingly telling everyone how happy she was to get a house so fast after arriving in Ireland a couple of years ago sat next to an Irishwoman who is rearing her kids in a hotel room for lack of a social house

The thing is, we all expect a bit of graft. I'd an aunt who used to be able to get a passport processed in a hurry if you were going on holidays but the ethnics are motivated by not so much as a love of their own as by a hatred of the native. They'll consider their co ethnics as good as family and act accordingly of course. A Muslim secretary to a surgeon might not push a black up the queue out of love, but they'll push a white right to the back out of maliciousness.

There are no good ones. Even the "good" Asians are only good in comparison
 
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You can claim benefits in the UK, then if a Dr signs you off for "aided convalescence" you are allowed to leave the country for up to 6 months while still been entitled to your full benefits.
After 6 months out of the country you don't have to pay tax to the UK, so you can fiddle that to get more money.

I wonder how many Dr Khans and Dr Abdul's are signing off their paki mates for sad brain, who then float off to pakistan and live in squalor on the tax payers hard earned cash?
 
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