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https://news.sky.com/story/row-over-new-greggs-vegan-sausage-rolls-heats-up-11597679 (https://archive.ph/5Ba6o)

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.

 

[FedPostalService]

I worked with a lad a few years ago that got £12 a game from some community club that had an large local following, who paid their players nominal amounts just to boast that they were semi-professional.

By woman footballer logic he should be demanding £200k a week from the premier league.

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

A few years back I was over in Ireland at the same time as the Gaelic football final was on. There were flags everywhere as one of the teams was local to where I was, Croke Park was filled to capacity (north of 80000 people), and the players didn't get paid a single penny because it's still an amateur game. Makes you think, maybe gouging our working class to make millionaires out of illiterate Africans and ungrateful lezzers wasn't the right way for association football.

 

[redlenses2112]

Anything interesting happening with Britcuck polidicks as of lately? Keir Starmer any closer to getting toppled? I did hear about Farage supposedly saying mean things at school when younger, but I don't personally find it too much of a big deal, even from a slight amusement perspective.

 

[Turquoise]

If women's "professional" football doesn't make enough money to be viable, it's not professional football. Bunch of entitled dykey amateurs.

Because of systemic institutional systems of bias.

Seriously though, if they want men to watch soccer, they're gonna need pitchside microphones and incentives for making orgasm noises like do in the tennis.

 

[Made In Wales]

Anything interesting happening with Britcuck polidicks as of lately? Keir Starmer any closer to getting toppled? I did hear about Farage supposedly saying mean things at school when younger, but I don't personally find it too much of a big deal, even from a slight amusement perspective.

Apparently he did the 'Hitler salute' - something which even the original source now denies ever happening, or that he campaigned for Enoch Powell (which has also been proven as false).

The more crazy the accusations, the better Reform UK seem to do.

Let's talk about the crazy shit Starmer, Badenoch, Davey etc. got up to as kids shall we?

Or the journey behind Communist lines that Stalin Starmer took in the 1980s...

Hmm...

 

[Unyielding Stupidity]

We are at war with illegal immigration. We have always been at war with illegal immigration.

By the way, lads, they’re only at war with the boat monkeys so the can distract you from bringing the entire of Bangladesh in legally and giving them leave to remain for hanging about.

I personally think it's more because Labour's finally realized that the new arrivals and their future spawn are no longer going to vote for them. They'll now either vote for the Greens because they're promising the most free handouts, or they'll vote for 'Independents' that are just Islamist candidates.

 

[Made In Wales]

I personally think it's more because Labour's finally realized that the new arrivals and their future spawn are no longer going to vote for them. They'll now either vote for the Greens because they're promising the most free handouts, or they'll vote for 'Independents' that are just Islamist candidates.

That's pretty much what will happen, though the Lib Dems will still want their 15 seconds of fame and the Welsh and Scottish Nationalists will still exist.

In Wales, it's a straight shoot-out between Reform UK and Plaid for seats at the Senedd Elections next Summer and the Lib Dems are only forecast to possibly do well in the two new Cardiff seats (Cardiff & Taff Vale and Cardiff & Penarth) only because Rodney Berman is a semi-decent human and Plaid are putting Umbongocongomongo's in what they think will be 'safe seats'.

The SNP will not recover for a long time after Sturgeon - she wrecked them and, despite there being a lot of Independence backers north of Hadrian's wall, they won't be getting a 2015 moment for a very long time - probably not in our lifetimes.

Reform UK have benefited from the death knell of the Tories and also partly from Labour's now terminal demise, and the smart money is on them winning the next GE. Thereafter, the political landscape will have changed forever - no 'Socialist Party' and no 'Conservatives' with red and blue vanished.

In time, the same thing will happen to the Liberals and Greens - they too will become totally arrogant, proud, pompous and retarded and then their voter base will bleed out somewhere else.

 

[FedPostalService]

The SNP will not recover for a long time after Sturgeon - she wrecked them and, despite there being a lot of Independence backers north of Hadrian's wall, they won't be getting a 2015 moment for a very long time - probably not in our lifetimes.

The SNP will benefit from not being English. Scottishness is a disease which attacks the brain. No matter how much the SNP destroys Scotland a large number of people will vote for it because they are not English. Even when it was ran by a Pakistani closet Islamist they voted for it.

If Reform want to win big in Scotland they need a big Scottish personality in the party to lead things north of the boarder.

That won’t be allowed to happen as Farage has turned is tall poppy syndrome into his defining trait.

 

[anklyscr]

Guardian says noticing is now racist.

https://archive.ph/CkW8F

If it was up to me I’d deport everyone in these NGOs /charities to some shithole like India , Somalia or pakistan

Police disclosing suspects’ ethnicity is fuelling prejudice, say campaigners​

The police’s decision to reveal the ethnicity and nationality of suspects in high-profile crimes has had a “devastating effect” and is helping to spread prejudice, racial justice campaigners say.
The warning comes from the Runnymede Trust and 50 other groups demanding that the policy in England and Wales is scrapped, in a letter sent to the home secretary and police chiefs on Friday.
Their research shows that the policy introduced in August led to the term “asylum seeker” appearing in articles on serious crime five times more than before the policy change.
The groups say the public is being given a harmful impression that falsely links criminality with ethnicity or migration status. That in turn is helping to further tear at society’s fabric by feeding prejudice.
The letter says: “This guidance, which encourages police forces to disclose the ethnicity and nationality of suspects charged in high-profile cases, is having a devastating impact on our country, harming our communities …
“The guidance was offered as an attempt to dispel misinformation … In practice it has had the opposite effect, becoming a catalyst for crime reporting reminiscent of the 1970s and 1980s – reviving a focus on race and migration status.”
The policy change was decided in August by the College of Policing, which sets standards in policing, and the National Police Chiefs’ Council.
Far-right social media accounts had falsely claimed that the Southport attack in 2024 was committed by an asylum seeker, leading police to say the attacker was a British national. That fuelled largely far-right accusations of two-tier policing, namely that police were only releasing ethnicity and race details when suspects were not asylum seekers.
The letter says: “Increasingly, a suspect’s ethnicity or country of origin appears to be treated as more important than the crime itself, or the experiences of victims, fostering a dangerous and misleading conflation between race, migration and criminality.”
The call for the policy to be scrapped is supported by Amnesty International UK, the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association, the chair of the Independent Scrutiny & Oversight Board for police, the National Police Race Action Plan, the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, Jewish Women’s Aid, Liberty, the Muslim Council of Britain and Inquest.
The research underpinning the concern of the groups compared use of terms such as asylum seeker in 2023, before the policy change, and then in 2025, after the change.
“Our snapshot analysis … shows an increase in the use of descriptors such as certain foreign nationality, asylum status and ethnicity in crime reporting. For example, the term ‘asylum seeker’ in articles on serious crime increased by five times,” the letter says.
“These findings indicate a pattern in which the ethnicity and migration status of people charged – or more broadly accused of unlawful behaviour – is increasingly communicated in ways that represent people of colour as inherently criminal.
“This is extremely dangerous and may be seen to encourage the public to perceive ethnicity and migration status as significant factors in the commission of crime. There is … no credible academic evidence to support this perception. As a result, the public is being presented with a false and harmful impression that links ethnicity or migration status with criminality.”
A College of Policing spokesperson said: “The police are operating in a challenging environment where there is now a requirement for the release of accurately, timely information to prevent a vacuum and the spread of mis- and disinformation.
“The current interim guidance says information confirming the nationality or ethnicity of someone can be released if it is part of a high-profile or sensitive investigation where there is a policing purpose for doing so. This includes a risk to public safety such as rising community tension. There should also be a significant level of media or social media interest before the information is released.”
Some forces have decided to release race and nationality details on arrest. One recent case was a mass stabbing on a train, when British Transport Police (BTP) publicised details of two suspects they had arrested, saying both were black. One was charged and the other was released without charge, and the racial details dominated hours of coverage. Runnymede said other far more relevant details, such as how many knives were used in the attack, were not revealed.
“Why was the number of weapons used not put out by the police, which is directly relevant to the crime, more so than the ethnicity and race of the suspects,” said Shabna Begum, the director of the Runnymede Trust.
A BTP spokesperson said the weapons details was released later. “BTP chose to release the ethnicity and nationality of two arrested men in this high-profile case in the interests of transparency and to alleviate the spread of damaging misinformation and speculation,” the spokesperson said.

 

[Made In Wales]

The SNP will benefit from not being English. Scottishness is a disease which attacks the brain. No matter how much the SNP destroys Scotland a large number of people will vote for it because they are not English. Even when it was ran by a Pakistani closet Islamist they voted for it.

If Reform want to win big in Scotland they need a big Scottish personality in the party to lead things north of the boarder.

That won’t be allowed to happen as Farage has turned is tall poppy syndrome into his defining trait.

Time for Dankula then...

There are a few good Scottish Reform UK bods out there, but we'd need somebody like David Ross who was great when UKIP were riding high. I think he's joined the Scottish Libertarians.

Scotland is going to be more difficult to win over than Wales, though a lot of the old mining and steel towns there are likely to vote for Reform UK. The question is who will win the most seats there.

The SNP aren't popular, Scottish Labour aren't doing well, the Lib Dems and Greens aren't making too much progress and there are some seats which Reform UK have little to no chance of winning being realistic. Therefore, it will be very interesting to see which seats go to which party next time out.

Some news bits:

* EIGHT men arrested after 'attempted murder' of couple in their 60s in Newcastle

* Anti-migrant protesters urged not to pay council tax if asylum seekers are housed in local military barracks

* Rachel Reeves braces for nationwide anger as campaigners demand fuel duty stays frozen - 'Wrong measure'

* Archaeologists discover evidence of human life older than Stonehenge beneath iconic UK landmark

* German drug dealer allowed to stay in Britain because he does not speak GERMAN well enough to be sent back

* Tributes paid to mental health counsellor as Swindon murder probe continues

* Police descend on Bingham Aldi store in dead-of-night emergency call-out... for a cat

* 'Keir Starmer is the UK version of Joe Biden - I can't take Labour seriously,' Nana Akua says

* Earl Spencer 'infuriated' by the BBC as he accuses corporation of 'utterly outrageous' claim

* King Charles risks upsetting neighbours on Sandringham Estate with 'unpleasant odours'

* ITV sparks trans debate as Olympian Sharron Davies argues 'biology matters!' on Good Morning Britain

 

[FedPostalService]

Guardian says noticing is now racist.

https://archive.ph/CkW8F If it was up to me I’d deport everyone in these NGOs /charities to some shithole like India , Somalia or pakistan

But them not stating the ethnicity just lead to Coulter’s Law on steroids. These people are retards.

Time for Dankula then...

Good god, no. He’s already helped destroy UKIP and he didn’t even comment on the rape worthiness of Jess Philips.

Anti-migrant protesters urged not to pay council tax if asylum seekers are housed in local military barracks

I can’t stress how much you should not do this. The council will set bailiffs on you and bankrupt you. They literally want to see you broke, dead, your kids raped and brainwashed, and they think it’s funny.

They put you into default in council tax VERY quickly. I’ve speeded out before about this but under no circumstances do this as a form of protest.

For the love of god, stop voting Labour, Lib Dem, Tory, etc.

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

Police descend on Bingham Aldi store in dead-of-night emergency call-out... for a cat

No! Please tell me the cat is okay? Idgaf about foreigners struggling, but cats are a step too far.

 

[BongoMongo]

I can’t stress how much you should not do this. The council will set bailiffs on you and bankrupt you. They literally want to see you broke, dead, your kids raped and brainwashed, and they think it’s funny.

They put you into default in council tax VERY quickly. I’ve speeded out before about this but under no circumstances do this as a form of protest.

Absolutely this. I have a friend who changed bank accounts but didn't do that easy switch thingy? So her direct debits didn't follow over. She manually paid her council tax but did so short by £20.

You'd expect an email or a letter right? Hell no. She had, three weeks later, bailiffs (or enforcement agents, I'm unclear on if it was high or county court) show up with a writ of possession to seize goods or take £££. By that point costs had been added on sending the bill into the hundreds,she had a judgement against her, and she had an additional surcharge on her council tax bill.

Apparently this is a thing some councils do. Rakes them in a fucking fortune. Those bowling trips for Nbugu and Shabhanah don't come cheap.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

David Cameron had prostate cancer? The King does/did as well, how common is it or does all the child fucking they do give them a higher risk for it?
Also gotta say I love the variations of Unbongomongodrongo Shabananhannahmannah names in this thread lmfao keep em coming, I have to resist saying them out loud when discussing the hoards with people.

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

David Cameron had prostate cancer? The King does/did as well, how common is it or does all the child fucking they do give them a higher risk for it?
Also gotta say I love the variations of Unbongomongodrongo Shabananhannahmannah names in this thread lmfao keep em coming, I have to resist saying them out loud when discussing the hoards with people.

1 in 8 men get it, and it's one that shows up more the older you get. Cancer's a bitch, and all the wealth and power in the world won't stop her coming for you.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

I just hope we don't get any David Cameron revisionism. The Brexit referendum was probably the slimiest thing done in politics for generations: recognising that a core group of the publicwere anti-immigration so created a stacked referendum so that they'd lose, eat shit and accept the brand new Islamist Germans as part of the EU. Then, immediately after eating shit himself, he resigns and lets the Tory party import non-EU nationals as revenge for the public not voting the right way.

The lengths that people go today to claim that the Brexit vote WASN'T a vote against immigration is staggering.

 

[Coolio55]

I just hope we don't get any David Cameron revisionism. The Brexit referendum was probably the slimiest thing done in politics for generations: recognising that a core group of the publicwere anti-immigration so created a stacked referendum so that they'd lose, eat shit and accept the brand new Islamist Germans as part of the EU. Then, immediately after eating shit himself, he resigns and lets the Tory party import non-EU nationals as revenge for the public not voting the right way.

The lengths that people go today to claim that the Brexit vote WASN'T a vote against immigration is staggering.

On the plus side, even the most ardent of remoaners are admitting that rejoining the EU would offer zero benefits with a huge burden to boot.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

On the plus side, even the most ardent of remoaners are admitting that rejoining the EU would offer zero benefits with a huge burden to boot.

You'd be surprised. The average retard is linking literally every flaw including the rise of fas- sorry Reform as a consequence from leaving then EU.

Like it's incredible the lengths that people will go to completely ignore the damage that Covid did IMMEDIATELY followed by the Ukraine-Russia shitfest. I can just imagine Putin's advisers going "Don't worry, Europe wouldn't be retarded enough to tank their economies post-Covid by funding the Ukrainian war effort and cutting off cheap Russian gas" only to watch every European country shoot themselves in the foot over it.

 

[East_Clintwood]

There's also talk that Women Footballers are now demanding to play in stadia as good as what the Men play in - apparently this means that St. Helen's Stadium (Liverpool FC) and Leigh Stadium (Manchester United Women FC) 'aren't good enough'.

The Women's Super League just released "guidelines" for designing "Elite Women's Stadiums" because traditional football stadiums are too patriarchal or some shit. Naturally it's a combination of retarded buzzwords that they never explain, and retarded ideas: https://www.wslfootball.com/news/world-first-design-guidelines-for-elite-womens-stadiums-unveiled

- An appropriate number of WC provisions, moving from 80%/20% male/female to 45%/45%, with gender neutral facilities to be available (10%).

Lolgay

- Seat sizes and spacing in stands that are aligned to supporters’ needs.

Lolfat

- Future proofing for environmental/climate change both on and off the pitch.

What the fuck is this even supposed to mean?

 

[Made In Wales]

The Women's Super League just released "guidelines" for designing "Elite Women's Stadiums" because traditional football stadiums are too patriarchal or some shit. Naturally it's a combination of retarded buzzwords that they never explain, and retarded ideas: https://www.wslfootball.com/news/world-first-design-guidelines-for-elite-womens-stadiums-unveiled


Lolgay


Lolfat


What the fuck is this even supposed to mean?

They basically want larger versions of Dartford's eco-ground Princes Park.

1) Where are they going to be built, how much money is available, who are the developers, what land surveys will be done yadda yadda.

2) Hamplanets can stand down the front and block the balls from hitting kids in the front row - we'll call them 'Bellyboingers'.

3) This means that they want cages/3G which is shit and gay.

Cages detract from the atmosphere and Covid can 'hide' inside 3G. 3G also has been linked to burns and cancer, but playing on grass/desso literally is morally worse because Goblin Greta says so.