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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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Honestly if push comes to shove, I think Baz and co would let football be cancelled. The protests over the Super League were so drastic that it spooked every team into reverting within a day out of fear of what would come next. It showed that deep down, no matter how many billions any football club is worth, local fans can still cause enough damage and I genuinely think that the league could have been postponed with enough anger.

Every year that passes football feels like it's getting further and further from the working classes. In an ideal world they'd host matches in empty stadiums with a VR audience so it can be successfully packaged to China or India. You could even change the slogans based on demographic and have chinks in the audience when broadcasting to China or Pakis in the audience when broadcasting to Leicester. Modern football actively hates its own fans so much that they'll likely use the Liverpool parade attack as an excuse to stop title celebrations.

If we caused riots that shut down football for a year then it's not our problem, sure Chelsea or City or Liverpool would have financial problems and some teams would go bust, but another club would just pop up as a phoenix club and things would continue again. Wimbledon came back from the ashes and they're a team with a fraction of the support of a random PL club. While tons of fans are "X 'til I die" if the choice is football in 25-26 or Abdul getting sent home then we'll have to start brushing up on our German ready to watch the Bundesliga.
 
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Remember back in ye olde days. Back before this scam we are told is 'democracy'. Back when treasonous autocrats would be shoved in a metal cage and hung from the steeple of the local church until they rotted to death from the inside out, when they would be crucified and burnt alive? What's that saying about history repeating itself again?

Looking forward to a lifetime of f5ing through tor exit nodes to avoid cloudflare's bullshit. Especially with tor being annoying and not letting me have two instances open at the same time. That's fun. Culture, already being raped, heritage, already being raped, wives, already being raped, now your privacy, your hobbies, your interests, your ability to use the internet, your fucking ability to talk. Glad we beat those facsists in germany huh? I wonder if there's a word for a government that will prosecute people for differing opinions regardless of how normal or objectively factual they are, a word for a government that takes away your ability to defend yourself or to protest, where the state controls all the media you can view, where it designates certain things as degenerative for personal reasons, one that is racist against certain groups of citizens because they were born in the north or white, where they will give out extreme sentences in kangaroo courts while letting people convicted of owning and distributing child pornography walk without any jail time and a government that views itself as superior to the rest of the world and would say do something as retarded as saying the entirety of the internet is under their jurisdiction. Wonder if there's a word for that. Yea, the word fascist has been overused to the point of being meaningless online, but is there any better word to describe our government?
 
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Long and sneaky said:
It's not a single word, but how about 'not fit for purpose'.
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'not fit for purpose' is what you call a shitty old car that can't drive up an incline of more than 10 degrees, not a car with a landmine for a seat. 'unfit to rule' is people like truss and boris, people that are inept and shit at their job, that's what it means to me. Not people who actively seek to destroy the country.
 
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'not fit for purpose' is what you call a shitty old car that can't drive up an incline of more than 10 degrees, not a car with a landmine for a seat. 'unfit to rule' is people like truss and boris, people that are inept and shit at their job, that's what it means to me. Not people who actively seek to destroy the country.
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Those people are Traitors and the so-called head of State is chief among them. That bloated, cancer-ridden, sausage fingered cunt has been meddling and poking about, writing his little letters and being a Muslim for years. And now he's ascended to the throne he's deep throating Muslim cock and has defied his late mother's express wishes that his mistress be only his Queen Consort.

The country is a binfire. The king was recorded telling his mistress he wished he was a tampon so she could stuff him inside her. The body rots from the head down. The sooner he's gone the better. At least we won't have a Muslim fellating arsehole in charge.
 
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BongoMongo said:
The king was recorded telling his mistress he wished he was a tampon so she could stuff him inside her.
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This is abnormal? I thought everyone wanted to be their mistresses tampon. It's 2025 bigot!

On the talk of tech security. Which phone wallet is the most secure and has the least intrusive sign up? I want to put some money on my phone to keep as a back up but I don't want to hand over identity images and crap. One I looked at wanted pictures of my passport. I don't want my passport to leak in a data breach so that one is out. I want to put my card in to load cash onto the phone and be done with it. I would ask in the tech subforum but the UK and US won't have the same best providers.
 
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On the talk of tech security. Which phone wallet is the most secure and has the least intrusive sign up? I want to put some money on my phone to keep as a back up but I don't want to hand over identity images and crap.
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You won't find one. They're all required to "prove" your identity by the financial services regulations.
 
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On the talk of tech security. Which phone wallet is the most secure and has the least intrusive sign up? I want to put some money on my phone to keep as a back up but I don't want to hand over identity images and crap. One I looked at wanted pictures of my passport. I don't want my passport to leak in a data breach so that one is out. I want to put my card in to load cash onto the phone and be done with it. I would ask in the tech subforum but the UK and US won't have the same best providers.
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There is no such thing as 'secure' when it comes to technology. If you are worried about your account being hacked then you do not make an account. It's as simple as that. Some services might be better than others for security but none of them will be secure. If you want a backup then stick £100 in your sock, that's the best you'll get.

But man I fucking hate this tech privacy bullshit. I try to log into a single fucking website. Cycle through about 20 tor exit nodes before it finally lands on one that isn't blocked. Then I have to go and sign in, easy enough. Click the sign in button, exit node's changed lol have fun refreshing. It gets one. Thing's fucked up and the website doesn't load properly. More f5ing, yay! Then I get it to load properly. Sign in pops up and works. I was kinda lazy and just used the sign in with google prompt when I made the account. Ok so I now have to sign in through google. I press the button to do so. Doesn't fucking work because the exit node has expired and the new one that the login redirect is being sent to is blocked. I go just straight to google and log in. I type my exact email address and the fucking 15 character long password. Get hit with a captcha to which I am told I failed because apparently I don't know what a bike looks like? So I refresh fucking again. Finally works. Lets me enter my password. But that's not all. I now have to confirm it was me, because apparently my fucking password isn't enough. So I now have to open gmail on my phone specifically to confirm it was me. Then it lets me log in. And then I can finally go through one last f5 session on the website but specifically on the / login part and finally get in. And it took about half an hour. I use this website every day. I will now have to do that exact ritual every single day just to use the website because cloudflare are faggots. It would be much easier if I could bypass google and their bullshit. But I can't. I cannot migrate the account from a google login using my google account to a login using an account on the website that just happens to be a gmail account. And that is fucking one single website.

Twitter. Twitter just doesn't fucking let me on. It simply refuses to let me even try to log in. For what reason? God only knows. Same for my email account. Blocked from attempting to log in for an entire day on the account in general because I apparently clicked too many wrong squares on a fucking bike or some shit. It's fucking insane that of all the websites somehow this dumb little forum with what like 5000 users can deal with tor better than one of the largest social media platforms can. Why the fuck does twitter block me for 'suspicious' activity when it can't even be bothered to update the onion link. Yes it probably fucking is suspicious but maybe if you lazy cunts did something that apparently a fucking autistic dog can manage to do in a day then maybe it wouldn't be a problem but apparently that's too much to ask of a guy that apparently gives a shit about free speech. I fucking hate this country I fucking hate technology I fucking hate corporations I fucking hate the internet I am off to go live in the woods and pick mushrooms and fucking behead anyone that comes near me with a fucking claymore or some shit. Fucking absolute retard world I swear. Sure I can use a vpn but they're all shit and snakeoil anyway. Yea I can bypass the block with a vpn. But I can't fucking select what that does. I can't tell it to filter shit. I don't care if the government sees the shit I watch on youtube, I would prefer if they did rather than it all being tor traffic. At least that way it might look less suspicious. But no. Can't do that. Have to send everything through a vpn if I want to use twitter at the same time. I'd just make a new account to use on here and fuck off the old one entirely but I think the shit I post is so niche that it wouldn't matter anyway and honestly I already have an alt twitter account for this site and it gets fucking blocked half the times I try to log in to it. I just fucking hate technology holy shit. And I thought my washing machine was a cunt. If I combined the fucking ludditic hatred from every single time I checked my washing 3 hours after a supposed 2:30 long cycle only to see that it is still telling me there's an hour left, if I combined that it still would not be enough to describe how much I hate technology and the government and last time the fucking thing took twice as long as it said it would and made me stay up until about fucking 3am when I needed to be awake at 6am just so I could put the clothes in the tumble so I had something to wear when I had to leave in three fucking hours and honestly it's a good job that the sledgehammer is kept away from the washing machine.
 
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Check it hasn't got the gay "delay start" option enabled. That thing is a bastard. Also unless you are a mad diseased cunt, normal clothes soiling will wash out at 40 or 50 degrees and you can run those cycles at about an hour 20 mins. Two hours thirty is "the nappy exploded with shit" territory.
 
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isalaide said:
Check it hasn't got the gay "delay start" option enabled. That thing is a bastard. Also unless you are a mad diseased cunt, normal clothes soiling will wash out at 40 or 50 degrees and you can run those cycles at about an hour 20 mins. Two hours thirty is "the nappy exploded with shit" territory.
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No it's got 'smart wash' technology. ie it will change the length of the cycle based on how dirty the water is and how heavy the load is or some completely arbitrary pseudoscience like that. It is just not actually even remotely smart because it doesn't fucking calculate that in a way that I can see. It doesn't tell you how long it will take, it lets the wash cycle finish but then just gets stuck on 00:00 remaining instead of telling me how long it will take. Sometimes it just decides that it needs to take an extra half hour. And no most of the time it is around the two hour mark, jeans especially get fucking filthy so. A lot of that time is just getting stuck on spin anyway, it will genuinely spend sometimes up to an hour where it just sits there, does nothing for maybe 30 seconds, then spins at full speed for 10 seconds, then stops, waits another 30, repeat that cycle for a fucking hour. I have tried to stop it when it's doing that but if I press the abort button it dumps the contents of the pipes onto the clothes and soaks them for some reason. It's dumb and it's fucking retarded but it starts when I tell it to and it still technically works so replacing it seems like a waste.
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Even if you found out about my totally secret diaper kink I wouldn't fucking put that in the washing machine, especially not with all my other clothes. Idk last time I checked you're meant to throw them away.
 
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Made In Wales said:
I hope I'm wrong, but I can't shake off the feeling that we are close to what could be a Black Swan incident or incidents which will shock the nation and may even lead to a mass swing of public opinion against the current Government which they will not be able to counter.
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The Manchester Arena bombing (2017) and the Stockport knife incident (2024) had very different public responses.

If something horrible happens this year, as has happened many years this past decade, the backlash will be huge.

I don't know what counts as an 'unlnowm unlnown' or a 'black swan'.
I just won't be surprised if everything suddenly kicks off this summer. I don't expect last summer's harsh sentences for Twitter tweets to be a deterrent.
I see the term 'tinderbox' used often. That's probably where we are.
 
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The internet feels so different today, like a "This is the end" type of feeling.

The only plus side I can think of that will come from the absolute sanitation of the internet is that some Bomalian is going to go on their free iPhone issued by the UK Government and realise he can't browse porn tonight so will go out and sink his cock into a 12 year old schoolgirl, ensuring that we get our Summer of Love 2.0
 
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Shh, i like not having to use TOR or vpn's
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Be careful and learn some OPSEC. Your ISP is legally required to hand over any and all of your Internet activity over to police, and police follow "hate-speech" laws which are set by the Conservatives and Labour.

Lucy Connolly had her life ruined and over 3 years in prison because she wrote:
Mass deportation now, set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards for all I care, while you're at it take the treacherous government & politicians with them.
I feel physically sick knowing what these families will now have to endure.
If that makes me racist, so be it.
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If there's anything in your post history that's even nearly at the same level as that then you could lose 2 - 5 years of your life in a prison as well as having a permanent criminal record because you wrote some words on the Internet.
 
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A 'Black Swan' refers to an event that usually hasn't happened before, is unexpected and therefore difficult to prepare against. In the course of time, however, and with hindsight it's then easier to see how it could have been avoided.

The biggest 'Black Swan' event of my lifetime happened on September 11th 2001 - nobody (at least 99.9% of us) knew what was coming on that fateful day when the Twin Towers were struck.

Rumsfeld's comments about 'unknown unknowns' means that we don't know what the event will be nor where it will take place.

I have my suspicions that it'll be one of the Lefty groups at a major Summer event - perhaps Notting Hill or at the Community Shield match at Wembley Stadium or perhaps even at the Reading or Leeds festivals.

Even if it's a bomb hoax, it'll scare people into panicking.

We're definitely at the Tinderbox stage.

Some news whilst I have some free time on an otherwise hectic day...


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Samaritans to close more than 100 branches:





The debate: Will the new rules for pornography sites do more harm than good?





Rachel Reeves must raise taxes or scrap state pension triple lock to save economy, warns IMF:





Asylum seekers who refuse to move from hotels will risk losing their housing as Labour aims to 'restore order':





Jeremy Corbyn's hard-left 'Your Party' sign-ups overtake Nigel Farage's Reform UK membership:





'Get serious!' Business Secretary issues scathing attack on Labour left amid 'daft' calls for wealth tax:





Conor McGregor's pub engulfed in flames as firefighters battle to put it out:



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Fraudster jailed after stealing £300k from charity and boasting it was 'easy money':





Revolutionary Communist Party coordinator signs up to Jeremy Corbyn’s party calling for ‘militant socialist programme’:





Reform UK council leader says police should be able to 'shoot people if necessary' as party launches crime crackdown:





Sadiq Khan splurges £500k on 'rotting turnip' slavery memorial just days after Met Police plunges into 'funding crisis'





Reform scraps £7.5million net zero EV pledge as councillors take aim at Labour - 'Fund us properly!'


 
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