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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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#VEGANsausageroll thanks Greggs

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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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The hype got me like #Greggs #Veganuary


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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.

 

[>IMPLYING]

Corbyn put out a statement.

So yeah everyone in that alliance is a Pro-Gaza Muslim. I'm curious to see if he's going to be the sole white dude in a position of leadership. Well, maybe he'll be accompanied by some overweight white woman (the image fits in my head) but the deck's already stacked against it in getting any Anti-immigrant, pro-Labour (Big Gaz - for gibs on principle) voters going their way.

Yank farmers seem to be telling us either that we should've voted better (every party is pro-immigration except for whatever Nige's current grift party is) or decide to turn the UK into Mogadishu and start murdering our politicians.

On the contrary, the American's complete ignorance to our domestic situation makes me hopeful. Like, that random Waterlooville protest got a 1000 people turning out, which is already a far larger show of support for a particular policy than the American-right can muster, even on a good day. Hell, only 2 thousand people went to the capitol on January 6th 2020 and the people there believed the election was stolen. Their assessment of the British people is entirely off-base and outright wrong and far too many people are willing to accept it. The general level of ignorance they have towards our domestic situation means that their intentionally dour, "no-way-out" view of our country is based out of pure dislike for us and shouldn't be accepted, and it especially shouldn't replace what you can see with your own eyes and ears.

Remember this: Lowering legal immigration isn't even in their political discourse. It's not anywhere prominent within their leadership, and legal immigration in the millions is perfectly fine with their politicians. Their democracy is more easy to subvert than ours by a country mile (Lobbying, party leadership doesn't need to be held by an elected representative) and their partisan judiciary has more power than the president. There is more hope in the long-term for our country than the Americans are willing to admit.

The mere fact a third party is (and has demonstrated itself capable of such) toppling our version of the uniparty (Labour/Tory paradigm) should give you hope regardless of the fact Farage is leading it. Remember: whilst he is ultimately a grifter, the fact he's parroting remigration platitudes (look earlier in the thread) and mass deportation of illegals, when he was of the opposite stance less than a year ago, means he can see what's growing in popularity amongst the electorate and Reform's base, and if he sees it, then that means your fellow countrymen are probably more likeminded with you than you think, and in massive numbers too.

The main torture we all have to go through at the moment though is we have to wait, but at least the rhetoric on immigration ramps up every two months.

 

[Crunkle]

Corbyn put out a statement.

How can he look at his name at the bottom of that letter and not feel out of place in that list of names?

Not even the smallest, remotest sensation that he might be in with the wrong crowd?

I suppose you can't expect much from a man who willingly fucked Diane Abbott.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

I suppose you can't expect much from a man who willingly fucked Diane Abbott.

Maybe Zara Sultana is noshing him off, and that's why he's doing it? I kid, the reason he's doing it is because like all devout commies; he has brain worms that drive him to do insane evil shit.

 

[BongoMongo]

Cheers for the mental image of Abbott fucking. I just sicked up the Fuse bar (remember those?!) a friend bought me back from Foreignistan. Ta very much.

 

[Clem Fandango]

As for these fuckers who say "growth," for me it's a red flag. There is no such thing as forever growth; it's impossible. EVERYTHING in the universe has a limit.

I sometimes try that tack with lefty types who bring up "sustainability". I'll ask them what is the sustainable population of the UK. 100m? 200m? 300m? Go on, put a number on it.

In social situations they usually make their excuses and leave but that's fine because it means I've won the argument.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Corbyn put out a statement.

There is a HUGE appetite for change.
That's why they will vote for me, the guy that is not a change. Idk just a bit retarded to say you are the face of change when you have been an mp for 3 decades mate. They want change that's why they will vote for the same labour leader from a few years ago?

Also fucking hell those names. Yea let me vote for sultana, hear she's going to lower taxes on raisins too. Then there's fucking Hussein which honestly after Saddam surely you'd just get that changed? Isn't that like going to Germany and finding people still use Hitler as their last name? The fourth guy I read his first name as 'a nob' and he probably is. We've then got fucking Mohamed too, thought he was meant to be off in muslim heaven with his 72 little girl virgins or something but no he's running for mp instead. And to round it off there's Adam socket which I'm fairly sure is what my lamps use for the bubs, maybe it's just a middle aged version to the oap aged Alan key.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

As a loyal Kang voter, I challenge you to a duel. Name your weapon.

Traffic cones it is!

 

[Hoi Polloi]

The mere fact a third party is (and has demonstrated itself capable of such) toppling our version of the uniparty (Labour/Tory paradigm) should give you hope regardless of the fact Farage is leading it. Remember: whilst he is ultimately a grifter, the fact he's parroting remigration platitudes (look earlier in the thread) and mass deportation of illegals, when he was of the opposite stance less than a year ago, means he can see what's growing in popularity amongst the electorate and Reform's base, and if he sees it, then that means your fellow countrymen are probably more likeminded with you than you think, and in massive numbers too.

Couldn't quote your whole post but thank you for the Hope, genuinely. This post made me feel a lot better.

I'm just particularly sick of amerifats living in an unbelievably cucked country, the healthcare-industrial complex, Israel shadoe government, and lobby-rape being major fucking stains. I obviously envy the free speech they have weighed against ours, but on the other hand I can simply choose not to say nigger or TTD in a publicly identifiable way, I can't choose if I tumble on the stairs and break my fucking leg costing me thousands or get drafted to die for Jews in the desert.

Perhaps I'm naïve but I feel that there's a lot of schaudenfreude coming from the US when really what's happening here should be a canary for them that'd prompt solidarity. Obviously there are tons of fucking cucks in the UK but certainly no more than the US, yet the perspective seems to be that we're all uniquely meek soyboys showing our bellies to the paki menace.

I have extremely left political leanings but the co-option of "the left" by faggots, troons, and brown importing neolibs is genuinely pushing me towards voting reform, as much as I'd leap at the opportunity to glass Farage for being a grifting cunt. Marx wrote at length about how much unchecked migration is at odds with lefitist ideology and yet so called "socialists" welcome cultural rape and degradation of bargaining power by immigrants with open arms.

I'll be candid, I'm drunkposting.

EDIT: Just tacking some shit on because I'm in the mood to complain, I'm a scientist so I work with a lot of legal, skilled European immigrants. They still annoy the absolute fuck out of me because all they want to discuss over lunch or at the pub is epic Trump - or worse - Farage dunks. Perhaps they have career skills but they're utterly lacking in banter. The next German employee I get is being utterly ignored.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

I have extremely left political leanings but the co-option of "the left" by faggots, troons, and brown importing neolibs is genuinely pushing me towards voting reform, as much as I'd leap at the opportunity to glass Farage for being a grifting cunt.

You are far, far, far from the only one. I'm in the same boat. I should be here thanking god for a labour government. The political views I have would put me in the left wing, should perfectly land in labour's courtyard. Should. The problem is that the left wing in England are not fucking left wing, labour are not normal lefties they are hard left, the fucking tories are the left wing party over here. Even they are too liberal for me at this point too. I do not have anyone to represent me, I have no party to vote for, so I'll stick the vote in for reform because at least they have fucking ears and actually seem to give a shit. Never liked Nigel, probably never will. But welcome to democracy, you don't get to 'like' your leaders, you get a handful of upperclass reprobates and have to pick which faggot you hate the least and you have no way to change any of that because the entire system is a scam designed to quell the public's hatred and anger so that the people who would have been feudal lords can continue to be just that aside from now instead of fucking beheading them we put a silly little piece of paper in a box and kid ourselves into thinking that will do anything.

Dad grew up stout labour voter. Now constantly goes off about how the pakis are ruining the country. Mother's worried about all the misogyny from the combination of muslims and trannies, gf says that she felt safer as a woman in the country that needs 'women only' train cars and hardware level anti creepshot phone technology. Most of the people I work with are also prime labour voters, the typical blue collar northerner beaten down hoping that some form of equality might bring any form of life back to here, yet all we get is more people dumped on us when jobs are already scarce enough. I don't know if the saying of 'you get more conservative as you age' is actually true, but I sure as fuck do hate the government more and more as I age and considering that both of the main parties are left leaning I guess it is technically true. Labour used to be for the working man, used to be for the poor and the downtrodden of society, as in the entire fucking city I live in. But nope, not anymore. Instead of helping people like us they have decided to import more of us aside from now they're all brown instead. They have not helped us, they have not helped the needy, they have not reduced the number of people neglected and forgotten by society, they have imported boat upon boat of them. So have the tories but at least they never gave us dogshit about being for the people. I would take maggie over these treasoners.

 

[BongoMongo]

@Hoi Polloi : naw pal I agree with you. I also think a lot of Ameritards are salty that their coof mandates went so far. People being sacked, refused access to college, etc.

They like to harp on about their freedom but what's point of having guns if not to defend yourself from someone trying to do harm?

I never tested, never wore a mask,never had the shots. Never got sacked from my job or refused education.

 

[Hoi Polloi]

The political views I have would put me in the left wing, should perfectly land in labour's courtyard. Should.

I've voted Labour in every election except the last (tactical Lib Dem because the Tories truly had to go). I've always considered them the lesser of two evils but - much like you I think - not for the reason most reluctant Labour voters do. Most lefties dislike Labour for not sucking enough girlcock or letting Muslims rape us/giving taxpayer money to Palestine.

In my mind, an actually competent left wing party is a pretty simple concept, they exist to prevent a return to feudalism, serfism, and try to dismantle usury and the rentier class. In real terms that largely means nationalisation of most public amenities/(liveable) property and staunch protection of workers.

In recent years - I'm not even sure when this shite began but probably post-9/11 - it seems to mean kowtowing to faggots, trannies, and immigrants. It's capitalism with a rainbow twist.

Unfortunately even the ostensibly hard-left factions of Labour are more preoccupied with Jews vs Desert Niggers and troons to actually bother implementing genuine leftist policy, with brief recesses to wash the feet of bulbheaded/pyjama-wearing scrounging future doctors (foreigners).

There is legitimately no voting bloc for anyone who actually understands or cares about left wing principles, it's been entirely replaced by retarded virtue signalling brown girlcock lovers. I have to catch myself getting angry when people start bitching about "muh leftists" spouting cucked neoliberal policy, until I remember that no - that's essentially what the "left wing" is now; not just in Britain but all across the west. Most people I'm supposed to agree with/identify with politically are malingering retards, glomming on to an ideology they barely understand because they think it excuses being a workshy degenerate.

 

[ProximityThrill]

Lucy Connolly got more than double this for mean words btw

 

[Kofi Drinka]

There is legitimately no voting bloc for anyone who actually understands or cares about left wing principles, it's been entirely replaced by retarded virtue signalling brown girlcock lovers. I have to catch myself getting angry when people start bitching about "muh leftists" spouting cucked neoliberal policy, until I remember that no - that's essentially what the "left wing" is now; not just in Britain but all across the west. Most people I'm supposed to agree with/identify with politically are malingering retards, glomming on to an ideology they barely understand because they think it excuses being a workshy degenerate.

Neo liberalism and the uni party is the natural conclusion of "left wing" politics. The things you talk about were brought in often by unions and lawyers trying to make everyone 'equal'. Voting for the uniparty is basically the same thing but you have to be exceptional to have voted for labour in the last decade. You are voting for brown people to have more power and that's it.

Lefties need to look at the history of the shit we're in now and see how much of it grew out of leftism. You always hear "late stage capitalism" and "line must go up" but no one wants to look at the foundation for this creep. It was always left wing groups with power creep and a slippery slope and any return to "British leftism" will result in the same place again.

Lucy Connolly got more than double this for mean words btw

This should inspire some more Southport situations. Sexually assault a mong after being here a week and they give you another home, food and rent.

I bet if you polled the general public on this situation an overwhelming majority would agree with capital punishment. Any migrant committing a sex crime gets the noose and the public would love it.

 

[Hoi Polloi]

Neo liberalism and the uni party is the natural conclusion of "left wing" politics. The things you talk about were brought in often by unions and lawyers trying to make everyone 'equal'. Voting for the uniparty is basically the same thing but you have to be exceptional to have voted for labour in the last decade. You are voting for brown people to have more power and that's it.

Lefties need to look at the history of the shit we're in now and see how much of it grew out of leftism. You always hear "late stage capitalism" and "line must go up" but no one wants to look at the foundation for this creep. It was always left wing groups with power creep and a slippery slope and any return to "British leftism" will result in the same place again.


This should inspire some more Southport situations. Sexually assault a mong after being here a week and they give you another home, food and rent.

I bet if you polled the general public on this situation an overwhelming majority would agree with capital punishment. Any migrant committing a sex crime gets the noose and the public would love it.

I don't want to accuse you of misunderstanding my posts but I'd like to reiterate that I very much feel neoliberalism is the problem that has fucked this country as a result of the uniparty. I simply felt until now that Labour were better - largely because of bias from the Tories being in charge (though they're clearly the shittier of the two, at least Labour don't pretend they aren't flooding us with brownoids).

Unions are based and if you don't understand why then you're beyond help.

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The problem unfortunately with having a modern judiciary reliant on due process and lacking in corporal punishment is that it's just as attractive as our retarded policy on migrant gibs. If you're a migrant monging around in a shitty hotel you can rape to your heart's content until you get caught and moved into similarly amenable lodging in a prison instead. You'd have to be a retard to advocate for sharia law, but if we implemented it just for the muzzies that come over there'd be significantly less misbehaving.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Lucy Connolly got more than double this for mean words btw

Why are we keeping him here? Personally I'd say why are we keeping him alive period, but just fucking ship him off to whatever shithole he came from and let them stone him or whatever I do not care, just get this subhuman out of my fucking country. My fucking wages should not go to housing foreign rapists. The fact that a person can just force their way into our country, rape our children and be met with a frankly laughable sentence and then probably let back into society is astonishingly retarded. He deserves closer to 14 years not months. I would say I hope at least the inmates can deal the justice that is deserved but they'd probably congratulate him and ask him for tips.

Funny you'd mention a Connolly there. I know a Connolly that fought not just against the bullshit of the English government but also for an actually pro worker cause. If only that area is also a volatile tinderbox ready to birth another person just like him. Hmmmmm.

 

[Tragon Dirtle]

Do the white lefties In the party not realize they are useful idiots for islamists.

Corbyn has been pro-Palestine since the 2000s they know what they're signing up for. He officially supported Palestine to be a state in 2003. They think being on the right side of Palestine vs Israel will pay off for them when it won't.

Kemi Badenoch has said she no longer considers herself Nigerian and does not possess a Nigerian passport.

I really hate all these people that think because in their mind they "identify" or believe they are something, that it in some way alters the reality of the situation for everyone else. The more insistant they are, the less likely I am to believe them. The more someone says "I'm one of your gang" the more likely I am to say "no you're fucking not".
Do they not understand the only way you belong is by being accepted by the established members of the group, not by dictating to the group that you are one of them. I think this is sneaky by Badenoch, by telling us what she doesn't identify as - being Nigerian, the implication is that she has to be English.

This is manipulative wording, because it's actually the same as last time when she was talking about how she was proud of her heritage: she said I don't identify as Nigerian, I identify as Yoruba. So you're encouraged to fill in blank with British but it's still just Yoruba. They're the biggest tribe that used to have an empire during the slave trade era - it's like saying I don't identify as British I identify as Norman - and they're the ones immigrating here because they've got the money to afford moving. And a British passport is still just more valuable than a nigerian one. It's only been 7 months since she was talking about how proud she was to be Yoruba.

https://thestreetjournal.org/im-yoruba-not-nigerian-kemi-badenoch-sparks-controversy-over-identity-dispute/?__cf_chl_rt_tk=CGHbjJqu8mwFz4O8K8Mq644Vk5XGBLTJFVyuwYBBkN4-1754102205-1.0.1.1-25DHwOHatIUqicHY13kkOMNBENVMONd06AS8Bg8KKOk

Neo liberalism and the uni party is the natural conclusion of "left wing" politics. The things you talk about were brought in often by unions and lawyers trying to make everyone 'equal'. Voting for the uniparty is basically the same thing but you have to be exceptional to have voted for labour in the last decade. You are voting for brown people to have more power and that's it.

You can't talk about a uniparty and then act like there are separate sides and only one side is to blame, it literally means you either don't know what uniparty means or don't actually believe it.

Left and Right come from the 18th century pre-revolution France where politicians who supported the worker class sat on the Left of the sun king, and politicians who supported the mercantile class sat on the Right. It wasn't a consistent political position, you moved depending on the issue. The politicians themselves were always the aristocracy, but the revolution meant that things had to change to allow social mobility upwards through the civil service. The uniparty isn't a communist thing it's a monarchic one.

And again it was the tories, headed by literal aristocrats, that brought in all those immigrants over the previous 14 years. So it was not labour bringing in the brown people over the last decade. It's been 7 fucking months - weirdly, the exact same time period for Kemi to pretend she isn't Nigerian any more. It's labour having to chase Reform that's made her have to switch.

 

[ProximityThrill]

We did this to ourselves by electing these people and every single election cycle, we were fooled again into trusting the latest charlatan. We are all to blame because we were all too meek and trusting.

The ‘Boris will be ARE Trump, ‘e will!’ stuff is almost embarrassing to look back on, although the man fooled most of the electorate. He turned out to be probably the biggest traitor in UK history.

 

[Eddie Riggs]

The ‘Boris will be ARE Trump, ‘e will!’ stuff is almost embarrassing to look back on, although the man fooled most of the electorate. He turned out to be probably the biggest traitor in UK history.

Well he WAS descended from a turkroach

 

[mindlessobserver]

Rohan has entered Gondor, and the Roach Lord is there to signal boost.

This really is wild. The foreign colony, ruled by a corpse king through a worm tongue suddenly reinvigorated and waking up to all the enemies around it and turning its attention to the ancient motherland with its old and forgotten allegiances.

Tolkien really hated allegory...

 

[BongoMongo]

There is a HUGE appetite for change.
That's why they will vote for me, the guy that is not a change. Idk just a bit retarded to say you are the face of change when you have been an mp for 3 decades mate. They want change that's why they will vote for the same labour leader from a few years ago?

Also fucking hell those names. Yea let me vote for sultana, hear she's going to lower taxes on raisins too. Then there's fucking Hussein which honestly after Saddam surely you'd just get that changed? Isn't that like going to Germany and finding people still use Hitler as their last name? The fourth guy I read his first name as 'a nob' and he probably is. We've then got fucking Mohamed too, thought he was meant to be off in muslim heaven with his 72 little girl virgins or something but no he's running for mp instead. And to round it off there's Adam socket which I'm fairly sure is what my lamps use for the bubs, maybe it's just a middle aged version to the oap aged Alan key.

The number of people I speak to who say something has to give is unreal. I think I have one of those faces that says "tell me your most controversial opinion". That, and I like to do nice things.

You've got a kid that's behaving beautifully or you're doing an excellent job of parenting? I'm gonna tell you. You need the door held open? No problem? You're rushing for the bus along the road? I got you, I will stand half on and half off to hold it so long as you're hurrying.

Little kindnesses done for my fellow white Brits seem to go a long way. Nothing big or onerous, just the little shit that keeps us together as a society. I hope that in listening and telling them "no, you are right and you're perfectly reasonable" helps them see they are.

Beyond that I have no idea how else to weather the coming storm. To quote a great man, "I don't know what happens now, I am too scared to close my eyes".I am too scared. However if I manage to brighten another persons day then I am happy.

I promise I'm not drunk posting though I work nights and I read once lack of sleep can cause same effects as being drunk. Is that the same thing?